P.YDAL )VaTER. 



Order IV. 

 PHYSOSTOMI. 



Fdiiiilv 



CVPRINIDM. 



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COMMON pREAM 



Cyprinus latus sive Brama, 



Cyprinus pinnis omnibus nignsctn/ibus. 



Bream, 



Bream, or Carp-Bream, 



Cyprinus brama, 



Ahramis brayna, 



Abramis Brama, Brachsen, Bhy, 



fAbrainis brama.J 



Gesner, De Aquatil. p. 316. 



Artedi, Spec. Pise. p. + No. 2. 



WiLLUGHBY, Hist. Pisc. p. 2+8; Pennant, Brit. Zool. iii. p. 



Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. iv. p. 36. 

 Yarrell, i. p. 3S2. 



Lin., Syst. Nat. i. p. 531; Donovan, Brit. Fisli. iv. pi. 93. 

 Fleming, Brit. An. p. 187; Gunther's Cat. vii. p. 300. 

 Siebold's Siisserwasserf. p. 121. 



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Characters of the Genus Abramis. — "Body much compressed, elevated or oblong; scales of moderate size; dorsal 

 fin short, without spine, opposite to the space between ventrals and anals; anal fin long, many- rayed. Lower jaw 

 generally shorter, and rarely longer than the upper; both jaws with simple lips, the lower labial fold being interrupted 

 at the symphysis of the mandible ; upper jaw protractile. Gill-rakers rather short ; pseudobranchia;. Pharyngeal teeth 

 in one or two series, with a notch near the extremity. Belly behind the ventrals cempressed into an edge, the scales 

 not extending across it. Europe, north of the Alps, and adjoining parts of Asia; North America." — GtJNTHER. 



ABRAMIS is the name of a fish mentioned by Oppian and Athenaeus; the former speaks 

 of these fish swimming in soals, and frequenting the rocks and shores of the sea, 

 together with other marine species ; and therefore the Bream, which is exclusively a fresh- 



