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-^^^ PISCES. 



Labeo, Cuv. 

 A long dorsal, as in the Carp properly so called, but neither 

 si3ines nor cxrnj remarkably thick, fleshy lips, frequently crenated. 

 Ihey are all foreign to Europe. (l) 



Catostomus, Lesueur. 

 The same thick, pendent and fringed, or crenated lips as in La- 

 beo; but the dorsal is short, iike that of a Leuciscns, L is oppo- 



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Leuoiscus, Klein. 

 The dorsal and anal short; neither spines nor cirri, nothing par- 

 ticular about the hps. This subdivision is rich in species, buft'ey 

 are not much esteemed. They are known in different parts of France 

 by the various and rather indistinct appellation of Meunier, Che- 

 valine, Gar don, 8cc.(3) ' 



We distinguish them by the position of the dorsal, a character 

 however which xs not always sufficiently well marked! In some i 

 IS opposite to the ventrals. Of this group we find in France, 



L.dobula; Cyp. dobula, L., Bl., 5; Le Meunier. The head 

 broad, and snout round; pectorals and ventrals, red 



Z. idus; C. idus; Le Gardon, Bl., 6, and better Meidin.er, 36 

 About the same colours; the head narrower, back higha-, and 

 snout more convex. 



L. rutilus; Cyp. rutilus, L.j La Rosse, Bl., 2. Body com- 

 pressed, silvery; red fins. ^ 



L. vulgaris; Cyp. kucisms; La Vandoise, BL, 97 f. 1 Bodv 

 straight; fins pale; snout slightly prominent. The 



L. nasus; Cyp. nasus, L.; Le Nez, is taken in the Rhine; its 

 snout IS more salient and obtuse than that of the Leuciscus.(4.) 



(1) C.nilotims, Geoff., Foiss. du Nil dI iv f 9 r ^ j. , 



which .ust be added the 'ca^osto.^.: ^^'.S^iLsu;" '^"^'""^"^' ""'' '''' " 



(2) M. Lesueur describes seventeen species, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. ofPhilad 

 18ir, vol. I, p. ssetseq. and figures nine of them; the first, however c'^' 

 ^r.^us, njust be abs.acted, as it is rather a Labeo. Add C,pr. Ls^2, ^p 



ers ot the United States. .S/yi. Ed.] 



fhlll ^'''', """^ ''"' '''"''''^'' l^'-^^e "t adhered to the cu.stomary application of 

 ^1^71"^""""' "'"^^ "^^>""^^ ^'^^^'^"^-^ -'--t at random 

 207 cLr ^"'t^'^V^-^^^' -"d f ^o'-eign species, C. pala, Cuv., Russ., 

 207, -C. tola, Cuv., Kuss., 208;-C. loga, Buch. Pise. Gang., pi. xxviii, f. m.-C. 



