. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Freshwater Fishes of South Africa. 379 deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 40 \, 3 between lateral line and ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. Colour (of preserved specimen), greyish brown above, light yellow below. One specimen, 345 mm. in length, from Kimberley Reservoir, Cape Province. 7. BARBUS ELEPHANTIS, Blgr. Bouleng., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1907, p. 310, fig., and Cat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 78, fig. 55 (1911). Depth of body 3y!^ to 3^ times in total length excluding caudal, length of hea
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Freshwater Fishes of South Africa. 379 deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 40 \, 3 between lateral line and ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. Colour (of preserved specimen), greyish brown above, light yellow below. One specimen, 345 mm. in length, from Kimberley Reservoir, Cape Province. 7. BARBUS ELEPHANTIS, Blgr. Bouleng., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1907, p. 310, fig., and Cat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 78, fig. 55 (1911). Depth of body 3y!^ to 3^ times in total length excluding caudal, length of head 3| to 41 times. Snout rounded, 3 to 3 ^ times in length of head ; eye 4? to 5 times in length of head, interorbital width 2/'0- times ; mouth inferior, feebly curved, its width 3f\ times. FIG. 39.—Barbus clephantis. £. in length of head ; lower jaw with a sharp edge, lower lip restricted to the sides. Two barbels on each side, anterior -fa to i diameter of eye, posterior 1 to 1^ times. Dorsal iv 8; equally distant from eye and from root of caudal, border concave ; last simple ray strong, bony, not serrated, its rigid part f to f length of head. Anal iii 5; not reaching caudal. Pectoral f to -i length of head, not reaching ventral ; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 1A times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 36-381|, 3-3i between lateral line and ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. Colour (of preserved specimens), silvery, dark above, lighter beneath. Two specimens, 193 mm. 213 mm. in length respectively, from M'Fongozi, Zululand (W. E. Jones). It is also reported from the 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 South African Museum; South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc. , South African Museum, etc. ]
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