. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. CHELJETHIOPS. 215 1. CHEL^THIOPS BIBIE. Leuciscus bible, Joannis, Mag. de Zool. 1835, iv. pi. iv. Pelecus bibie, Heckel, Russegger's Reise Egypt, iii. p. 329 (1846). Barilius bibie, Griinther, Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 264 (1869). ChelcetUops bibie, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) x. 1902, p. 263 ; Werner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cxv. i. 1906, p. 1097 * ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 271, pi. xlviii. fig. 5 (1907). Depth of body 4 to 5 times in total leng
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. CHELJETHIOPS. 215 1. CHEL^THIOPS BIBIE. Leuciscus bible, Joannis, Mag. de Zool. 1835, iv. pi. iv. Pelecus bibie, Heckel, Russegger's Reise Egypt, iii. p. 329 (1846). Barilius bibie, Griinther, Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 264 (1869). ChelcetUops bibie, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) x. 1902, p. 263 ; Werner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cxv. i. 1906, p. 1097 * ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 271, pi. xlviii. fig. 5 (1907). Depth of body 4 to 5 times in total length, length of head 4 to 4§ Fig. Chelcethiops bibie. Assuan. times. Head 2 to 2j times as long as broad; snout acutely pointed, slightly projecting beyond mouth, not longer than eye, which is con- tained o to 4 times in length of head ; interorbital width equal to diameter of eye or a little greater; mouth extending to below centre of eye ; suborbital bones nearly entirely covering cheek, second very narrow and extending to below centre of eye. Gill-rakers few and very short. Dorsal III 7, above anterior half of anal, twice as far from occiput as from base of caudal; first branched ray longest, f to § length of head. Anal III 16-19 j first branched ray longest and as long as or a little shorter than that of dorsal. Pectoral acutely pointed, longer thau head, extending beyond root of ventral. Caudal deeply forked. Caudal peduncle 1| to 2 times as long as deep. Scales with radiating striae, o/-41 |irS 1-li between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Uniform silvery, brownish olive on the back; fins yellowish white. Total length 55 millim. Lower Nile to Bahr-el-Gebel; Webi Shebeli.—Type apparently lost. 1-2. Ad. Barrage near Kalioub, N. o£ Cairo. Dr. F. Werner (P. 3-9. Hgr. Near Lnxor. L. Loat, Esq. (('.). 10-13. Ad. Between Luxor and Assuan. „ *'. Not the figure, which, .through an oversight, is taken from a Barilins Please note that these
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