THE FItESH-WATElt FISHES OF EUROPE. 



Barbus plebejus (VALENCIENNES). 



D. 3/8, A. 3/5, V. 9. Lateral line 6675, transverse 14 17/U. 



This species (Fig. 4<7) is limited in its distribution to Italy and Dalrnatia, 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. BAUBUS PLEBEJrS (VALENC.). 



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

 Filippi in regarding it as but a variety of B. vulgaris. Dr. Giinther, however, 

 enters it as a good species, though he would unite with it the Barfjns e< 



Fig. 48. BAHBUS PLEBEJUS (VALENC.), VAtt. EQUES. 



(Fig. 48) of the Austrian ichthyologists, while hesitating to follow Canestrini 

 in uniting with it the Barbus eques of Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



The head is less than a quarter the length of the body and about one-fifth 

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



