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Cyprinus (CARASSIUS) BURGERI, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. Rad. D.3{15 ; 
A. 3|5; C.19%; P.17; V.9. (Spec. Br. Mus.) 
The specimen in the British Museum is four inches long, and is named by the authors of 
the ‘ Fauna Japonica.’ It may possibly be the same with the preceding, which it resembles in 
outline, but it has fewer dorsal rays. There are thirty-one scales bearing tubes on the lateral 
line, and twelve rows in the height of the fish. It seems to have been a paler fish than the 
following species. 
Hab. Japan. 
CypRINUS GIBELIOIDES, Cantor, Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 29. Icon. Reeves, 123 ; 
Hardw. Malac.10. Chinese name, 7’sih* yu (Birch); Tsth u, “ Pattern 
carp” (Reeves). Rad. B.3; D.4|17; A. 3|6; C.182; P.18; V.9. 
As M. Valenciennes compares C. langsdorfii to gibelio, it is possible that Dr. Cantor’s fish 
may be the same. Several of Dr. Cantor’s specimens have reached the British Museum 
through the India House, one of them labelled C. nigrescens, which was probably merely a 
provisional name, and changed when Dr. Cantor drew up his paper. In form the fish is re- 
gular and ratherelegant. Its face is convex, and the shoulder ascends in a gentle arch to the 
dorsal. The head makes rather less than a fourth part of the length of the whole fish; the 
height of the body is contained three times and a quarter in the length, and the thickness rather 
more than seven times, or twice and one-third in the height. The mouth is small, not being 
cleft as far as the nostrils. The symphysis of the lower jaw rises in the form of a minute obtuse 
point. The lateral line is straight or very slightly decurved, and is traced on twenty-seven 
scales. There are thirteen rows of scales in the height : each scale is marked on the disc by 
streaks radiating from the centre. The dorsal commences over the ventrals and extends back 
to the middle of the short anal. It has four spines, of which the two anterior ones are very 
minute: the fourth one is strongly toothed behind, and its flexible tip is also toothed. The 
same is the case with the third anal spine. The posterior pair of soft rays in both fins are 
approximated at the base. The colour on the back is greenish-gray, deepening at the base of 
the scales to blackish-gray, becoming lighter inferiorly and changing to an ochraceous tint on 
the breast. The fins are greenish or blackish-gray, of different degrees of intensity, and their 
edges when folded are blackish. The pectoral and anal fins are red on their fore-edges. The 
figure is 74 inches long; the smallest specimen only 23 inches. 
Hab. Canton. Chusan. 
Cyprinus (cARASSIUS) CUVIERI, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. ad. D. 3|18 ; 
A. 3|5; C. 198; P.17; A.9. (Jap. Spec. Br. Mus. length 4 inches.) 
This is much like gibelioides, and may prove to be the same, in which case Dr. Cantor’s 
name has the priority. It seems rather more slender, and has a shorter and more delicate 
pectoral. 
Hab. Japan. 
Cyprinus LANGsDoRFII, C. et V. xvi. p. 99. 
The ‘Icones Piscium 24 a pictore Sinensi,’ &c., include three figures which may belong to 
this species, if they are not referable to the gébelioides of Cantor. They have the lobes of the 
caudal and the sinus between them much more obtuse than those of gibelioides, or of Reeves’s 
figure 123, and apparently the large suborbitar of langsdorfii. Their lengths are 6 inches, 
54 and 3 inches respectively. 
Hab. Japan. 
CyPRINUS THORACATUs, C. et V. xvi. p. 97. 
M. Valenciennes refers to this species a Japanese painting of a fish whose Chinese name is 
tsi, but this is a generic appellation apparently equivalent to Carassius. 
Hab. Mauritius (and Japan ?). 
CypRINUS ABBREVIATUS, Richardson. Jcon. Reeves, 124; Hardw. Malac. 
13. Chinese name, Sih hith tséih { (Birch) ; Suh kwut sih, “ Contracted 
bone carp” (Reeves) ; Shuk kwat tsik (Bridgem. Chrest. 20). Length of 
drawing 7% inches. 
* Tsth is one of the names of the cuttle fish. 
+ The teeth of the spines are omitted in the figure, 
t “The fish which has the power of raising and depressing, or rather puckering its bone.” 
