CRUCIAN CARP. 



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ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



CYPRIXIDJE. 



THE CRUCIAN CARP 



THE GERMAN CARP. 



Cyprinus carassius, BLOCK, pt. i. pi. xi. 

 ,, ,, NILSSON, page 32. 



,, ,, EKSTROM, page 58. 



,, TURTON, British Fauna, p. 108, sp. 119. 



,, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 403. 



SINCE the publication of the first edition of this work, I 

 have obtained another specimen from the Thames of what I 

 believe to be the true Cyprinus carassius, and on the autho- 

 rity of various authors, as well as a close examination of ex- 

 amples of that and Cyp. gibelio, I have considered them 

 distinct and have separated them accordingly. 



Besides the systematic term carassius, and the French 

 name carassin, this species in Sweden is called karussa. 

 The late Dr. Jacobs, an Ichthyologist of Berlin, says it is 

 called carouche. I have very little doubt that our well 



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