^EDDGELERT, fi . WaLES. 



Order TV. 

 PHVSOSTOMT. 



Family 

 Cl'PRINID.E. 



ll/RUCIAN '(^^.ARP. 



fCarassius vulgaris.) 



Carassius, 



Cyprinus pinna dorsi ossicuhrum viginii, 



Cypritiia carassius, 



Crucian, 



Carassius vulgaris, 



WiLLUGH., Hist. P. p. 249. 



Artedi, Spec. Pise. p. 5, No. 5. 



Linn., Sys. Nat. p. 526; Yarrell, i. p. 355. 



Penn., Brit. Zool. iii. p. 319, pi. 72; Couch, Fish. Brit. 



Isles, iv. p. 28. 

 SiEBOLD, Siisserwasserfishe, p. 98: GiJNTHER's Cat. vii. 29. 



Characters 0/ /he Genus Carassius. — "This genus differs from Cyprinus in being without barbels; its pharyngeal 

 teeth are compressed in a single series, 4 — 4. Temperate Asia and Europe. Domesticated and degenerated into 

 numerous varieties." — Gu.mther. 



rpiHE Crucian Carp derives its name from the German word for this fish, namely, i/u' 

 -*- Karaiisclu, from whence also the Latin Carassius has been formed. Lacepede calls it 

 the Hamburgh Carp, and some of our Thames fishermen know it by the name of the German 

 Carp. Probably this fish was originally introduced into our own country from Hamburgh, for 

 it is referred to by Linnaeus as being called, in the Transactions of the University of Upsal. 

 by the elder Cironovius Cyprinus Hamburghcr, as the locality where perhaps it was best known. 



