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Book Fauna Palaestina 4 Year 2014 By Prof Dr Norman Ali Bassam Khalaf von Jaffa ISBN 978-9950-383-77-7

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water currents. Teeth are hooked at the tip. The short gill rakers<br />

number 14-26. The upper lip is delicately fimbriated.<br />

Scales on lateral line: 29 -38. The dorsal fin has 8 branched rays<br />

modally, and the caudal fin 17 branched rays modally. Total<br />

vertebrae in the Palestinian specimens 32-37.<br />

The Palestine Doctor Fish Discovery Team: Zoologist <strong>Prof</strong>. <strong>Dr</strong>. Sc.<br />

<strong>Norman</strong> <strong>Ali</strong> <strong>Bassam</strong> <strong>Khalaf</strong>-<strong>von</strong> <strong>Jaffa</strong> (right), Ola Mostafa <strong>Khalaf</strong><br />

(middle), Botanist Banan Al Sheikh (left) and Nora <strong>Norman</strong> <strong>Ali</strong> <strong>Khalaf</strong><br />

(Photographer) at Ain Al Basa Spring, Wadi Qana Nature Reserve, Salfit<br />

Governorate, State of Palestine. 08.07.2013.<br />

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50022881@N00/9475081719/<br />

Colour<br />

Overall colour is brownish-olive to dark green with darkly<br />

mottled flanks and a yellowish to whitish belly. The head and<br />

flanks may be a rusty-red, bronze or golden. A dark or bluish-<br />

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