IDS FISHES. ABDOMINALES. 33. Cyprynu- 



118. C. Tinea. Blackish-olive with a gilded tinge, mu- 

 cous : mouth with 2 beards : anal-fin ll-rayed : tail 

 nearly even. 



Tench. Brit. Zool. Hi. p. 359. Bloch t. 14. 



Body 12 or 14 inches long, covered with a thick slime, and very 

 fmall clofely fixed fcales, deep, with thick opake violet fins: heai 

 large, broad, deep green, iris golden : chin white : jaws equal : 

 lateral'line a little curved: belly whitish : dorsa\-<fin lorayed ; pec- 

 toral 16; ventral g; anal 11 ; tail truncate at the bafe and straight 

 in the mjddle, ig-rayed, 



B. Mouth beardless. 



119. C. Carassius. Yellow-olive, with dusky-olive fins : 

 2 first rays of the dorsal-fin serrate : lateraHiue 

 straight : tail nearly entire. 



Crusian, Br. Zool. n. 72. Block, t. 1 1 . 



Body 8 or jo inches long, very deep and.thjck, with a wide dorfaU 

 fin : head fmall, obtufe, varied on the sides with yellow and green r 

 iris silvery, funounded with a golden ring :jaws with 5 broad teeth 

 in each: back carinate before the fin : dorsa\-fin 2o-rayed : pectoral 

 12; ventral 9 ; a??a/ioj tail slightly lu,nate, 22-rayed, 



120. C-. Brama. Broad, arched, olive, beneath flcsb-co* .' 

 lour : fins brown, anal about 29-rayed. 



JBrcam Br. Zool,t. 70, Shaw, v. t. 124, Donovan, t, 93, 



Body 2 feet or more long, covered with .large fcales, very deep, 

 \vithafmalldorfal-fin: head truncate, reddish on the chin : mouth 

 fmall, the upper-jaw a little protruded : iris pale yellow fpotted 

 with black i laterql.line bent down, dotted with black : ventral-fins 

 \vith a conic procefs : dorfal-fin j2-jraye4 J pectoral ij ; ventral 9; 

 anal 29 ; tail forked, ig-rayed, 



121. C. Eri/ihrop/tthulrnus, Olive with a gilded tinge, 

 paler below : iris orange : lower-fins red, 



Rncl. Br. Zool. t. 62, Donov. t. 40, Bloch. 1. 1. 



Eody 8 or 10 inches long, broad, covered with large fcales, green- 

 ish above the lateral-line; head fmall ; jaws equal, the lower-one 

 a little curved : teeth ferrate, in 2 rows : nostrils large : back arched, 

 carinate before the fin which is placed below the middle : lateral-' 

 line a little curved downwards, with about 30 raifed dots : dorsal-fin. 

 greenish, cd^ed with red, n-rayed; federally, ventral jo; anal 

 12-15; /fliV forked, ao-rayed. 



122. C Rvtilus, yellowish-silvery, dusky-green on the 

 hack : fins red ; anal fin J2-rayed, 



Roach, Donovan's Fishes t, 67. Bloch t, s. 



Body much refembling the Rud, but is longer and slenderer, and 

 the jaws have each a row of 5 compressed teeth : lips red : back a 

 Jittle arched : lateral-line bent down, with about 36 dots : dorfal-fin 

 in the rnvddle of the back forayed j pectoral 13 ; ve ntral 9 j anal 

 12 : tail deeply forked, 22'rayed, 



123. C. auratus. Splendid gold-red, with scarlet fins : 

 anal-fin double, placed like the ventral ; tail often 3 

 or 4-parted, 



Golden Carp, Goldfish. Shaw ZoiA. v. t. 106. 127. Edwards t. 209, 

 Naturalized from China, and is found in great plenty in the ditches 



between 'Camberwcll and London. 



Body varying much in siie, colour, and appearance of the fins, co 



V?ith large fcales : head short, v/ith equal jaws; nostrils tubular : 

 : iris golden i gill-covers 2-leaved : \atera\-\inc straight, nearer the 



back: dcriai-jin 2c-rayed ; pectoral 16; ventral n; anal 9; 'tail 



