476 



GUDGEON CYPRINE. Class IV. 



Descrip- 



TIOM". 



pounds in weight, but we have heard of one 

 that weighed ten pounds ; Salvianus speaks of 

 some that arrived at twenty pounds. 



The tench is thick and short in proportion to 

 its length ; the scales are very small, and covered 

 with slime ; the irides are red ; there is some- 

 times, but not always, a small beard at each 

 corner of the mouth. The color of the back 

 is dusky ; the dorsal and ventral fins are of the 

 same color; the head, sides, and belly, of a 

 greenish cast, most beautifully mixed with gold, 

 which is in its greatest splendor when the fish is 

 in the highest season ; the tail is quite even at 

 the end, and very broad. 



4. Gudgeon. Gobio. Ausonius Mosella, 132. 

 Gobio fluviatilis. Salvian, 



214. 

 Goujon de riviere. Belon, 



322. 

 Gobio fluviatilis. Rondel, fiu' 



viat. 206. Gesner pise. 399. 

 Gudgeon. Wil. Ichth. 264. 



Rail syn. pise. 123. 

 Cyprinus quincuncialis macu- 



losus, maxilla superiore lon- 



giore cirris duobus ad os. 



Arted. synon. 2. 



Cyprinus Gobio. C. pinna ani 



radiis ii. cirris 2. Lin. syst. 



Nat. 526. Gm. Lin. 1412. 



Gronov. Zooph. No. 32Q. 

 Le Goujon. Duhamel Tr. des 



Pesches. ii. 497. sect. 3. 



tab. 23. jig. 5. 

 Le Goujon. Block ichth. i. 49- 



tab. 8.f. 2. 

 Le Cyprin goujon. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons, v. 



533. 



ARISTOTLE mentions the gudgeon in two 

 places ; once as a river fish, and again as a 



