. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 180 CYPxUNlD.^. 185. BARBUS PUMILUS. Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. 1901, p. 444, and Fish. Nile, p. 259, pi. xlviii. fig. 2 (1907). Depth of body equal or nearly equal to length of head, about 3 times in total length. Snout rounded, a little shorter than eye, which is o times in length of head and a little less than interorbital width; mouth small, terminal; lips feebly developed; no barbels. Dorsal III 8, equally distant from eye and from caudal, border feebly concav
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 180 CYPxUNlD.^. 185. BARBUS PUMILUS. Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. 1901, p. 444, and Fish. Nile, p. 259, pi. xlviii. fig. 2 (1907). Depth of body equal or nearly equal to length of head, about 3 times in total length. Snout rounded, a little shorter than eye, which is o times in length of head and a little less than interorbital width; mouth small, terminal; lips feebly developed; no barbels. Dorsal III 8, equally distant from eye and from caudal, border feebly concave ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, a little shorter than head. Fi^. 164. •. Barbus 2>uinilus. Type (F. N.). x 2. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral shorter than head, reaching or nearly reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle IJ to 1| times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 19-21 ^, IJ between lateral line series, which is formed of very deep scales, and ventral, 9 round caudal peduncle; lateral line reduced to 3 or 4 tubules. Yellowish above, scales edged with black, white beneath; a black streak on each side of the head, passing through the eye ; a blackish vertical streak at the root of the anal; dorsal and anal with a red bar and one or two black ones. Total length 26 millim. AVhite Nile. 1-10. T\ pe:^. Lake No. L. Loat, Esq. (C). 5. RASBORA. Bleok. Nat. Tijdschr. Nedeil. Ind. xx. ISlJO, p. 435, and Atlas Ichtliyol. iii. \u 118 (18G3) ; Guiitli. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 193 (LSOS). Body more or less compressed, with rounded belly, covered with large or moderate scales. Lateral line low down, following the ventral outline of the body and running i'^ong the lower part of the caudal 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 work.
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