32 cyprinid.tK. 



3. Carassius auratus. 



Ch'iginal variety. 



?(^ypriniis lineatus, Cui\ Sf Val. xvi. p. 96*. 

 Cyprinus langsdorHi, Ctiv. 8f Val. xvi. p. 99. 

 gibelioides, Cantor, Ann. i^ May. Nat. Hist. 1842, ix. p. 485 ; 



Richards. Ichthyol. Chin. p. 292. 

 Carassius langsdorfii, Schhy. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 192, pi. 98. fig. 1. 

 biirgeri, Schlcf/. I. c. p. 194. tig. 2 ;■ Richards. I. c. p. 292 ; Rleck. 



Act. Sac. Sc. Indu-Ncerl. viii. Japan, vi. p. 9G. 



ciivieri, Sch/cf/. I. c. fig. 3 ; Richards. I. c. 



grandoculis,»S'c/</e//. /. c. p. 195. fig. 4 (from a specimen badly fed). 



Cyprinus carassoides (Graij), Richards. I.e. p. 291. 



abbreA'iatus, Richards. I. c. p. 292 (monstros.). 



Carassius pekinensis,i?ffA'j7e?t;s/i'y,iN^a?<i'. Mem. Sac. Nat. Mosc. x. 1865, 



p. 229, tab. 3. fig. 3. 



cferideus, Basilcicshy, I. c. tab. 9. fig. 2. 



— — discolor, Basilewsky, I. c. 



Domesticated varieties. 



Goldfish. 



Raster, Act. Harlem, vii. p. 246, c. tab. ; Kdmpf, Geschichte von 



Japan, i. p. 155; Petiver, Gazophjl. tab. 78." fig, 7; Edward, 



Gleaninys, pi. 209. 

 Cyprinus, sp., Klein, Pise. Miss. \. p. 60. no. 8; Gronor. Zoophyl. 



no. 342, p. 108, and Mas. lehfhyol. i. p. 3. no. 15, ii. no. 150; 



Kolrcuter, Act. Petropol Nov: ix. p. 420, tab. 9. figs. 1, 2. 

 Cyprinus auratus, X. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 527; lil. Fische Deutschl. iii. 



■p. 132, taf. 93, 94; PI. Schn. p. 439; Lacip. v. p. 553; Yarrell, 



Brit. Fish. i. p. 315, or 2nd edit. i. p. 358, or 3rd edit. ii. p. 371 ; 



Cuv. 8,- Val. xvi. p. 101 ; Basilocski/, Nu7ir. Mem. Sac. Nat. Mosc. 



X. 1855. pi. 5 ; Richards. Ichfh. Chin. p. 293. 



mauritianus, Bcnn. Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. i. 1830, p. 167. 



thoracatus. Car. i^'- T'(d. x\ i. p. 97, pi. 460 (specimens intro- 

 duced to Mauritius). 

 maillardi, Guichenot, in Maillard, Notes sur Vile dc la Reunion, 



App. C, p. 14. 



chinensis, Gronor. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 181. 



Coldfi.sli, Pennant, Brit. Zool. iii. p. 3i27; or ed. 1812, iii. p. 490. 

 Cyprinus telescopus, lAicep. v. p. 553, pi. 18. fig. 2. 



macrophthalnius, Bl. Ansldnd. Fisch. taf 410. 



quadrilobus, Laccp. v. pi. 18. fig. 3. 



nukta, Syhes, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. p. .355. 



quadrilolDatus, Basileioshy, I. e. p. 2.30, pi. 5. fig. 5. 



Carassius auratus, Bleeker, Cypr. p. 255, and Atl. Ichthyol. Ci/pr. 



p. 74. 

 ■ vulgaris, var. capensis, Peters, Monatsber. Ak. IFiss. Berlin, 



1864, p. 393. 



D, 19. A. 8. L. lat. 20. L. transv. 12. Vert. 18/13. 



Barbels none. Dorsal and anal fins Avith the stiff ray rather 

 strong and coarsely serrated ; caudal emarginate. 



The homo of the (Jold Carp or Goldfish is China and its islands 

 and Japan ; the wild breed has been described under various names, 



* Wo suppose that " D. 4/23" is a misprint. 



