. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 44 CYPRINIDJ^.. reaching caudal. Pectoral | length of head, not reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle IJ to If times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 27-30 ~, 2^-6. Barbus baiesii. Type (P. Z. S. 1903). ^. between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Brown above, scales darker at the base, yellowish or white beneath; tins greyish. Total length 340 millim. Kribi River, South Cameroon ; Ogowe, 1. Type. Kribi
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 44 CYPRINIDJ^.. reaching caudal. Pectoral | length of head, not reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle IJ to If times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 27-30 ~, 2^-6. Barbus baiesii. Type (P. Z. S. 1903). ^. between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Brown above, scales darker at the base, yellowish or white beneath; tins greyish. Total length 340 millim. Kribi River, South Cameroon ; Ogowe, 1. Type. Kribi R. G. L. Bates, Esq. [O. 2-7. Ad., ligr., & yg. „ „ 2-i. BARBUS EUMYSTUS. Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvii. 1906, p. 565, and Fish. Nile, p. 215, pi. xxxviii. fig. 1 (19^07). Depth of body equal to length of head, nearly 4 times in total length. Snout rounded, 3 times in length of head; eye 5 times in length of head, interorbital width a little over 3 times ; mouth inferior, its width 4| times in length of head ; lips well developed, lower continuous across chin and forming a small rounded median lobe ; two barbels on each side, equal, 2J diameters of eye. Dorsal IV 9, equally distant from priEoperculum and from caudal, border strongly concave; last simple ray strong, bony, not serrated, straight, f length of head. Anal III 5, nearly reaching caudal. Pectoral a little shorter than head, not reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle If times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 31 ^,2^ between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal pednnclc. 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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