. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 158 round caudal peduncle. Yellowish, back darker; a blackish spot near the tip of the dorsal. Total length 60 millim. Algerian Sahara.—Types in Paris Museum. 1. One of the types. Pool of Ifedil; Capt. Cortier (G.) ; Paris Museum (E.). 153. BARBUS UNIT^NIATUS. Puntlus vittatus (non Day), Steind. Verh. Ges. Wien, xvi. 1866, p. 767, pi. xvii. fig. 2. Barbas unitceniatus, Giinth. Zool. Rec. 1866, p. 151, and Cat. Fish. vii. p
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 158 round caudal peduncle. Yellowish, back darker; a blackish spot near the tip of the dorsal. Total length 60 millim. Algerian Sahara.—Types in Paris Museum. 1. One of the types. Pool of Ifedil; Capt. Cortier (G.) ; Paris Museum (E.). 153. BARBUS UNIT^NIATUS. Puntlus vittatus (non Day), Steind. Verh. Ges. Wien, xvi. 1866, p. 767, pi. xvii. fig. 2. Barbas unitceniatus, Giinth. Zool. Rec. 1866, p. 151, and Cat. Fish. vii. p. 103 (1868) ; M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897, p. 151. Depth of body 3 to 3f times in total length, length of head 3J to 4 times. Snout rounded, as long as or shorter than eye, which is 3 to 3^ times in length of head; interorbital width 3 times in length of head ; mouth small, subinferior; lips moderate; two barbels on each side, posterior longer than anterior and as long as or a little longer than eye. Fiff. Barbus unitceniatus. Type, after Steindachner (I. c). Dorsal III 8, equally distant from snout or eye and from caudal, border straight or slightly concave; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, nearly as long as head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral a little shorter than head, not reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle If to 2 times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 30-3.: 4^64 4J-o£' 2A-3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Brown above, yellowish beneath, with a more or less distinct dark lateral band which may end in a round. 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, George Albert, 1858-1937. London : Printed by order of the Tr
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