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Title: Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) Year: 1909 (1900s) Authors: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937 Subjects: British Museum (Natural History) Fishes Freshwater animals Publisher: London : Printed by order of the Trustees : Sold by Longmans & Co., B. Quaritch, Dulau & Co., and at the British Museum (Natural History) Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Text Appearing Before Image: 41 J^, 6, 20-22 . . 36. L. barbatus, Blgr., p. 342. 304 CYPKINIDJE. 1. LABEO NILOTICUS.Cyprinus niloticus, Forskal, Descr. Anim. p. 71 (1775) ; Geoffr. Descr. Egypte, Poiss. pi. ix. fig. 2 (1809).Labeo niloticus, I. Geoffr. op. cit. p. 282 (1827) ; Vincig. Ann. Mus. Genova, xxxix. 1898, p. 259 ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 163, pi. xxvii. fig. 1 (1907).Labeo niloticus, part., Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xvi. p. 338 (1842; ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 47 (1868), and Pethericks Trav. ii. p. 259 (1869).Labeo vulgaris, Heckel, Russeggers Reise Egypt, iii. p. 303, pi. xx. fig. 3 (1846). Body strongly compressed, its depth 3^ (adult) to i\ times (young)in total length. Head nearly 5 to 5| times in total length in adult,4 to 4\ times in young, its width f to f its length; snout broadlyrounded; eye nearer end of snout than posterior border of head,perfectly lateral, 4\ to 6 times in length of head in adult, 3 to 4 timesin young; interorbital ^idth \ to f length of head; width of mouth, Fig. 228.

Text Appearing After Image: Labeo niloticus.Nile Delta (F. N.). £. with lips, 2f to 4 times in length of head; both lips with several rowsof rounded or subcorneal papillee, those of the outer row forming adistinct fringe; edge of rostral flap entire; a minute barbel, more orless hidden under folds of skin ; tubercles on the snout, or their pore-like scars, numerous but very small. Dorsal III 14-17, equally distantfrom nostrils or end of snout and from caudal, upper edge usuallymore or less distinctly concave, rarely straight or slightly convex, last LABEO. 305 simple ray and first branched ray usually longest and as long as orlonger than head. Anal III 5, not reaching root of caudal. Pectoralnearly as long as or a little longer than head, not reaching ventral, thefirst ray of which falls below 6th or 7th branched ray of dorsal. Caudaldeeply emarginate, crescentic when fully spread out. Caudal pedunclebut little longer than deep in adult, 1^ to 1^ times as long as deep in 8-—9- young. Scales 41-45 girroi, 5-6

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