Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . irst ray of which falls under 3rdor 4th branched ray of dorsal. Caudal notched, crescentic. Caudalpeduncle deeper than long. Scales 37 |f, 4 between lateral line androot of ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. Dark purple, scales edgedwith dark green. Total length ]70 millim. Upper Congo.—Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 12. LABEO COUBIE. Eiipp. Fortsetz. Beschr. n. Fische Nil, p. 11, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1832) ; Oiiv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xvi. p. 344 (1843) ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 170, pis. xxix., xxx., & xxxi.
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . irst ray of which falls under 3rdor 4th branched ray of dorsal. Caudal notched, crescentic. Caudalpeduncle deeper than long. Scales 37 |f, 4 between lateral line androot of ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. Dark purple, scales edgedwith dark green. Total length ]70 millim. Upper Congo.—Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 12. LABEO COUBIE. Eiipp. Fortsetz. Beschr. n. Fische Nil, p. 11, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1832) ; Oiiv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xvi. p. 344 (1843) ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 170, pis. xxix., xxx., & xxxi. fig. 2 (1907).Labeo niloticus, part., Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. selti, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 345 ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lxi. i. 1870, p. 562, pi. vii. fig. niloticus, Heckel, Russeggers Reise Egypt, iii. p. 300, pi. xx. fig. 1 (1846); Peters, Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 46 (1868).Labeo coubie, part., Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 48 (1868), and Petheiicks Trav. ii. p. 260 (1869).? Labeo steindaclineri, Pfeff. Thierw. , Fische, p. 51 (1896). Fig. Labeo Nile (F. N.). f Body strongly compressed, its depth 3 to 3f times in total 4 to 4| times in total length in adult, 3 to 4 times in young, itswidth f to -| its length ; snout rounded, often more or less swollen, § to 318 CYPRINIDJL a length of head, at least as long as and often longer than postocularpart of head ; eye nearly perfectly lateral, \\ to 7 times in length ofhead in adult, 3 to 4 times in young ; interorbital width \ to f lengthof head; width of mouth, with lips, 2 to 3 times in length of head;lips not distinctly fringed on the edge, with small papilla? formingtransverse plicas on inner side ; rostral flap large, completely detachedat the sides, its edge entire or feebly denticulate; a minute barbel,usually hidden under folds of skin ; tubercles on the snout, or theircrater-like scars, much developed in adult. Dorsal III 12-13 (rarely11 or 14), equally distant from anteri
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