LELX'ISI'IMCS. 



783 



THE ASP (s\v. Asi'KN). 



ASPllS KAl-AX. 



Plate XXXVI, tigs. 1 (rf) ami 2 (?). 



Scales ill the lateral line aliout Cd (6:? — 7';!). Lciii/tli af the loirer jair alwiif ' j„ (10 or 11 %) of that of the 

 body, (ircater than the least dejith af th' tail, and at least ' ,„ {70 — S,\f %) of the length of the base of the anal 

 fin. Leiii/th of the apjier j'air at least ' ,2 {O'.-l — S'.'l %) of that af the liodi/ and greater than either the hreadth 

 of the iiiter(o'l)it(d sjiaee or the length of the sahopereahoii, irhiiii ineasirrements are ahont equal to eaeh other. 

 Phari/iigcal teeth set in tiro roics {3, 5 — 5, 5), hooked af the tiji. irith siiKiotli, more or less sharp, and not reri/ 



distinct masticatorii surface. 



Fig. 194. Pliaryngeal boues and pliaryiigeal cartilage of Aspius rcipiia; natural size. o. b, ami c as in the preceding figure. 



R. br. 3; D. 



(12)13—14(15) 



11 — 12 

 6'. J' + 1 + 17 + 1 + ,r; L. lat. (62)66—73: L. tr. -ttz = 1: 



(4)5- 



Vert. 48 1. 49. 



Syn. Capita fuvkitilis rapax, Gesn., Hitit. Anim.. lib. IV. Paralip.. 

 p. 9; SCHO.NEV., Iclithi/ol. Slesc. Hoist., p. 30; M.arsigl., 

 Damih. Pant,. Miik., ton.. IV, p. 20. tab. VII, fig. 2; Cij- 

 ]>rinu.9 magnus crassus argenteus; longitudine ad latitudiuem 

 ipiintupla, Art., Ichtlojol., Syn. Pise, p. 8. Ci/priiius 

 ina.xilla inferiore longiore cum apice elevato, pinna ani ossicu- 

 lorum quindeciiu, Art., ibid.. Gen. Pise, p. G ; «S'.y«. Pise, 

 p. 14; Descr. 6'j'er. Pitic. p. 14; Lix.. Fii. i:iiec., ed. I, 

 p. 121. 



Ci/]>riints Aspius, LiN., 6'yst. Xat., ed. X, toni. I, p. 325; Bi,., 

 Fiscli. Deutschl., part. I, p. 48, tab. VII; Retz., Fii. Siiec. 

 Lin., p. 359; Nilss., Prodi: Ichthyol. Scand., p. 28; Cuv., 

 Val. (Leuciscus), Hist. A'at. Poiss., torn. XVII, p. 265; 

 Nii.ss. (Abramis), SIcand. Fn.. Fish., p. 334; Widegr. (6'y- 

 priniis), Lnndtbr. Akad. Tidskr. 18()3, p. 203; Reut., Sundm. 

 (A.'tpins), Finl. Fisk., tab. XIX. 



Vypriiius rapax, Leske, Ichthyol. Lips, spec, p. 56; Pall., 

 Zooyv. Hoss. Asiat., torn. Ill, p. 811; Agass. (Aspiiis), 1. c. ; 

 Kr., Damn. Fiske, vol. Ill, p. 500; Hckl., Kn., HUsswasserf. 

 Oitv. Mon., p. 142; Dyeowski, Cypr. Livl., p. 173; Sieb., 



" See Uiid. Betiink: m. Foi-sl. Fiskeristadga J8S.3. p. 154. 

 Scnndinarwn Fishes. 



Siisswasserf. Mitteleur., p. 169; Mgrn, Finl. Fiskfn.. p. 44. 

 Gthr, Cat. Brit, Mus., Fish., vol. VII, p. 310; Coll., Forh. 

 Vid. Selsk. Clirnia 1874, Tilla?gsh., p. 184; 1879, No. 1, 

 p. 96; BxCKE, Fisch. Fischer., Fischz. 0., W. Preiiss., p. 

 130; MOb., Hcke, Fisch. Osts., p. 120; Lill.i., Sv.. A'org. 

 Fn., Fisk., vol. Ill, p. 261. 

 Aspius Linne'i, Malm, Gbys, Buh. Fit., p. 567. 



The Asp is the hirirest European ("ypi-iuoid; and 

 though it cannot rival the giants of the family in In- 

 dia, where Catia Buchanan i, for example, may attain 

 a length of at lea.st 18 dm., still it sometimes reaches 

 in Sweden, according to several corroborative state- 

 ments", a weight of about 8 or 9 kgm. and a length 

 of about 1 m. (9 — 12 dm.). Its ordinaiy size, as it is 

 exposed for sale at Stockholm, is, however, about 4 or 

 5 dm., and its weiglit aljout 2 or .3 kgm. An As]) of 

 5 kgm., wliich may sometimes be seen, is about 8 dm. 

 long. An Asp weighing 1 kgm. measures about 45 

 cm. to the end of the lower caudal lobe. 



The bodv is ratiier elongated and compressed. In 

 ordinary cases the greatest depth is less than ' , 



