CYPRINUS.] PISCES (OSSEI) MALACOPT. 401 



LENGTH. From four to five inches. 



DESCRIPT. (Form.) "Body oval, compressed: snout elongated, the 

 jaw-bones forming a tube extending an inch and a half before the eyes ; 

 mouth placed at the extremity, small, without teeth : eyes large : back 

 elevated, forming a slight ridge, and ending in a short spine just in 

 advance of the long and strong denticulated spine of the first dorsal fin : 

 scales on the body hard, rough, minutely ciliated at the free edge, the 

 surface granulated : first dorsal with but three spinous rays (generally 

 said to be four) ; the first three times as long as, and also much stronger 

 than, the others, pointed, moveable, and toothed like a saw on the under 

 part, constituting a formidable weapon of defence; the other spines short, 

 but their points projecting beyond the membrane by which they are 

 united : the rays of the second dorsal soft : anal elongated ; the rays 

 short: pectorals small: ventrals also small, with a depression behind 

 in which they can be lodged. 



D. 412; A. 18; C. 16; P. 17; V. 4. 



(Colours.) Back red, the sides rather lighter; sides of the head and 

 belly silvery, tinged with gold-colour : irides silvery, streaked with red ; 

 pupils black: all the fins grayish white." YARR. 



An individual of this species is recorded to have been thrown on shore 

 at Menabilly near Fowey, Cornwall, early in the year 1804*. Donovan 

 appears to have been acquainted with one or two other instances in 

 which it had occurred on the western coasts of England. Common in 

 the Mediterranean. 



ORDER II. MALACOPTERYGII. 



(I. ABDOMINALES.) 



GEN. 35. CYPRINUS, Linn. 



(* 1. CYPRINUS, Cuv.) 

 * With barbules. 



* 80. C. Carpio, Linn. (Common Carp.) Mouth with two barbules 

 on each side : caudal forked. 



C. Carpio, Linn. Syst. Nat. torn. i. p. 525. Block, Ichth. pi. 16. Turt. Brit. 

 Faun. p. 107. Don. Brit. Fish. vol. v. pi. 110. Flem. Brit. An. p. 185. 

 Carp, Will. Hist. Pise. p. 245. tab. Q. 1. f. 2. Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. in. 

 p. 353. pi. 70. Id. (Edit. 1812.) vol. in. p. 467. pi. 81. Bowd. Brit. fr. 

 wat. Fish. Draw. no. 2. Yarr. Brit. Fish. vol. i. p. 305. La Carpe vulgaire, 

 Cuv. Reg. An. torn. n. p. 271. 



* Linn. Trans, vol. vm. p. 358. 



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