. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. 50 ;. 2. Prtcorbital serrated ; snout pointed; no palatine teetli. D. XV 10 ; A. VIII 11 15. J. o^j/?%«c/jM«, Blgr., p. 66. B. f!audal peduncle absent, dorsal and anal close to the caudal fin and forming a nearly continuous outline ; snout pointed. D. XVI-XVIII 0-12 ; A. IX-X 10-12 . 16. A. ocellatus, Pellegr., p. 67. 1. ANABAS CAPENSIS. Spirohranclvus capensis, Gar. & Val. Hist. Poiss. vii. p. 392, pi. cc. (1831); Val. in Cuv. Regno Anim. Illustr., Poiss. pi.
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. 50 ;. 2. Prtcorbital serrated ; snout pointed; no palatine teetli. D. XV 10 ; A. VIII 11 15. J. o^j/?%«c/jM«, Blgr., p. 66. B. f!audal peduncle absent, dorsal and anal close to the caudal fin and forming a nearly continuous outline ; snout pointed. D. XVI-XVIII 0-12 ; A. IX-X 10-12 . 16. A. ocellatus, Pellegr., p. 67. 1. ANABAS CAPENSIS. Spirohranclvus capensis, Gar. & Val. Hist. Poiss. vii. p. 392, pi. cc. (1831); Val. in Cuv. Regno Anim. Illustr., Poiss. pi. Ixxv. fig. 1 (1836) ; Castdn. M^m. Poiss. Afr. Austr. p. 36 (1861) ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. iii. p. 373 (1861) *. Anahas capensis, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi. 1905, p. 53. Depth of body 3 to 3j times in total length, length of head 2f to 3 times. Snout rounded, as long as eye, which is 4 to 5 times in length of head and 1 to IJ times in interorbital width; maxillary extending to Fi-. Aiiabas capensis, T3'pe, after Cuvier & Valenciennes, below anterior third or centre of eye; palatine teeth present; none of the bones of the head serrated; operculum with a notch, between two more or less obtuse spines. 8 or 9 short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XII-XIV 8-10; spines increasing in length to the ninth or tenth, which measures about | length of head; longest soft rays about ^ length of head. Anal VI-VII 8-11, similar to dorsal. Pectoral i to f length of head. Ventral not reaching anal. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle about 1^ times as long as deep, the distance between dorsal and caudal J to | length of head. Scales rugose, partly cycloid, partly ctenoid, 27-30 i=i ; lateral lines ^^. Olive-brown above, yellowish beneath, back sometimes spotted with blackish; three * The diagnosis given by Gilnther does not apply to the first of the three specimens enumerated by him, which belongs to the species here described as A. Please note that t
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