Class IV. MINOW CYPRINE. 



The eyes are large ; the irides of a pale yel- 

 low; the under jaw the longest; the lateral line 

 crooked ; the gills silvery ; the back green ; the 

 sides and belly silvery ; the fins pellucid ; the 

 scales fall off very easily; the tail much 

 forked. 



489 



$otivo$ ? Arist. Hist. an. VI. 

 c. 13. 



Le Veron. Belon, 324. 



Pisciculus varius. Rondel. flu- 

 vial. 205. 



Phoscium qui vulgo veronus 

 (quasi varius) dicitur, Bel- 

 lonius, Gesner pise. 715. 



Elritze, Elderitze. Sckone- 

 velde, 57. 



Pink, Minim, or Minow. 

 Wil. ichth. 268. Raii syn. 

 pise. 125. 



Cyprinus tridactylus varius 

 oblongus teretiusculus, pin- 



na ani ossiculorum octo. 13. MiKOW. 



Arted. synon. 12. 

 Cyprinus Phoxinus. Cyp. pin- 

 na ani radiis 8. macula fusca 



ad caudam, corpore pelluci- 



do. Lin. syst. 528. Gm. 



Lin. 1422. 

 Le Veron. Duhamel Tr. des 



Pesches. ii. 515. sect. 3. tal. 



26.flg.7- 

 Le Veron. Block ichth. i. 51.. 



tab. 8.f. 5. 

 Le Cyprin Veron. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons. v. 



573. 



tion 



J_ HIS beautiful fish is frequent in many of our Descrip- 

 small gravelly streams, where it keeps in shoals. 

 The body is slender and smooth, the scales 

 being extremely small. It seldom exceeds three 

 inches in length. 



