Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . ked,with pointed lobes. Caudal peduncle a little longer than deep. Scales 4k- 34 (, 3 between lateral line and root of ventral, 12 round caudalpeduncle. Olive-brown, lighter beneath. Total length 300 millim. Shari Elver (type in Paris Museum), Cameroon. 31. LABEO Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. p. 30, pi. viii. fig, 5 (1902). Body feebly compressed, its depth equal to or a little greater thanlength of head, 4 or 5 times in total length. Head 1{- to If times aslong as broad; snout rounded or ob
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . ked,with pointed lobes. Caudal peduncle a little longer than deep. Scales 4k- 34 (, 3 between lateral line and root of ventral, 12 round caudalpeduncle. Olive-brown, lighter beneath. Total length 300 millim. Shari Elver (type in Paris Museum), Cameroon. 31. LABEO Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. p. 30, pi. viii. fig, 5 (1902). Body feebly compressed, its depth equal to or a little greater thanlength of head, 4 or 5 times in total length. Head 1{- to If times aslong as broad; snout rounded or obtusely pointed, very pominent, with vol. i. r. CTPEmiD^. large spiny tubercles in the male; eye superolateral, nearer gill-openingthan end of snout, 4 times in length of head, If to 2 times in inter-orbital width; -width of mouth, with lips, 2 to 2\ times in length ofhead ; rostral flap not denticulated ; lower lip with very feebly denticu-lated edge, inner surface with numerous transverse plicae; a smallbarbel, hidden in the folds at side of mouth. Dorsal III 10, notched, Fig.
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