The live colours of this fish are very beautiful. The main colour is a fine darker grass green, turning
yellowish on the head, and from the belly forwards it becomes lighter, turning into white on the lower jaw.
The membrane covering the tip of the lower jaw and the barbels are green with a yellow edge, this yellow
continues along the inner side of the barbels. The large scales in the centre of their free halves are
decorated with a pale, dirty purplish band shaped like a curved line. The mucus grooves on the head and
the mucus holes on the scales, under which the lateral line canal is situated, are purplish rose red. The fins
are unicoloured and splendid [orange yellow]; the iris of the eye dirty orange yellow.”