. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 806 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM strong, broad, rounded, prominent, more or less projecting; upper lip moderately protractile; rostral and maxillary barbels short, length from I/2 to 1 eye diameter; interorbital broad, gently curved from side to side or flat. Pharyngeal teeth 2, 3, 5 - 5, 3, 2, all more or less hooked at tips, with age sometimes worn as truncate cylinders. Scales 24 to 26 in lateral line; 6 above, 4 below, 11 predorsal, 13 around caudal peduncle. Lateral line conspicuous, gently curved to- ward belly in forwa
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 806 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM strong, broad, rounded, prominent, more or less projecting; upper lip moderately protractile; rostral and maxillary barbels short, length from I/2 to 1 eye diameter; interorbital broad, gently curved from side to side or flat. Pharyngeal teeth 2, 3, 5 - 5, 3, 2, all more or less hooked at tips, with age sometimes worn as truncate cylinders. Scales 24 to 26 in lateral line; 6 above, 4 below, 11 predorsal, 13 around caudal peduncle. Lateral line conspicuous, gently curved to- ward belly in forward half. D. IV, 8, fourth spine smooth or nearly so and comparatively slender, 1% to 2 in head; A. in, 6, truncate, height equals or l^ less dorsal height; caudal % to %o of head, deeply forked, lobes pointed; pectoral i, 15, length 1% to II/2; ventral i, 7 or 8, length 2 to 21 FIGURE 27.—Puntius herrei (Fowler) : Type ( No. 93138). Dorsal surface dark green, changing to pale or whitish on sides and overcast with brassy or golden, especially on belly. Top of head and snout blackish, with pearly epidermal spots and also on sub- orbital and opercle. Length, 315 mm. (Herre.) Lake Lanao. PUNTIUS HERREI (Fowler) Figure 27 Barius herrei Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 85, p. 280, fig. 41, 1934 (type locality: Vicar market, Lake Lanao, Mindanao).—Roxas and Maktin, Dept. Agr. Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 40, 1937 (reference). Depth 31/2 to 34^; head 33/5 to 334, width 2 to 2i/s. Snoult 33/5 to 41/10 in head; eye 34^ to 41/^, 1 to 1% in snout, li^ to 1% in inter- orbital; maxillary largely concealed, reaches eye, length 3I/3 to 3% in head; front barbel 21^ to 2% in eye, hind barbel 4% to 4:% in head; lower jaw slightly included within upper; interorbital 3 to 3l^ in head, convex; suborbitals cover half of cheek to preopercle ridge. Gill rakers 3 + 12, short, lanceolate, 2% in gill filaments, which ll^ in eye. Pharyngeal teeth 2, 3, 5-5, 3, 2, slightly
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