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Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Ton-kin. — Jordan & Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1905, p. 519; 

 Hongkong. — Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XLII, 1912, p. 404; Niigata; 

 Same; Takamatsu River; Yamaguchi; Dogo Island. — Jordan & Metz, 

 Mem. Carneg. Mus., VI, No. 2, 1913, p. 14; Corea. — Jordan, SNi'DER & 

 Tanaka, Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXIII, 1913, p. 76; Japan. 



1842. Cyprinus gibeloides Cantor, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., IX, p. 485. — Richard- 

 son, Ichthyol. China, 1846, p. 292. 



1846. C ar as si us Ian gs dor Jit Scui^EGEL, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., p. 192, pi. 98, Fig. i; 

 Japan. — Kner, Novara, Fisch, III, 1867, p. 346; Shanghai. — Peters, 

 Monatsb. Ak. Berlin, 1880, p. 924. — Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom., 1881, 

 p. 7; Swatow. — -Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1884, p. i; Tonkin. 



1855. Carassius pekinensis Basii.'ewsky, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc, X, p. 229, 

 Tab. 3, Fig. 3; China. 



1855. Carassius discolor Basilewsky, I. c, p. 229; China. 



1855. Carassius coerideus Basilewsky, I. c, p. 229; China. 



1855. Cyprinus macrophthalmus Basilewsky, /. c, p. 230, Tab. V, Fig. 5. 



1846. Cyprinus carassioides Richardson, Ichthyol. China, p. 291. 



1846. Cyprinus burgeri Richardson, /. c, p. 292. 



1846. Cyprinus abbreviatus Richardson, /. c, p. 292; Canton. 



Head 3 in length; depth 2.25; D. II, 16; A. Ill, 5; P. 15; V. 9; scales 

 6-28-8; snout 3 in head; eye 5; interorbital space 2.4; pectoral 1.66; 

 ventral 1.66; teeth 4-4. 



Body stout, rather high, compressed, dorsal and ventral profiles 

 about equally arched; head small, its top slightly depressed; snout 

 blunt; mouth small, terminal and oblique; upper jaw protractile, 

 more or less projecting; eyes large, superior and anterior; nostrils very 

 large, in front of eyes, the anterior in a short tube. 



Origin of the dorsal nearer the tip of snout than base of caudal, one 

 scale in advance of the origin of ventral, with strong spines, soft rays 

 shortening posteriorly, the first dorsal ray longest, 1.83 in length of 



Measurements of Carassius auratus. 



Locality. 



•5 

 p- 



Q 



5 ,6-28-8 

 4.3316-29-6 

 4.6016-28-8 



4-33J5-27-7 

 4.75I5-28-8 



^1 



Ritakukan 



Giran 



Giran 



Giran 



Shori 



3 



3-5 



3-25 



3-45 

 3 



2.25! II, 16 

 2.40I1II, 16 

 2.42 III, 17 

 2.32 III, 16 

 2.23 III, 17 



210 

 150 

 152 

 130 

 107 



head; the anal squarish, armed with very strong spines, its rays longer 

 in front, inserted nearer the base of caudal than that of the pectoral, 

 its origin just l)elow the fourteenth soft dorsal ray; pectoral fin round, 



