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Barbel (Barbine) group has a single representative, Barbus schlegeli 
or Hemibarbus barbus, which grows to about ten inches in length. 
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SOUTHERN ASIATIC CYPRINIDS 
Asia, south of the Himalayas, the continent east of India, and 
the great as weli as small islands of the Indo-Moluccan archipelago, 
as well as the Philippine islands, support a very numerous cyprinoid 
population amounting to some 500 or 600 species. The best known 
of the regions into which the realm is divided are India and the 
Dutch islands, the former of which has been most fully illustrated 
by F. Day and the latter by P. von Bleeker. Day (1889) recognized 
185 species belonging to the Indian fauna and Bleeker (1864) 119 
species representing the “Indo-Archipelagic” area. The species 
of Indo-China (Tongking, Annan, Siam, Cochin China, Cambodia 
and Siam) were given as 57 by Sauvage in 1881. To these many 
have been added since from all the regions. 
India is a favored land of Cyprinids and some of them are fine 
game fishes. Far above all is the “ kingly Mahseer” (Barbus tor). 
but high in the second rank come “ the grand Rohu ” (Labeo rohita), 
“the sprightly Mirgha” (Cirrhina mrigala), and “the massive 
Catla”’ (Catla catla or buchanani), as they are styled by Thomas in 
“The Rod in India” (1897, p. 196). Smaller species, but at least 
equally game, are the wide-mouthed Barils which have some super- 
ficial resemblance to, and by most English residents are called 
trout. 
The most conspicuous or the most characteristic of the species 
alone can be now briefly noticed. 
