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THE FUE.Sli-WATER FISUES OF EUROPE. 



Barbus plebejus (Valenciennes). 



D. 3/8, A. 3/5, V^ 9. Lateral line (HI— 75, transverse 14— 17/1 !■. 



This species (Fitr. 47) is limited in its distribution to Italy and Dalmatia, and 

 said by Graells to occur in Spain. It has the body thicker and more rounded, 

 with a shorter blunter snout, and the scales are smaller than in the preceding- 



Fig-. 47.— HARKUS PLEHEJVS (v.^LENc). 



species. The differences in the tin rays are sufficiently unimportant to justify 

 Filippi in regarding- it as but a variety of JJ. vnhjarh. Dr. Giinther, however, 

 enters it as a good species, though he would unite with it the Barbies eq/ws 



(Fig. 4S) of the x\ustrian ichthyologists, while hesitating to billow Canestrini 

 in uniting with it the Barhiis eqnes of Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



The head is less than a quarter the length of the body and alxnit one-lifth 

 the length of the fish. At the gill-apertures it is twice as long as broad. 



