I am looking to find out what the spatula part of the barbels on Phylonemus typus would be considered...would it be membrane or......????
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Name for spatula on P.typus
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Name for spatula on P.typus
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Re: Name for spatula on P.typus
I did a short search and found this. In the paper "Bagrid catfishes from Lake Tanganyika, with a key and descriptions of new taxa" by Baily & Stewart in 1984, the key states "Maxillary barbel with two strongly expanded distal flanges."
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Re: Name for spatula on P.typus
Yes thanks...I even had that PDF here just didn't think about it
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