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53879

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Order: Osteoglossiformes
Family: Gymnarchidae
Species: Gymnarchus niloticus   nilgädda
Cat No: NRM 53879. N=1
Determiner: Svensson, GSO 1933
Length: 235 mm TL
Preparation: Liquid
Continent/Ocean: Africa
Country: GAMBIA State/Province: MacCarthy Island Div
District: Municipality:
River Drainage: Lake Basin:
Ocean:
Locality: Gambia River drainage: MacCarthy Island area
Field Number: SVE-1931B
Leg: Svensson, GSO & Rudebeck, B
Date: 1931

Object remarks: This is possibly one of the three specimens 230-270 mm mentioned by Svensson on page 39 (bottom). NRM 53878-53879 previously in one lot (ZI P 956) with some catalogue number paper tags: P 956 (=Gymnarchus niloticus), P 970 (Cynoglossus senegalensis), and P 333 (Serrasalmo scapularis) and field number tags: 237 (Protopterus with one forked pelvic fin), 1019, and 1020 (both Polypterus senegalensis 25 oct 1931) /EIÅ, 2009
Locality remarks: Material actually arrived in 2006 as 2006-043

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