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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: , deeply emarginate, longest ray as long as 00^ CYPKIN1D.E. head. Anal II 5, reaching root of caudal. Pectoral hardly as long ashead, not reaching ventral, the first ray of which is below 7th of dorsal.Caudal deeply notched, crescentic when fully spread out. Caudalpeduncle nearly as long as deep. Scales 38-39 i=£, 4 between lateralline and root of ventral, lb round caudal peduncle. Purplish above,lighter beneath : scales edged with yellow. Total length 190 millim. Congo.—Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 1. Yg., one of the types. Matadi, Lower Congo. 2. Yg. Stanley Pool. Capt. Wilverth (C.M. De Mease (C). 27. LABEO GREENII.Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. p. 29, pi. viii. fig. 4 (1902). Body feebly compressed, its depth 5 to 5^ times in total length.Head 4 to 4-^ times in total length, its width § to f its length; snoutobtusely pointed, very prominent; eye supero-lateral, in second half ofhead, 4 (young) to 5| times in length of head, 2 to 3 times in inter- Fig. 251. Vi>.--i:

Text Appearing After Image: -v S&&& Labeo greeniiType (A. M. C). h orbital width ; width of mouth, with lips, a little more than half lengthof head ; upper lip entire, lower very feebly fringed, both with transverseplicee on the inner surface; rostral flap very feebly denticulate ; a minutebarbel, hidden in folds of skin ; snout nearly entirely covered with largespinose tubercles in adult. Dorsal III 10, a little nearer caudal thanend of snout, notched, longest ray 1$ to If times length of head. LABEO. 33-5 Anal II 5, reaching root of caudal. Pectoral nearly as long as head, notreaching ventral, the first ray of which falls below 5th or 6th rayof dorsal. Caudal with deep angular notch. Caudal peduncle as longas deep. Scales 37-38 ^Fyf, 4 between lateral line and root of ventral,16 round caudal peduncle. Dark olive, belly white ; a large black spoton caudal peduncle ; caudal blackish, with the lower edge whitish. Total length 270 millim. Upper Congo and Ubanghi.—Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 1. H

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