380 ORDER MALACOPTERYGII ABDOMINALES. 



Abramis, Cuv. 



Have neither spines nor barbels ; their dorsal is short, 

 placed behind the ventrals, and their anal is long. 

 We have two species. 



C. brama, L. Bl. 13. (the common bream). The 

 largest species of this subdivision ; there are twenty- 

 nine rays to the anal, and all the fins are obscure. It 

 is a tolerably good fish, found in great abundance, and 

 easily multiplied. 



C. blicca, C. latus, Gm. Bl. 10. (little bream). Pec- 

 torals and ventrals reddish ; twenty-four rays to the 

 anal ; not much esteemed, and but little used except 

 for feeding fish in fish-ponds \ 



Labeo, Cuv. 



The dorsal is long, like that of the carps, properly so 

 called, but the spines and barbels are wanting, and 

 the fleshy and frequently crenated lips, are remarkably 

 thick. The species are all foreign 2 . 



Catastomus, Lesueur. 



The same thick, pendant, and fringed or crenated lips 

 as labeo ; but their dorsal is short, like that of Leu- 



1 Add three fishes which ascend from the Baltic into the rivers 

 which disembogue themselves into that sea, C. bailer us, Bl. 9. ; C. 

 vimba, L. Bl. 4.; and C. Buggenhagii, Bl. 95. ; and, in foreign 

 species, C. cotis, Buchan. pi. xxxix. f. 93. 



' C. Niloticus, Geoffr. Poiss. du Nil, pi. ix. f. 2. C. fonbriatus, 

 Bl. 409., to which must be added the Calostomus cyprinus, Lesueur. 



