Sleeker distinguishes this genus 
from Valenciennea by its greatly 
obtuse and nearly truncate profile, 
body cycloid. He also says he knows 
that his Valenciennesla notorhthalmu 
perfectly known that I only include 
dentition and anterior scales on the 
only certainly the tvne species and 
s. may be another. This is so im- 
it here for completeness, evidently 
based on a Chinese painting. 
