682 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY. 



OARASSIUS, Nils. 

 O. auratus, L. (Cyprinus.) Goldfish. 



Scales large ; no barbels ; dorsal long, third ray a spine ; anal 

 short, with spine ; ventrals well forward ; olivaceous, orange and 

 variegated in domestication. Length, 12 inches, variable. 

 China and Japan; now naturalized in many of our eastern 

 streams. — J. & G. 



CYPRINUS. L. 

 0. carpio, L. European Carp. 



Body robust, compressed; mouth with four long barbels; 

 ' snout blunt; dorsal long (23 rays), with a stout spine; anal 

 short (8 rays), with spine; olivaceous. Length, 18 inches. 

 Domesticated in Europe and America from Asia. Now many 

 varieties. Six-pound carp have been taken in the Delaware, 

 escaped from private ponds. 



Order ISOSPONDYLI. 



No interclavicles nor auditory ossicles; gills four, with slit behind 

 fourth; anterior vertebrae distinct; precoracoid, symplectic and 

 parietal s present. 



Family ALBULIDiE. 



Lady-fishes. 



Tail diphycercal ; maxillaries help form upper jaw ; head naked ; 

 dorsal in front of anal ; mouth small, horizontal ; back of tongue 

 and roof of mouth covered with coarse, pavement-like teeth ; body 

 covered with small, brilliant scales ; snout shaped like that of a pig ; 

 eye large ; pseudobranchiae present ; branchiostegals about fourteen ; 

 belly flattish and scaled ; caudal fin widely forked. 



ALBULA, Gronov. 

 A. vulpes, L. (Esox, L., conorhy^hus, Giinth.) Lady-fish. Bonefish. 



Brilliantly silvery ; olivaceous above, with faint streaks along 

 the rows of scales ; upper lobe of caudal the longer ; a peculiar 



