TENCH CYPRINE. 



Class IV. 



on the incautious handler, and even do much 

 damage to the nets ; the pectoral fins are of 

 a pale brown color ; the ventral and anal tipped 

 with yellow ; the tail a little bifurcated, and of 

 a deep purple; the side line is strait. The 

 scales are of a pale gold color, edged with 

 black ; the belly is white. 



3. Tench. Tinea. Ausonias Mosella, 123. 



Tinea. Jovius, 124. 



Tinea, Tenca. Salvian, go. 



La Tanche. Belon, 325 . 



Tinea. Rondel, fluviat. 157. 

 Gesner pise. g84. 



Schley, Slye. Schonevelde, 76. 



Tench. Wil. lchth. 251. Rail 

 syn. pise. 117. 



Cyprinus mucosus totus ni- 

 grescens, extremitate caudae 

 sequali. Arted. synon. 5. 



Cyprinus Tinea. C. pinna ani 

 radiis 25, cauda integra, cor- 

 pore mucoso, cirris 2. Lin. 



Syst. 526. Gm. Lin. 1413. 



Gronov. Zooph. No. 328. 

 Suture, Linnare, Skomakare. 



Faun. Suec. No. 363. 

 Schleihe, Schlegen. WulffBo- 



russ. No. 55. 

 La Tanche. Duhamel Tr. des 



Pesches, ii. 506. sect. 3. tab. 



25. Jig. 2. 

 La Tanche. Bloch ichth. i. 70. 



tab. 14. 

 Le Cyprin tanche. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons. v. 



537. 



X HE tench underwent the same fate with the 

 barbel, in respect to the notice taken of it by 

 the early writers ; and even Ausonius, who first 

 mentions it, treats it with such disrespect, as 

 evinces the great capriciousness of taste; for 

 that fish, which at present is held in such good 



