. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. BAEBUS. 153 feebly radiating strife* 29-31 ^tp, 2^-3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Dark green or olive above, yellowish beneath ; fins pale green. Fig. Barbus inermis. Type, after Peters (Reise Mossamb.). Total length 100 millim. Lower Zambesi and Limpopo Systems. 1-3. Ad. & hgr. Groot Olifant R., Transvaal. Major G. E. Bruce (P.). 147. BARBUS QUADRIPUNCTATUS. Barbus trimaculatus (non Peters\ Pfeff. Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. x. 2,1893, p
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ... Fishes; Freshwater animals. BAEBUS. 153 feebly radiating strife* 29-31 ^tp, 2^-3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Dark green or olive above, yellowish beneath ; fins pale green. Fig. Barbus inermis. Type, after Peters (Reise Mossamb.). Total length 100 millim. Lower Zambesi and Limpopo Systems. 1-3. Ad. & hgr. Groot Olifant R., Transvaal. Major G. E. Bruce (P.). 147. BARBUS QUADRIPUNCTATUS. Barbus trimaculatus (non Peters\ Pfeff. Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. x. 2,1893, p. 37. Barbus quadripunctatus, Pfeff. Thierw. , Fische, p. 64 (1896). Depth of body equal to length of head, 3| times in total length. Snout rounded, shorter than eye, which is 2§ times in length of head (young?); interorbital width 2J times in length of head; mouth small, inferior; lips moderate ; two barbels on each side, anterior a little shorter than posterior, which measures about J diameter of eye. Dorsal III 8, equally distant from eye and from caudal, border slightly concave ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, a little shorter than head. Anal II 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral § length of head, not reaching ventral; base of latter below middle of dorsal. Caudal peduncle nearly twice as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 27-30 ^f, 3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Silvery, back brownish; three or four small round blackish spots on each side, the last at base of caudal. Total length 35 millim. Eufu River (Kingani), German East Africa.—Types (probably young), in Hamburg Museum, examined. * In this respect the scales of this species may be said to establish a link between the two divisions of the genus adopted in the present 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 pe
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