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I. Cyprinus carpio Linne. 



Cyprinus carpio Linnc, Syst. nat. ed. X. 1753, p. 320. 

 Cyprinus carpio Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 25. 



D. 3.17—22; A. 3.5; P. 1. 15; V. 1.7—9; L. 1. 35—39; L.tr.j_. 



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 Height of body, length of head, development of fins and 



squamation subject to variation. 



We have seen a specimen from a Chinese fishpond in Kota 

 Radja, Sumatra, which we received under the Chinese name 

 "Ling"; besides we dispose of specimens from Matur, Sumatra. 



From Java has been described the variety.: 



\a. Cyprinus carpio var. flavipinnis C.V. ^). 



Cyprinus flavipinnis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XVI. i842,p. 71. 

 Cyprinus fiavipinna Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XIII. 1857, p. 345. 

 Carpio fiavipinna Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 74. 



D. 4.16— 18; A. 3.5; p. 1. 13— 16; V. 2.8; L. 1. 33—37; 



5-1-6 



L. tr. I . 



71-8 



Height 3.5 — 4.5 in length with caudal, head 3.2 — 3.6, 3.7 — 4.9 

 in length with caudal. Eye 3 — 5.6, in large specimens more 

 than 1.5 in snout and more than twice in interorbital space. 

 Maxillary barbels may be longer than half length of head. 

 Height of dorsal much more than that of body, that of anal 

 less, but more than that of body. Pectorals and ventrals sub- 

 equal, much longer than head. Caudal variable in length, it 

 may be nearly equal to double length of head. Least height 

 of caudal peduncle somewhat more than its own length and 

 about twice in length of head. Olivaceous, back darker, sides 

 lighter or they may be silvery or goldish or the whole fish 

 may be golden. Fins always yellowish, reddish or golden. 



N o m. i n d i g. : Tambra; when golden Tambra mas or Mas 

 Kumpai (Malay, and Sundan.). 



Habitat: In fish ponds in western Java. 



4. Carassius Nilsson. 



(NiLSSON, Prodrom. Ichth. Scandinav. 1832, p. 32). 



Mouth terminal, without barbels. Dorsal long, with the last 



l) Valenciennes described it as a proper species after a drawing of Kuhl 

 & VAN Hasselt. Van Hasselt drew attention to this form in a short publica- 

 tion in Alg. Konst- & Letterbode 1823, II. p. 132, where it was, by misprint, 

 called "floripenna" ; he did not give any description of it. 



