1871. J F. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinidce. 281 



Geographical distribution. This fine fish appears to be absent 

 from Southern India ; commencing to be found in the Kistna at 

 Masulipatam it extends to the Punjab, also the N. W. Provinces 

 and throughout Bengal, Assam and Burma so far as the Pegu 

 river. It is said, however, not to exist in Tenasserim. If Sykes's 

 Cyprinus abramioides is this species, it is also found in the Peccan. 

 Synopsis of species. 



1. Catla Buchanani. T>. ; A. - ; L. 1. 40 — 43 ; L. tr. — ; from the 



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Kistna through Hindustan to Pegu in Burma. 



1. Catla Buchanani. PI. xxi, fig. 2. 



Cyprinus catla, Ham. Buch., Fishes of Ganges, pp. 287, 318, 387, pi. 13 f. 81; 

 McClelland, Ind. Cyp. pp. 275, 348,* Cuv. and Val. xvi, p. 433. 



Leuciscus catla, Val. in Bel. Voy. Ind, Orient, p. 379, pi. 3, f. 2. 



Catla Buchanani, Cuv. and Val., xvii, p. 411. pi. 515; Bleeker, Verh. Bat. 

 Gen., xxv. Beng. and Hind. p. 142 ; Gunther, Catal., vii. p. 34; Day, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc., 1869, p. 370. 



? Cyprinus abramioides, Sykes, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii, p. 353, pi. 61, f. 2. 



Hypselobarbus (Tambra) abramioides* Bleeker, Pro. Cyp. p. 275. 



Botchee, Telugu : Catla, Bengal. Hind, and Punj. : Barhur, Ooriah : 

 Nga-tliaing, Burmese : Tambra ? Hind, in Bombay : Boassa, Hind, 

 in N. W. Provinces. 



B. III. D ^jZi, P. 21, Y. 9, A 3/5, C. 19, L. 1. 40-43, L. tr. -^, 



Vert. 17/18. 



Length of head 1/5, of base of dorsal 1/5, of caudal 1/5, height of 

 body 1/7, of the total length. 



Eyes. Diameter 1/8 of length of head : 2 diameters from end 

 of snout : 3 diameters apart. 



Body elevated. 



Lower jaw longest, the posterior extremity of the upper jaw 

 extending to below the nostrils. In large specimens some fine 

 pores on the snout. 



Teeth, pharyngeal, plough-shaped, 5, 3, 2/2, 3, 5. 



Pins. Dorsal arises rather in advance of the ventral, caudal 

 deeply lunated. Some males have the fins elongated. 



Scales. Prom six to six and a half rows of scales between the 

 lateral line and base of ventral fin. 



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