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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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80 millim. Nyong River District, South Cameroon.—Types in Vienna Museum. ^r- ? 4. VARICORHINUS BESO. P Varicorhinus beso, Riipp. Mas. Senckenb. ii. p. 21, pi. iii. fig. 2 (1837) ; Boaleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) x. 1902, p. 422, and Fish. Nile, p. 191, pi. xxxiii. (1907).Chondrostoma dillonii, Onv. & Vol. Hist. Poiss. xvii. p. 404 (1844).Labeo varicorhinus, Guv. & Val. t. c. p. 491.Dillonia dillonii, Heckel, Russeggers Reis. Egypt, iii. p. 285 (1846) ; Vincig. Ann. Mus. Genova, xviii. 1883, p. 699.Dillonia abi/ssinica, Heckel, t. c. p. 329.Systomus beso, Heckel, t. c. p. 328.Capoeta dillonii, Gunth. Gat. Fish. vii. p. 81 (1868) ; Blanf. Geo!. Zool. Abyssin. p. 460 (1870).Barbus beso, Gunth. t. c. p. 148.Capoeta beso, Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1905, p. 291. Depth of body 3 to 3-g- times in total lengih, length of head 4 to 5times. Snout broad, swollen, its length 2f to 3^ times in length ofhead ; eye supero-lateral, its diameter 4 (young) to 6 times in length of Pig. 268.
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Varicorhinus beso.Lake Tsana (F. N.). g. head ; interorbital region convex, its width 2 to 1\ times in length ofhead ; mouth wide, its width as great as or a little greater than inter* YAKICORHINUS. 357 orbital width ; a minute barbel at angle of mouth ; horny conical orsubcorneal tubercles in 2 or 3 series round snout and below eye, thelargest on the sides. Dorsal IV 9-10, nearer occiput than root ofcaudal, originating a little in advance of ventrals, border not or butslightly emarginate, sometimes even slightly convex; last simple rayvery strong, bony, smooth, more or less curved, its bony part usually aslong as or a little shorter than head in young, f to f length of head inadult. Anal III 5, longest ray a little shorter than head. Pectoralnearly as long as head, not reaching ventral. Caudal deeply forked.Caudal peduncle If to 2 times as long as deep. Scales 30-35 ;Fp ^~^between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Grey orgreen above, base of scales blue, yellowish b

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