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1. MISGURNUS Lacepede. 

 Misgurnm Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, p. 16 {fosdlis). 



Body elongate, compressed. Head triangular, elongate, compressed 

 snout projecting; mouth inferior, with fleshy lips; barbels 10 or 12, c 

 which 4 are mandibular; eye small. Gill-openings lateral; lateral lind 

 complete. No spine below the eye. Body with small scales, oxcep 

 on the head, which is naked. Origin of the dorsal about in the middl.i 

 of the length of the fish, over the ventrals; anal entirely behind dor 

 sal; pectorals more or less equal to the head; caudal nearly equal t( 

 head, and rounded. Air-bladder in a bony capsule. 



{mlsgurn. a vernacular name used by Willughby for Misgtirnti 

 fossilis.) 



a Barbels 12, 4 belonging to the mandible polynemus, ] 



aa. Barbell 10, 4 belonging to the mandible anguUUcaudatus, S 



I. MISGURNUS POLYNEMUS (Bleeker). 



CobiticJithys polynema Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl, VIII, 1860, p. 90, p 



n, fig. 3; (Jeddo=Tokyo). 

 Misgurmis polynema GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas., VII, 1868, p. 346 (afte 



Bleeker).— Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japan, III, 1901, p. 45. 



D. 10; A. 7; V. (3. Barbels 12; 4 belonging to the mandible. Scale 

 conspicuous. Origin of the dorsal midway between the root of th 

 caudal and the gill-opening; pectoral fin shorter than the head. Colo 

 nearly uniform brownish, tail and caudal fin with scattered blackis 

 spots. Jeddo. (Giinther.) 



Not seen by us. 



(TToA-Wb, many; vi)f.ia. thread.) 



2. MISGURNUS ANGUILLICAUDATUS (Cantor). 

 DOJO. 

 Cobitis anguUlicaudaia Cantor, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., IX, 1842, p. 485.— RiC'ij 



ARDSON, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 300; Canton. 

 Misgurnm angiiillicaudatus Gv-STRER, Cat. Fish, VII, 1868, p. 345; China, Chusa. 



Japan, Formosa. — Jordan and Snyder, Check List, 1901, p. 45. 

 CoUtis bifurcata McClelland, Calcutta Jour. Nat. Hist., IV, 1844, p. 400, i 



xxui, fig. 1; India. 

 Cobitis pedoralis McClelland, Calcutta Jour. Nat. Hist., IV, 1844, i^. 400, i 



XXIII, fig. 3; India. (Specimens with long pectorals.) 

 Cobitis rubripinnis Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1846, p. 220, pi. cm, fig- 

 near Nagasaki. 

 Cobitis maculata Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1846, p. 221, pi. cm, fig. 



near Nagasaki. 

 Cobitis micropus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XVIII, 1846, p. - 



China. 

 Cobitis psammismus Richardson, Ichthy. China, 1846, p. 300; Canton. 

 Cobitis decemcirrosus Basilewsky, Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc, 1855, p. 239; w 

 Peking. 



