. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 42 CYPEINID,?:. reaching ventral; latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle If times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 35 ^, 3 between ¥lr. Barhus mento. Type. I. lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Olive above, yellowish beneath ; fins greyish. Total leiigth 300 millim. Gota River (Hawash), Southern Ethiopia. 1. Type. Gota R. at Murmasa, Adal, .5000 ft. Mr. E. Degen (C). 22. BARBUS REINII. Guntli. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) xiii. 1
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 42 CYPEINID,?:. reaching ventral; latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle If times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 35 ^, 3 between ¥lr. Barhus mento. Type. I. lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Olive above, yellowish beneath ; fins greyish. Total leiigth 300 millim. Gota River (Hawash), Southern Ethiopia. 1. Type. Gota R. at Murmasa, Adal, .5000 ft. Mr. E. Degen (C). 22. BARBUS REINII. Guntli. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) xiii. 1874, p. 2;}1, pi. xiii.,and Nov. Zool. ix. 1902, p. 447. Depth of body equal to or a little less than length of head, 3| to 4 times in total length. Snout rounded, 3 to 3J times in length of head ; eye 4 (young) to 8 times in length of head, interorbital width 2J tg 3 times ; mouth inferior, its width 3 to i\ times in length of head ; lips well developed, lower continuous across the chin, forming a short rounded lobe; two barbels on each side, subequal, or posterior a little longer than anterior and 2 to 3 diameters of eye (IJ to If in young). Dorsal III-IV 8, equally distant from occiput or eye and from root of caudal, border concave ; last simple ray strong, bony, not serrated, its ossified part about \ length of head in adult, f to f in young. Anal III 5, usually not reaching caudal. Pectoral f to | length of head, not reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle Ih to 1| times as long as deej). Scales longitudinally Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Boulenger, Albert, 1858-1937. Codicote, Herts. [Eng : Wheldon and Wesley
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