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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: from caudal, upper edgestraight or convex, longest ray 1| to 1\ times length of head. Anal LABEO. oZO II5, reaching root of caudal. Pectoral as long as or slightly longer thanhead, not reaching ventral, the first ray of which falls below 3rd or 4thbranched ray of dorsal. Caudal deeply notched, crescentic when fullyspread out. Caudal peduncle as long as deep or slightly deeper thanlong. Scales 32-34 ^, 3 between lateral line and root of caudal, 12 roundcaudal peduncle. Dark olive-brown, lighter beneath. Total length 290 millim. Lagos, Gold Coast. 1-3. Ad. & hgr., types. Lagos. 4-6. Hgr. & yg., typ«s Nyankoma, Gold Coast of L. walkeri. H. T. Ussber, Esq. (C).R. B.N. Walker, Esq.(C.);Dr. A. Giinther (P.). 20. LABEO MACROSTOMA. Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 36, pi. six. fig. 1 (1898), and Poiss. Bass.Congo, p. 216 (1901). Body strongly compressed, its depth 3-^ to 4-^ times in total length.Head 4 to 4^ times in total length, its width f its length; snout rather Fig. 244.

Text Appearing After Image: Labco macrostoma.Type (A. M. C). |. pointed, very pi-ominent, swollen at the end in adult; eye supero-lateral,in second half of head, 4 (young) to 6 times in length of head, 2 to4 times in interorbital width; width of mouth, with lips, 1-| to 2 timesin length of head; upper lip entire, lower fringed with small papillae,both with transverse plicae on inner surface; edge of rostral flap denti-culate ; a minute barbel hidden under folds of skin ; snout of adultnearly entirely covered with spinose tubercles. Dorsal III 10, a little 326 ctpuinid/F. nearer caudal than end of snout, upper edge not or but feebly notchedin adult, more distinctly in young, longest rays as long as or longer thanhead. Anal II 5. extending beyond root of caudal. Pectoral as long ashead, not reaching ventral, the first ray of which is below 9th or 10thray of dorsal. Caudal deeply forked. Caudal peduncle nearly as longas deep. Scales 38-39 sjErr, 4 between lateral line and root of ventral, a °2 16-18 round caudal p

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