344 CYI'KINIU.K. 



Foui'teanth Group. COBITIDINA. 



Mouth surrounded by six or more barbels. Dorsal fin short or 

 of moderate length ; anal fin short. Scales small, rudimentary, 

 or entirely absent. Pharyngeal teeth in a single series, in mo- 

 derate number. Air-bladder partly or entirely enclosed in a bony 

 capsule. Pseudobranchiae none. 



Europe and Asia. 



98. MISGURNUS*. 

 Misgurnus, Lucep. v. p. IG ; Blceh. AtJ. Ichthyol. Cypr. p. 13. 

 Cobitichthys, Bleek. Cypr. Prodi: p. 81. 



Body elongate, compressed. No suborbital spine. Ten or twelve 

 barbels, four belonging to the mandible. Dorsal fin opposite to the 

 ventrals ; caudal rounded. Air-bladder enclosed in a bony capsule. 



Europe ; Asia ; ? Borneo. 



1 . Misgurnus fossilis. 



Der Schlammpitzger. 



Mustela fossilis, Gesner, p. 373; Aldrovand. v. p. 579 j IFilluyhby, 



Mist. Pise. p. 124. 



Misgum, WiUughby, I. c. p. 118. 



Pissgurn, Marsil. Dmmb. Pan.-Mys. if. p. 39, pi. 13. fig. I. 

 Cobitis, sp., Artedi, Genera, p. 2. no. 3; and Synon. p. 3. no. 3; 



Gronov. Zooiihyl. no. 201. 

 Enchetyopus, sp., Klein, Pise. Mis/f. iv. p. 59. no. 5, tab. 35. fig. 3. 

 Cobitis fossilis, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 500; Bl. Fische Detdschl. i. p. 210, 



taf. 31. fig. 1 ; Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-As. iii. p. 166; 3Ieidinyer, tab. 47; 



Sclys-Longch. Faun. Beige, p. 193; Nordmann in Demid. Voy. 



Russ. Merid. iii. p. 469 ; Cuv. Hf Val. xviii. p. 46 ; Kroycr, Damn. 



Fish. iii. p. 553; Keck. 8{ Kner, Silssioasserf. p. 298. fig. 161; 



Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 40 ; Jeitteles, Vei'h. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 



1862, p. 66; Siebold, Siisstvasserf. p. 335; Blanchard, Poiss. France^ 



p. 289. 

 Acanthopsis fossilis, Jeitteles, Fische d. March, i. 1863, p. 16. 

 Misgurnus fossilis, Lacep. v. p. 1^. 



Osteology : Rosentlial, Ichthyotom. Taf. tab. 10. figs. 1-7. 

 Bmimert, F. M., Chemische Untcrsuchungen iiber die Respiration des 



Schlammpeizgers. Breslau, 1853, 4to. 



D. 9. A. 8. V. 7. Vert. 31/19. 



Scales very conspicuous. Barbels ten, four belonging to the 

 mandible. Origin of the dorsal fin midway between the root cf the 

 caudal and the occiput. Pectoral fin generally as long as the head. 

 A brown band along the middle of the side, separated by a yellowish 

 band from the brown back. Nearly the whole body with brownish- 

 black dots, confluent into vermiculated lines on the back. 



Central and Eastern Europe. 



* 1. Cobitis bai-baluloido9, Bleek. Nat. Tydschr. Ned. Ind. ii. p. 4.35; Cobi- 

 tii^lithys biirbaluloidcs, Bkck. Frodr. Cypr. p. 82; Mi.sgurnus barba- 

 tuloidcs, Ba(k. All. Ichthyol. Cypr. j). 14, tab. 2. fig. 1. — Borncu. 



