Cyprinus caprio had two barbels on each side of mouth and the front pair of barbels were longer than the pair behind. The short pair was about 0.8cm that is almost 2.2% of its body lenght and the longer pair was about 1.8cm that is about 5.1% of its body lenght. its thickness in the mid part of barbel was about 1260 micron. it has stratified epithelium with different cell types. there were taste buds in epithelium of barbel. its dermis had collagenous fibers. Myelinated fibers and a lot of blood vessels were in central region of barbel.

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