NO. 1334. JAPANESE C'YPRINOID FISHES— JORDAN AND FOWLER. 841 



Head 4^; depth 4; D. Ill, 7; A. II, (i; V. I, IH; V. 8; ncales 38 in 

 the lateral line; 5 scales between ovii^in of dorsid and lateral line, 

 and 5 between the latter and the middle of the belly; pharyngeal 

 teeth 5—5; width of head If in its length; snout 'd\ in head; eye 3|; 

 interorbital space a little less than half the head; pectoral 1^; ven- 

 tral Ih ^, , 



Body elong-ate and compressed. Head pomted (compressed), the 

 ui-per and the lower surface and the sides more or less flattened; snout 

 bluntly pointed; eye rather large, anterior; mouth oblii^uely vertical 

 and projecting in front the maxillary protractile, and not reaching 

 front of nostril; no l)arbels; pharyngeal teeth rather small and hooked; 

 nostrils close together in front of the eye a])ove; interorbital space 

 broad, nearly flat! Gill-openings moderate, lateral; gill-rakers merely 

 fleshy rudiments; pseudobranchiaj developed. Intestine short and 

 with few turns. Peritoneum silvery. 



Scales rather large, of more or less even size, and cycloid; pectorals 

 with a narrow, fleshy flap; ventral flap moderate, pointed. 



Origin of dorsal anterior, nearer tip of snout than base of caudal, 

 the anterior ravs the highest, the base of the fin U in head, and the 

 margin of the fin slightly convex; origin of anal much nearer tip of 

 pectoral than Imse of caudal, small and similar to dorsal in shape; 

 caudal emarginate, the lobes roundly pointed; pectorals reach about 

 two-thirds the distance to ventrals; ventrals inserted below the origin 

 of the dorsal and reaching two-thirds the distance to origin of anal. 

 Caudal peduncle rather long; compressed, and a trifle more than the 

 space between origins of pectoral and ventral. Lateral l.n(> almost 

 straight, or only very slightly decurved, and continuous. 



Color in alcohol, very dark grayish brown or black al,ove, the sides 

 and lower surface more or less silvery, each scale with a brownspot; 

 sides with a pale, slaty gray lateral band, most distinct posteriorly; 

 all the fins grayish brown or black, and more or less indistinctly 

 spotted or speckled with darker. . w , i 



In life the adult is golden yellow, the male with nuptial tu])ercles. 



Length, 3A inches. . iv.i-vn 



Here described from an example from IVuchiumneai 1 01.30. 

 This very abundant minnow is represented in our collections M' nci 

 many series of specimens from Tsuchiura, near Nag^ya u, wa 

 Lake Yogo near Nakanogo in Mino, Lake Biwa at Matsu bara the 

 L trlivtr at Ichinosekirthe Chikugo River at Kurume hej^c^o 

 River at Osaka, and several examples from the collection of K. Otaki, 

 from Karasaki on Lake Biwa. 

 {parvus, small). 



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