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CYPRiNODONTIDJE. 



15. FUNDULUS SJOESTEDTI. 



Lonnberg, 0£v. Ak. Forh. Stockh. 1895, p. 191 ; Rachow, Bl. Aq. Terr. 1911, 

 p. 101, fig.; Traber, t. c. p. 669, fig.; Arnold, Woch. Aq. Terr. 1911, 

 p. 137, fig. 



Dopth of body 4 to 4J times in total length, length of head %\ to 3§ 

 times. Head flat above ; snout short and broad, as long as eye ; mouth 

 directed upwards ; lower jaw projecting ; eye 3^ to 4 times in length of 

 head, nearly twice in interorbital width ; space between eye and lip very 

 narrow, the latter forming an angle fitting into a notch close to the 

 former. Dorsal 17-19, originating at equal distance from eye and from 



Fuiidulus sjoestedti. 



6 ?. Calabar. 



base of caudal ; longest (posterior) rays § to £ length of head. Anal 

 17-19, originating opposite or a little behind origin of dorsal. Pectoral 

 |- length of head, hardly reaching base of ventral, which is small and 

 midway between end of snout and base of caudal. Caudal rounded in 

 female, truncate, with or without some of the middle rays produced 

 into filaments in male. Caudal peduncle a little longer than deep. 

 33-36 scales in longitudinal series, 26-30 round body in front of 

 ventrals. Brownish, male with bright carmine-red markings, with 

 few oblique bands and streaks on the sides of the head, and spots and 

 vertical bars on the body; a red band round the chin; upper half of 

 caudal dark purplish or with longitudinal red bands, lower half whitish, 

 partly streaked, partly spotted, or with an oblique red band with 

 purplish outer edge ; a bright carmine-red band along the dorsal, which, 

 like the anal, may also be spotted with red. 



Total length 70 millim. 



Coast of Guinea to Cameroon. — Types in Stockholm Museum. 



