CUUC'IAN CARP. 811 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYGIL CYPRINIDJE. 



THE CRUCIAN CARP. PRUSSIAN CARP. 

 CROWGER. Warwickshire, 



Cyprinus gibelio, BLOCK, pt. i. pi. 12. 



,, ,, Gibele Carp, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 480, pi. 83. 



,, ,, Gibel, FLEM. Brit. An. 



,, - ,, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 271. 



PENNANT considers the Crucian Carp as a naturalised 

 species in this country, into which it is said to have been 

 introduced from Germany ; but, as in the case of the Com- 

 mon Carp, the country from which the Crucian was brought, 

 and the year in which it was introduced, are both enveloped 

 in obscurity. 



The Crucian Carp is found in some of the ponds about 

 London, particularly in the vicinity of the Thames, a few 

 miles upwards to the west of the metropolis ; and the floods 

 that occasionally happen are supposed to be the means 

 by which this species has been carried into the Thames, 

 from whence individuals of large size are sometimes obtained. 

 It is also known to be very common in several counties of 



