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Length 148 mm. [Type of the species in the zoological Museum 

 of Amsterdam]. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Bandar Baru !) ; collected by Dr. L. 

 Ph. de Bussy. 



18. Puntius Hamilton Buchanan. 



(Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes Ganges 1822, p. 310). 



Oblong, more or less compressed. Snout generally short and 

 obtuse, without pores or tubercles in indo-australian species. 

 Mouth terminal or subinferior. Upper jaw more or less pro- 



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Fig. 70. Puntius brevis (Blkr.) X 2. 



tractile. Lips generally thin, continuous. The postlabial groove 

 which runs parallel with the lips, is interrupted in the middle 

 of the lower jaw. Lower lip sometimes separated by a super- 



Fig. 71. Puntms bd'inka (Blkr.) Pharyngeal teeth. >< 4- 



ficial furrow from the lower jaw, which has no bony covering. 

 Eyes sometimes with a narrow circular gelatinous membrane. 

 Suborbital bones narrow. A rostral and a maxillary pair of 



