94 CLASS XIV. 



Leuciscus KLEIN, Cuv. Dorsal and anal fins without osseous ray. 

 Mouth anterior or superior, with soft lips. Pharyngeal teeth unci- 

 nate. Abdomen behind ventral fins more or less carinate. Cirri 

 mostly none, more rarely two or four. 



Sp. Cyprinus erythrophthalmus L., BLOCK 7cA^A. Tab. i, Skandinaviens Fiskar, 

 PI. 1 6 ; the red-eye or rud ; Cyprinus rutilus L., BLOCK IcJdh. Tab. 2, 

 Skand. Fiskar, PI. 15, the roach, &c. 



A very numerous sub-genus ; the scales are generally of moderate size ; 

 they are small in Phacinus AGASS. 



Here belong the genera Squalius and Scardinius BONAP., Idus, Leucos, 

 Phoxinellus, Argyreus, and Leucosomus of HECKEL and Opsarius of MAC- 

 CLELLAND (in part). 



b) Anal fin longer than dorsal. 



* Mouth superior ; lower jaw ascending at the apex. 



Aspius AGASSIZ (Aspius and Alburnus HECK.) Dorsal and anal 

 fins without osseous ray. Cirri none. Body subcompressed, rotun- 

 date beneath. Pharyngeal teeth uncinate. Dorsal fin placed above 

 the space between the ventral fins and the anal fin. 



Sp. Cyprinus alburnus L., BLOCK Ichth. Tab. 8, fig. 4, Skandin. Fiskar, 

 PI. 5 1 ; the lleak, &c. 



Chela Cuv. (Pelecus AGASS.). Dorsal and* -anal fins without 

 osseous ray. Cirri sometimes four or two, mostly none. Body cari- 

 nate beneath, compressed or cultrate. Pharyngeal teeth uncinate. 

 Dorsal fin remote, placed over anal. 



Sp. Cyprinus cultratus L., Leuciscus cuUratus VALENC., BLOCK Ichth. Tab. 37, 

 in Russia, &c. Here are arranged some species from India. The genus 

 Nuria of VALENCIENNES is characterised by the presence of two or four 

 long barbules. 



** Mouth anterior. (Cirri none). 



a) Dorsal and anal fins without osseous ray. 



Abramis Cuv. (Blicca, JBliccojysis, Abramis, Ballerus HECK.). 



Sp. Cyprinus Braina L., BLOCK Ichth. Tab. 13, STcandin. Fiskar, PI. 41 ; the 

 'bream, la breme; high ; the long anal fin has 28 to 29 rays. This fish at- 

 tains a length of more than i'. 



/3) Dorsal fin with osseous ray. 



Sub-genera: Acanthobrama, Osteobrama, Glossodon HECKEL. 



