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SCANDINAVIAN I'ISHKS. 



THE MINNOW (8\v. eluitzan). 

 PHOXINUS APHYA. 



Plate XXXIII, fig. 3. <^ and ?. 



Body elongaUd and terete, its greatest depth beimj less than '/^ (17 — 10\',^ %) of its Jeni/fh", f/rnitest thickness 

 at least half the greatest depth^ and least depth {least depth of the tail) less than half the greatest depth or than 

 ' '., iif the length of the tail from a line with the end of the base of the anal Jin fa the middle of the base of 

 the caudal fn- Length of the head ahout 21 — 2:-i'^l^ % of that of the bodg. I'hargngeal teeth pointed, hooked at 

 the tip, ivith the masticatorg surface sharpened, but smooth or even hardlij distinguish(dile, and set in a double or 



single row: 2, 5{4) — 4{5), 2 or 5 — 4. 



Fig. 188. Pliaryngeal bones (a and h, as in the preceding figure) and covering of the pliaryngeal process (c) in Pho,ciiius apliya. 



>Iagu. 3 diain. 



48; D.\Y, Fhl,. Gt. Brit, Irel., vol. II, p. 185, tab. CXXXIV 

 fig. 1; M(5b., Hoke, Fisch. Osts., p. 113. 



Ci/primis Aplii/a, Lin., Si/st., 1. c, p. 323; Bl., 1. c, part. Ill, 

 p. 143, tab. XCVII, fig. 2, inia:^ fignra tainen pessima potius 

 forsan ad Leiic. grislaginein referenda; Retz., 1. c; NiLSS., 

 Prodr., 1. c. : Kr. (Pho.tiniis), Damn. Fisk., vol. Ill, p. 524: 

 Coll.. Forb. Vid. Selsk. Clirist. 1874, Tilla'gsh., p. 183; 

 1879, No. 1, p. 9C.; N. Mag. Naturv. Christ., Bd. 29 (1884), 

 p. Ill; Malm, 6'i./.s, Boh. Fn., p. 504; Feddkks., Naturh. 

 Tidskr. Kbbvi), ser. 3, vol. XII. p. '.U; Mela, Vert. Fern)., 

 p. 321, tab. X; Lillj., 6'u., Monj. Fisk., vol. Ill, p. 179. 



Cyprinus rivularis, Pall., Russ. Jieis., part. II, p. 717. 



Pho.vinus Icevis, Agass., 1. c. ; Hckl, Kn., iSusstuasserf. Oeslr. 

 Mon., p. 210; DynowsKi, Ci/iir. LicL. p. 105; Sieb., Siiss- 

 ivasserf. Mitteleur., p. 222; Mgrn, Finl. Fiskfn. (disp. 

 Helsingf. 1803), p. 48; Bncke, Fisch., Fischer., Fis<'Ii:. 0.. 

 W. Preiiss., p. 141; MoR., Hist. Nat. Poiss., toni. Ill, p. 

 392; Fatio, Fii. Vert. Smsse, vol. IV, p. 038. 



The Minnow is the smallest Scandinavian Cyprinoid, 

 with the exception of the Oirsiaidia {Leucaspius de- 

 lincatus), :ind is ^'enerally no lai'ger than tlie latter. 

 Its ordinary length in Sweden is about li — 9 cm. Our 

 largest specimen, from Lake Korn in Northern Bohus- 

 liiu, measures 105 mm. to the end of tlic caudal lobes 



-Sy»i. 01 (poilvoi, Aristot., De Anivi., lib. VI, cap. XIII et XIV. 

 Phoxiims, Veron, Belon, Nat., Div. Poi.M., p. 324. Pisci- 

 culus varius, Rond., De Pise, part. II, p. 205. Phoxinus 

 I.CEcis, ScHONEV., Ickthyol. Slesv. Hols. p. 57. Vyprinus tri- 

 dactylus varius oblongus teretiusculus, pinna ani ossiculorum 

 octo, Ar'I'., IcIdhjjoL, Syn. Pise, p. 12 + Cyprinus biunci- 

 alis, iridibus rubris, pinna ani ossiculorum novem. Id., ibid, 

 (excl. syn. ScHONEV.) et Descr. •Spec. Pise, p. 30. Lin., Fa. 

 ^nec, ed. I, p. 125, No. 331; Id., Alkufira, It. We.'<troij., 

 p. 232. 

 Cyprinus Pho-viiiiis, Lin., .Sy.<!l. Nat., cd. X, toni. 1, p. 322; 

 Bl. Fisch. Dent-ichl., part. I, p. 00, tab. Vlll, fig. 5; Retz.. 

 Fn. fSnec. Lin., p. 350; Pall. Zooijr. liosi. Asiat., torn. 

 Ill, p. 330; Flmng {Leuciscus), Brit. Aniia., p. 188; Ekstr., 

 (Cyprinus), Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1830, p. 106; Nilss., Prodr. 

 Ichthyol. Scand., p. 29; Id. (Leuciscu.i), Ukand. Fn., Fisk., 

 p. 319; SuNDEV. (Cyprinus), Stkhlms L. Hush. Sails. Handl., 

 H. (1855), pp. 82 ct 175; Thomps. (Leuciscus), Nat. 

 Hist. L-el., vol. IV, p. 138; Li.ndstr., Gotl. L. Hush. Salisk. 

 Arsber. 1806, p. 18 (sep.); Gthr, 1. c.; Olsson, Ufvers. 

 Vet.-Akad. FiJrIi. 1876, No. 3, p. 131; 1882, No. 10, p. 



" Except in gravid females. 



'' Fewest in the males, in whicli, according to Fatio, tlie mimlier is further rednced during llie spawniiig-scason. 



