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Descriptive notes :
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Adults attain about 15cm in body length.
Slender cylindrical body somewhat compressed.
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Ten barbels around mouth but not present in front of
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nostrils.
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No spines below eyes.
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Body color either orange-brown or greenish-brown with
spots.
Ventral surface whitish.
Live mostly in ponds, swamps and rice fields or muddy
bottoms of shallow waters connected with such areas.
Eat organic matter and small aquatic animals in the mud
located mainly by means of gustatory and olfactory senses.
Intestinal respiration.
Lobus olfactorius is connected with bulbus olfactorius by
olfactory tract.
Lobus olfactorius well—developed.
lnferior lobe well—developed.
Optic lobe small.
Corpus cerebelli is of normal size.
Facial lobe forms a
single large lobe which is encircled by two large vagal
lobes.
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