312 CYPKINID^ai. 



81. ALBURNUS*. 



Alburnus, sp., Heckel, in Russegyer^ s Reken, i. p. 1036. 



Body more or less elongate ; scales of moderate size ; lateral line 

 present, running below the median line of the tail. Dorsal fin 

 short, mthout spine, opposite to the space between ventrals and anal ; 

 anal -fin elongate, with more than thirteen rays. Lower jaw more 

 or less conspicuously projecting beyond the upper. Lips thin, simple, 

 the lower labial fold being interrupted at the symphysis of the man- 

 dible. Upper jaw protractile. Gill-rakers slender, lanceolate, 

 closely set ; pseudobranchiEe. The attachment of the branchial 

 membrane to the isthmus takes place below the hind margin of the 

 orbit. Pharyngeal teeth in two series, hooked. Belly behind the 

 ventrals compressed into an edge, the scales not extending across it. 



Europe ; Western Asia. 



1. Albumus lucidus. 



The Bleak. Die Laube, or Uckelei. L'Ablette. Loja t^Swed.). 

 Alburnus, Auson. v. 128 ; Rmdel. Be Rkc. Fluv. p. 208. 

 Phoxinus secimdus, Marsil. Dauub. Pan.-Mys. tab. 18. fig. 3. 

 CyiH-iniis, sp., Artedi, Gen. p. 6. no. 18; <S;;ec.p. 17. no. 7 ; and Synon. 



p. 10. no. 19 ; Gronov. Zoophyl. p. 10(3. no. 3.36. 

 Cypriuus alburnus, L. Syst. Nnt. i. p. 531 ; Leske, Ichth. Lips. p. 40 ; 

 'BI. Fische Deutschl. i. p. -■54, tab. 8. fig. 4 ; Bl. Sclm. p. 437 ; Lacqj. 



V. p. 589 ; Hartmann, Ilelvet. Ichth. p. 206 ; Donov. Brit. Fish. i. 



pi. 18; Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 106; Jemjm, Manual, p. 414; Fall. 



Zooqr. Ross.-As. iii. p. 321 ; Meidinyer, tab. 30 ; Fries och Fkstr. 



Skand. Fisk. p. 203, tab. 51 ; Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 184. 

 Leuciscus, sp., Klein, Pise. Miss. v. p. 68. no. 16, tab. 18. fig. 3 (bad). 

 Bleak, Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. p. 324, pi. 73 ; ed. 1812, iii. p. 487, pi. 84; 



Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. iv. p. 56, pi. 195. 

 Able ordinaire, Duhamel, Peches, ii. pi. 32. fig. 1. 

 Leuciscus alburnus, Fleming, Brit. An. p. 188 ; Cuv. 8r Val. xvii. 



p. 272 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. i. p. 368 ; 2ud edit. i. p. 419 ; 3rd edit. 



i. p. 438 ; Rapp, Fische d. Bodensee's, p. 9. 

 Aspius alburnus, Agass. Mem. Sac. Sc. Nat. Netwhdtel, i. p. 38; 



Kroyer, Damn. Fisk. iii. 1. p. 485; ?Nurdmann, in Bemidoff, Voy. 



Russ. Merid. iii. p. 496. 

 Abramis albm-nus, Ekstrom, Fische v. Morkii, p. 53 ; Niks. Skand. 



Faun. iv. p. 337 ; Gdnth. Fische d. Neckars, p. 86. 

 Aspius albuvnoides, Selys-Lonych. Faun. Beige, p. 214; Cuv. «§r Val. 



xvii. p. 186. 

 Leuciscus ochrodon, Cuv. Sr Val. xvii. p. 249. 

 Albm-nus lucidus, Heck. 8f Kner, Siisswasserf. p. 131. figs. 67 & 68 ; 



Byhowski, Cypr. Livlands, p. 165; Siebo'ld, Siissivasscrf. p. 154; 



» 1 Leuciscus cordilla, {Savi) C. ^~ V. xvii. p. 291.— Italy. — A. 13. L. lat. 39. 



2. albuloides, C. # V. xvii. p. 298.— Persia.— A. 13. L. lat. 40-45. 



3. Alburnus dorire, Be Filippi, Viagg. in Persia, p. 360. — A. 12. L. lat. 53. 



From Scliiraz. 



4. Cypi-inus tarichi, {Gilldenst.) Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-As. iii. p. 335 ; C 4' V. 



xvii. p. 294. — Lake Gokcha. 

 0. Leuciscus vuKurius, Costn, Faiin. Nap. Pfsc p. 17, t. 15.— Lago di 

 Monticchio. — A. 15. 



