. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. BARBUS. 177 peduncle; dorsal scales rough with minute spinose nuptial tubercles. Brown abo^/e, whitish beneath, the scales on the sides darker in the centre ; an ill-defined dark lateral band. Total length 110 millim. Cape Colony. 1. Ad. Groote R., Sleytlerville. Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist (P.). 2-5. Ad. & yg-. Le Roux R., Ondtsloon. „ 174. BARBUS ANOPLUS. M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897, p. 151. Depth of body ':5| to 4 times in total length, length of head 4 times. Snout
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. BARBUS. 177 peduncle; dorsal scales rough with minute spinose nuptial tubercles. Brown abo^/e, whitish beneath, the scales on the sides darker in the centre ; an ill-defined dark lateral band. Total length 110 millim. Cape Colony. 1. Ad. Groote R., Sleytlerville. Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist (P.). 2-5. Ad. & yg-. Le Roux R., Ondtsloon. „ 174. BARBUS ANOPLUS. M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897, p. 151. Depth of body ':5| to 4 times in total length, length of head 4 times. Snout rounded, 3 to 3| times in length of head; eye 3 (young) to 4^ times in length of head, interorbital width 3 times; mouth terminal Ficf. Bat'hus anojjlus. Port Elizabeth. or subinferior ; lips moderate; a single barbel on each side, J (young) to 1 diameter of eye. Dorsal III 7 (rarely 6), equally distant from occiput and from caudal, border straight; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, a little shorter than head. Anal III 5, not reachinjr caudal. Pectoral a little shorter than head, not reaching ventral; base of latter entirely or partly in advance of dorsal. Caudal peduncle twice as long as deep. Scales radiatcly striated, 32-36 %t^, 3^-4^ between lateral line and ventral, 12-14 round caudal peduncle. Brown above, whitish beneath, the scales often darker in the centre ; a blackish lateral streak from above origin of lateral line to root of caudal. Total length 80 millim. Eastern parts of Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony, Trans- vaal.—Types i'l Amsterdam University 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
Size: 2316px × 1079px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorbri, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectfishes
