SOME SKULL BONES OF TAXONOMIC IMPORTANCE IN TWO NILE CYPRINOID FISHES LABEO HORIE AND LABEO FORSKALII FROM ASSIUT

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The morphology of the supraethomid, frontals, vomer, parasphenoid and urohyal of Labeo horie and Labeo forskalii was briefly described. Morphometric ratios of those bones, reliable for the discrimination between the two species considered, were determined.