Labeo Rueppell

Sinaseli M. Tshibwabwa, Melanie L. J. Stiassny & Robert C. Schelly, 2006, Description of a new species of Labeo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the lower Congo River., Zootaxa 1224, pp. 33-44 : 33

[[ Genus Labeo Rueppell ]]

Cyprinid fishes of the genus Labeo have been divided into two groups on the basis of the anatomy of the inner surface of their lips which are either papillate or plicate (Tshibwabwa & Teugels, 1995). In the lower Congo region (from Pool Malebo to the Atlantic Ocean, see Thieme et al., 2005), the first group is represented by 3 species: Labeo lineatus Boulenger, 1898 , L. weeksii Boulenger, 1909 , and L. maleboensis Tshibwabwa, 1997 , and the second group is represented by 13 species: L. annectens Boulenger, 1903 , L. barbatus Boulenger, 1898 , L. chariensis Pellegrin, 1904 , L. cyclorhynchus Boulenger, 1899 , L. degeni Boulenger, 1920 , L. falcipinnis Boulenger, 1903 , L. greenii Boulenger, 1902 , L. longipinnis Boulenger, 1898 , L. macrostomus Boulenger, 1898 , L. nasus Boulenger, 1899 , L. parvus Boulenger, 1902 , L. rectipinnis Tshibwabwa, 1997 , and L. sorex Nichols and Griscom, 1917 (Tshibwabwa & Teugels, 1995; Tshibwabwa, 1997).