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CYPRINID.E. 



lighter in colour ; the belly almost white ; the whole fish 

 shining with a brilliant golden metallic lustre : iriclcs golden ; 

 cheeks and gill-cevers brilliant golden yellow ; the dorsal 

 fin and upper part of the tail, brown tinged with orange ; 

 pectoral, ventral, and anal fins, orange red ; lower part of 

 the tail tinged with the same colour. 



This fish has been considered here as the C. gibelio of 

 Bloch ; but in one circumstance it does not agree with his 

 fish. Bloch says the C. gibelio has but twenty-seven ver- 

 tebrae ; but the specimens examined for the description now 

 given had thirty vertebrae. The fin-rays agree in number 

 with those of Bloch n s gibelio. 



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