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Some fishes were sent by the junior author from Chashma Lake, Mianwali District. In addition to the fishes already known from the Chashma Lake, there was a large specimen of Recoma labiata McClelland belonging to the subfamily Schizothoracinae, family Cyprinidae of the teleostean fishes. This specimen is 445 mm in'total length and weighs 860 grams. This species has been recorded from Kalabagh in the sub-mountainous Indus Region about 80 km upstream. It is normally found in the hill streams from. 300 m upto about 4500 m above sea level. In the Punjab Plain, it was previously reported from the upper Jhelum canal near Chechian (Gujrat District) and the Trimmu Lake- of river Chenab (-Mang • District). The present specimen is the third specimen of R. labiata collected from the Punjab Plain. It is the new record for species, genus and subfamily from the Chashma Lake and is being Jecorded from the river Indus downstream of Jinnah Barrage for the. first
M.R. MIRZA , SADAQAT HUSSAIN . (1998) A NOTE ON THE FISH FAUNA OF CHASHMA LAKE, PAKISTAN, WITH TIIE RECORD OF RACOMA LABIA TA McCLELLAND (PISCES : CYPRINIDAE) , Punjab University Journal of Zoology, Volume 13, Issue 1.
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