494 



CICHLLD.E. 



33. COEEMATODUS. 



Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 918, and 1898, p. 152 ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. 

 Zool. France, xvi. 1901, p. 349. 



Body moderately elongate ; scales cycloid ; two incomplete lateral 

 lines. Jaws very massive, with extremely broad bands of innumerable 

 minute club-shaped teeth with compressed oblique entire crowns ; 

 maxillary concealed under the prseorbital when the mouth is closed. 

 Dorsal with 16 spines, anal with 3. Vertebrae 32 (15-1-17). 



Lake Nyassa (Upper Shire River). 



Pig. 342. 



Corematodus shiranus. 

 Type (P. Z. S. 1896). 



1. COREMATODUS SHIRANUS. 

 Bouleng. tt. cc, p. 919, fig., and p. 152 ; Pellegr. I.e. 



Depth of body equal to length of head, 3 times in total length. 

 Head twice as long as broad, with curved upper profile ; snout broader 



