Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . FiG. 78.—Barbus longiceps. After Tristram. headed) indicates. This species is peculiar to the Lake of Galileeand the river Jordan and, according to Tristram (1884), is oneof the most abundant of the many abundant species in the is noteworthy, too, that it is also one of the best kinds forthe table. A peculiar genus (Capoeta), related to the barbels, is distin-guished by the transverse inferior mouth and by the branches of the. Fig. 79.—Capoeta fratercula. After Heckel. lower bent inwards in front and with the anterior edge invested ina subcorneou
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . FiG. 78.—Barbus longiceps. After Tristram. headed) indicates. This species is peculiar to the Lake of Galileeand the river Jordan and, according to Tristram (1884), is oneof the most abundant of the many abundant species in the is noteworthy, too, that it is also one of the best kinds forthe table. A peculiar genus (Capoeta), related to the barbels, is distin-guished by the transverse inferior mouth and by the branches of the. Fig. 79.—Capoeta fratercula. After Heckel. lower bent inwards in front and with the anterior edge invested ina subcorneous sheath. It is richly represented by species from nearthe confines of Europe to Central Asia, and no less than sevenspecies occur in Palestine. In that holy land one of the species(Capoeta fratercula) has become the recipient of exceptional atten- gill] noteworthy EXTRA-EUROPEAN CYPRINIDS 323 tion. Tristram tells that at the Algerian village of Deichun, nearSafed in Galilee, there is a large fountain full of this species. Thesefish are looked upon by the Arabs as sacred to Mohammed, and theywill on no account allow any one to take them. A little to the northof Tripoli also, at the shrine of Sheikh el Bedawi, is a copious spring,with a large basin and streams flowing from it, choked with thesefishes, which seem piled up in layers, with hardly space to are an object of veneration, and are always fed by the worship-ers. They follow in masses any visitor as
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