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SCAN])1NAVIAN FISHES. 



THE BREAM (sw. braxe.n). 

 AI'.KAMIS BHAMA. 

 Plate XXXIV, fig. 2. 



Scales in the Idfrral Ih>e nhunt '>■'! ('j1 — oG"). Anal p'li irith 2'> — 27'' hyuuthed nn/s. Jh'tiveen the lateral line 



a))<J the dorsal fin 12 — 14 (in exceptional cases 11) rows of scales. Pectoral and ventral fins (jrai/ish /rhite at 



the base. Fharynyeal teeth set in a single row: 5{6) — .5. 



203. Pliaryngeal bones df Ahvantis braiiia, a and li natural size; a, left pharyngeal, seen from aljove; li, the same, seen from without 

 (the left); c, tlie last (uppermost) tooth, seen from beliiml, twice tlie natural size. 



II. Or. 3: 11. 



i__ . p _!!_ 

 —27''' ■ IG— U 



C. .r + 1 + 17 + 1 + ,(•; L. tut. 51—56"; L. 

 Vert. 43—45. 



12—14 



iS'yji. Abrumis, Belon, Nat., Div. I'oiss., p. 318. Vyprinus latus 

 sive Brama, EoNDEL., De Pise. Laciisti:, p. 154; Schonev,, 

 Ichlhyol. Slesv. Hols. p. 33. Vijprinus pinnis omnibus ni- 

 grescentibus, pinna ani ossiculorum viginti septem, Art., 

 Ichlhyol., Gen. Pise, p. G; Syn. Pise, p. 4; Descr. Spec. 

 Pise, p. 20; Lin., Fn. Siiec, eil. I, p. 121. 

 Cyprinus Brama, Lin., iSyst. Nat., od. X, torn. 1, p. 32*5 ;Bl., 

 Fisch. Deutschl., part. I, p. 75, tab. XIII; Retz.. Fii. Siiec. 

 Lin., p. 360; Pall. Zoogr. Ross. Asiat., tom. Ill, p. 325; 

 Ekstr. (subg. Abramis), Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1830, p. 169; 

 NiLSS., Prodr. Ichth. Scand., p. 30; Ekstr., v. \Vr., Skand. 

 Fisk., ed. I, p. 175, tab, 42; Cuv., Val, (Leuciscus), Hist. 

 Nat., Poiss., tom. XVII, p 9; Kr, (Abramis), Danm. Fisk., 

 vol. Ill, p. 369; SuNDEV, (Cyprinus), Stkhlms L. Hush. Sallsk. 

 Haudl. 1855, pp. 81 et 173; NiLss, (Abramis), Ukayid. Fn., 

 Fisk., p. 324; Hckl, Kn., Ausswasserf. Ustr. Man., p, 104; 

 WiDEGR. (Cyprinus), Fiskfn., Fisker. Norrb. L., 1860, pp. 

 7 et 13; Dye. (Abramis), Uypr. Lid., p. 190; Sieb., Suss- 

 wasserf. Mitteleur., p. 121; Morn, Finl. Fiskfn., disp. 



Helsingf., p. 40; WiDEon. (Cyprinus). Landtbr. Akad, Tidskr, 

 1863. pp. 201, 203, 207; Gim (Abramis), Vat. Brit. Mns., 

 Fish., vol. VII, p. 300; Coll., Forh. Vid. Selsk. Chrnia 

 1874, TilUegsh., p. 183; Malm, Obgs, Boh. Fn., p. 565; 

 MoR., Hist. Nat. Poiss. Fr., tom. Ill, p. 395; Bncke, Fisch., 

 Fischer., Fisclu. 0., Tl'. Preiiss., p. 118; Day, Fish. Gt. 

 Brit., Irel., vol. II, p. 193, tab. CXXXV; Mela, Vert. Fenn., 

 p. 332, tab. X; M6b., Hcke, Fisch. Osts., p. 115; NorbAck, 

 Handl. Fiskev., Fiskafv., p. 433; Eeut., Sundm., Finl. Fisk.. 

 tab. VII; LiLLJ., Sv., Nory. Fisk., vol. III, p, 274, 



Cyprinus Farcnns, Ekstr., Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1830, p. 175; 

 NiLSS,, Prodr., 1, c. : — juvenem hujus specie! judicaruut 

 Fries el Ekstr., Skand. Fisk., ed. I, p. 57 (anno 1837). 



Abraniis vetula, Heckel; Abramis microlepidotus + Abr. aryy- 

 reus, Agassiz; Abramis Gehini. Blanchard, vide Siebolp, 1. c. 



Ctbs. After the determination given by Fries and Ekstrom of 

 Artedi's Faren, later writers — Nordmann (Voyage of JJemidof, 3, 

 p. 503), Valenciennes, Nilsson, Siebold, etc. — have adopted this 

 designation as a synonym of Abramis brama. Here as elsewhere, 

 however, the Swedish name proves the safest guide to the correct 

 interpretation of Artedi's species, though a slip of the pen (27 rays 

 in tlie anal tin, instead of 37) has been overlooked both in Syn. Pise. 

 and the short diagnosis in Descr. Spec. Pise. See the note to the 

 following species. 



" Sometimes 49, according to Lill.iedorg, or even 45 (in specimens 16 cm. long), according to Valenciennes; sometimes 63, ac- 

 cording to Day, 



'' 23 — 28, according to Siebold. Sometimes 29, according to Czebnay, 



' Sonietimea 7, according to Kroyer, Sometimes (in our largest specimen) 10, tliougli here the last ray is not divided, in accordance 

 with the general rule, to the base, and is besides slender, being thus best reckoned as a part separated from the ray in front of it, 



'' — . according to Ekstrom, 

 15' 



' Sometimes 7, according to Kroyer, 



