Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . Labeo , after Peters (Reise Mossamb.). \. 4J between lateral line and root of caudal, 16 round caudal above, darker on the back, silvery white beneath; dorsal bluishblack, anal and caudal reddish black. Total length 330 rnillim. Zambesi.—Types in Berlin Museum. 520 CYPEINIDJE. 14. LABEO Proc. Zool. Soc. 1903, ii. p. 329, pi. xxix. Body strongly compressed, its depth 3£ to of times in total 4-g- to 4f times in total length, 1^ to lg- times as long as
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . Labeo , after Peters (Reise Mossamb.). \. 4J between lateral line and root of caudal, 16 round caudal above, darker on the back, silvery white beneath; dorsal bluishblack, anal and caudal reddish black. Total length 330 rnillim. Zambesi.—Types in Berlin Museum. 520 CYPEINIDJE. 14. LABEO Proc. Zool. Soc. 1903, ii. p. 329, pi. xxix. Body strongly compressed, its depth 3£ to of times in total 4-g- to 4f times in total length, 1^ to lg- times as long as broad ;snout rounded, its length | to a little less than \ that of head ; eyeperfectly lateral, 4-g- to 5^ times in length of head; interorbital width \length of head ; width of mouth, with lips, •§? to \ length of head ; lipswith small papillae forming transverse plicas ; lower lip with a fringeof conical papillae ; rostral flap large, with denticulate edge ; a minutebarbel in the corner of the mouth, hidden under folds of skin. Dorsal Pig. Laheo (P. 1903). f III 11-12, a little nearer end of snout than caudal, its upper edgeconcave, longest ray as long as or slightly longer than head. AnalIII 5, reaching or nearly reaching root of caudal. Pectoral as longas or a little longer than head, not quite reaching ventral, the firstray of which falls below 4th or 5th branched ray of dorsal. Caudaldeeply emarginate, crescentic when fully spread out. Caudal peduncle11 to 1-g- times as long as deep. Scales 89-40 gr^) 6 between lateralline and root of ventral, 16-18 round caudal peduncle. Olive above,whitish beneath ; fins greyish. LABEO. 321 Total length 320 millim. Modjo and Wabbi Rivers (Webi Shebeli), S. Ethiopia. 1-2. Types. Modjo R. Prof. 0. Neumann and Baron C. von Erlanger (C). 15. LABEO GREGORII. Gimth. Proc. Zool.^Soc. 1894, p. 90, pi. x. fig. B. Labeo bottegi, Vincig. Mus. Genova, (2) xvii. 1897, p. 358. Body strongly compressed, its depth 3
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