312 CYPKI^JID^. 



81. ALBURNUS* 

 Alburnus, sp., Heckel, in Riissegger^s Seisen, i. p. 1036. 



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

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

 short, Trithout 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 ; pseudobranchia?. The attachment of the branchial 

 membrane to the isthmus takes place below tne 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 ; AVestern Asia. 



1. Alhumus lur.idus. 



The Bleak. Die Laube, or Uekelei. L'Ablette. Liija t^Swed.). 

 Alburnus, Amoii. v. 12o ; RoncM. De Pise. Fluv. p. 208. 

 Phoxinus secundus, Marsil. Danub. Pan.-Mys. tab. 18. lig. 3. 

 Cyprinus, sp., Artedi, Gen. p. G. no. 18; Spec.]}. 17. no. 7 ; and Syncn. 



p. 10. no. 19 ; Groiiov. Zoophyl. p. 100. no. 330. 

 Cypvinus alburnus, L. Sijst. Nat. i. p. 531 ; Leske, Ichth. Lips. p. 40 ; 

 'Bl. Fixche Dcutschl. i. p. 04, tab. 8. fig. 4 ; Bl. Schn. p. 437 ; Lacqj. 



V. p. o89 ; Ilartmann. Ilelvet. lehth. p. 200 ; Donor. Brit. Fish. i. 



pi. 18, Tiirtoii, Brit. Faun. p. 10() ; Jenijns, Manuul, p. 414; Pall. 



Zoof/i: Bos':.- As. iii. p. ,321 : Meidiiu/er, tab. 30; Fries och Ekstr. 



island. Fisk. p. 203, tab. 51 ; Gronor. Sy.4. ed. Gray, p. 184. 

 Leuciscus, sp., Klein, Pise. Miss. v. p. 08. no. 10, tab. 18. lig. 3 (bad). 

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



Couch, Fish. Brit. hi. iv. p. 50, pi. 105. 

 Abie ovdiuaiie, Diihanicl, Piches, ii. pi. 32. fig. 1. 

 Leuciscus alburnus, Flemimj, Brit. An. p. 188 ; Cue. (Jj- Val. xyii. 



p. 272 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. i. p. 3()8 ; 2ud edit. i. p. 419 ; 3rd edit. 



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

 Aspius alburnus, Ayass. Mem. Sac. Sc. Nat. Neuchdtel, i. p. 38; 



Krriyer, Damn. Fish. iii. l.p. ±85; ?Nu?-dmann, in Demidoff, Voy. 



Rms. Merid. iii. p. 490. 

 Abraniis alburnus, Elcstrom, Fische v. MorJdi, p. 53 ; Nilss. Skand. 



Faun. iv. p. 337 ; Giinth. Fische d. N^eckar;^, p. 80. 

 Ai^pius alburnoides^ Selys-Lonych. Faun. Behje,-^. 2\i; Cue. ^- Fal. 



xvii. p. 186. 

 Lcucisous ochrodon, Cue. S: Val. xvii. p. 249. 

 Alljunuis lucidus. Heck. ^- Kne7-, Siis wasserf. p. 131. figs. 67 & 08; 



Dyhowski, Cypr. Livlanch, p. 105; Siebold, Siissicasserf. p. 154; 



* 1. Leuciscus cordiUa, (Swi) C. 4- V. xvii. p. 291.— Ittily.— A. 13. L. lat. 39. 



•J. albiiloiaes, C. # V. xvii. p. 298.— Persia.— A. 13. L. lat. 40-45. 



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



From Schiraz. 

 -\. Cvprinus tariclii, (G'dhlenst.) Pali. Zoogr. Hoss.-As. iii. p. [)3.") ; C c^- V. 



xvii. p. 294. — Lake Gokcha. 

 .■>. Loiicisciis vulturius, Cmta, Ffiiot. Nop. Pcbc. y. 17, 1. 15. — Lhjjo di 



ilouliuchio.— A. l.'>. 



