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€ J Ée des npérrures se seven euCh side UT te neck, 
: ips not united intô a st destitute of teeth, ne 
Eyes ol'apparent, *. r* ; 
F AA VÉLr- Dorsaffins, separated,” the . 
| anti he mir is rounded; back. and % 
sides reddishs abdomen white, ess | , É 
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by an à bare M 
Body before s lindfic, behind Ce ah 
tapering to the tail: nape elevated: head sloping pro- 2 
Jonged into a snout with alip, which has two short, 
rounded lobes; these lobes, when the mouth is clo- 
‘sed embrace and conceal the lower lip, , which isvery 
#short: nostrils small, in the centre of a white, ov 
pellucid disk, easily moveable: upper lip su à 
| ted within: opening of the thront with small, ramif- 
ed papillæ: branchial apertures in a longitudin: 
ion, oblique, a little curved; frst aperb 
the angle of the mouth: head with a 
hitish spot, which seems to “Aa 
of eyes, hat this tk his species isfdeficient 
The annular or D Be of th s of 
this fish, is oi te he muscles, which mn is 




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common 
with the P. ruber of Eur 





“with great strength" in order to enable it to urrow # 
+ in he | à se of rivers, where it penetrates in 
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