Distribution of true Fresh-Water Fishes in the Philippines, II the Philippine Labyrinthici, Claridae, and Siluridae

Key to Philippine families of Labyrinthici

Fixed conical teeth on palatines and jaws; vomer toothless; first soft ray of ventral produced into a single filament, or ventral reduced to a single long filament.

Fixed conical teeth on vomer and jaws; none on palatines in Philippine representatives; ventrals of one spine and five soft rays.

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