1839.] Indian Cyprinidce. 659 



« GENERAL VIEW OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF CYPRINIDCE 



Family. Sub-fam. 



P^EONOMINiE 



McClell. 



Genus. 



Sub-gen, 



Cypri- 

 Cuv. 



Cirrhinus Cuv 



Labeo Cuv. 

 Catastomus Leseur, . . 



Barbus Cuv 



Oreirms McClell. 



Cyprinus prop. Cuv 



Gobio Cuv 



Tinea Cuv. 

 Gonorhynchus Gron 



fc o 



J. A 



-21- 115 



_ 19 - 19 



4 — 11 — 2 1 — 18 



6 _ 4? 4? 14? 



2 — 16 18 



1 1 



10 - - 1-H 



Sarcoborin^e 

 McClell. 



Systomus McClell 12 12 



Abramis Cuv. 5 1 1 7 



Rhodeus Agass. ) Fossil Genera in the lacustrine deposit 

 Apius Agass. $ of CEningen. 



Perilampus McClell 12 



Leuciscus Klein 13? 



Opsarius McClell — 



{ Pseciliaprop./S'cAw.-- 



I Lebias Cuv. . . 1 

 Paecilia 1 FundulusZ-acep. 5? 

 McClell. \ Molinesia Leseur, — 



I CyprinodonZ.acep. 2 



4? 9 — 

 — 12 — 



— 26 

 12 



3 



Apalopteri- 

 NjE McClell. 



v AplochelusMcaeW. — 3 



Anebleps Bl. 



Platycara McClell 



Psilorhynchus McClell. 



3 — 



2 — 



Cobitis S Cobitis propria McCl. 2 

 Lin. I Schistura McClell. — 



12 15 



11 11 



42 37 139 4 2 4 1 229 



" The American species of this family referred to in the Regne* Ani- 

 mal, only amount to thirty-three, but Dr. Richardson in his report on 

 North American Zoology mentions nearly as many more, imperfectly 

 indicated by Rafinesque Smaltz, and other writers as belonging to the 

 rivers and lakes of the new world j* still however the preponderance 

 of species in favour of India is so remarkable, that it is only by extend- 

 ing our consideration to other genera of the order Malacopterygii ab- 

 dominales that we find the equilibrium restored in the distribution of 

 fresh- water fishes. Thus the Salmonidce which form a large propor- 

 tion of that order in the rivers of both Europe and America, are in 

 India quite unknown, not one species of that extensive family having 



" * I have not yet seen the volume of Fauna Boreali Americana by Dr. Richardson, 

 which is devoted to Ichthyology, the volume on Birds being the only part of that im- 

 portant work which has reached India. 



