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KANNUMA MORMYRUS. 



Mormyms Kannume. M. rostro decuwo, cauda bifida ohfusa, 

 pinna doi'sali radiis sexaginta-tribus. 



Mormyms with decurvate snout, bifid obtuse tail, and sixty- 

 three rays in the dorsal fin. 



Mormyrus Kannume. Forsk. Arab. Lin. Gmel. 



Colour whitish : body much compressed : lower 

 lip longer than the upper: lateral line strait: dorsal 

 fm half the length of the back. Native of the Nile. 



SHARP-SNOUTED MORMYRUS. 



Mormyrus Oxyrhynchus, M. rostro recto, maxilla inferiort 



longiore, pinna dorsali longitudine dorsi. 

 Mormyrus with strait snout, lower jaw longer than the upper, 



and dorsal fin running the whole length of the back. 

 Mormyre Oxyrhynche. Cepede. 5. p. 



Native of the Nile : supposed by Mons'^. Geoifroy 

 -to have been the O.vyrhynchus of the ancients. 



ANGUILLIFORM MORMYRUS. 



Mormyrus Anguilloides. M. rostro acuto, maxillis (tqualibus, 

 pinna dorsali radiis viginlisex, cauda bifida obtusa. 



Mormyrus with sharp snout, equal jaws, twenty- six rays in 

 the dorsal fin, and bifid acute tail. 



Mormyrus anguilloides. Lin. Gmel. Mormyre Dendera, 

 Cepede. 5. p. 6lQ. 



Dorsal fin placed opposite the anal^ and some- 

 what shorter than that fm. Native of the Nile. 



