109 FISHES. ABDOMINALES. 33. Cyprynus. 



118. C. Tinea. Blackish-olive with a gilded tinge, mu- 

 cous : mouth with 2 beards : anal-fin 11-raycd : tail 

 nearly even. 



Tench. Brit, Zool. iii. p. 359. Block t. 14. 



Body 12 or 14 inches long, covered with a thick slime, and very 

 fmall clofely fixed fcales, deep, with thick opake violet fins: head. 

 large, broad, deep green, iris golden : chin white : jaws equal : 

 lateral-line a little curved : belly whitish : dorsal-fin 10-rayed ; pec- 

 toral 16 ; ventral g; anal 11 ; tail truncate at the bafe and straight 

 in the middle, 19-rayed, 



B. Mouth beardless. 



119. C. Carassius. Yellow-olive, with dusky-olive fins : 

 2 first rays of the dorsal-fin serrate : lateral-line 

 straight: tail nearly entire. 



Crusian. Br. Zool. n. 72. Block, t. 11. 



Body 8 or jo inches long, very deep and thick, with a wide dorfal- 

 fin : head fmall, obtufe, varied on the sides with yellow and green * 

 iris silvery, funounded with a golden ring :jaws with 5 broad teeth 

 in each: bach carinate before the fin : dorsal-Jin 20-rayed : pectoral 

 12 ; ventral 9 ; anal 10 ; tail slightly lunate, 22-rayed. 



120. C. Brqma. Broad, arched, olive, beneath flesh-co- 

 lour : fins brown, anal about 29-rayed. 



Bream Br. Zool. t. 70. Shaw. v. t. 124. Donovan, t. 93. 



Body q feet or more long, covered with large fcales, very deep, 

 with a fmall dorfal-fin : head truncate, reddish on the chin : mouth 

 - fmall, the upper-jaw a little protruded : His pale yellow fpotted 

 with black : lateral-line bent down, dotted with black : ventral-fins 

 with a conic procefs : dorfal-fin i2»rayed ; pectoral 17 ; ventral 9 ; 

 anal 29 ; tail forked, iq-rayed, 



12 J. C.Erythrojphthalmus, Olive with a gilded tinge, 

 paler below : iris orange : lower^fins red, 



Rud. Br. Zool. t. 62, Donov. t. 40. Block, t.i. 



Body 8 or 10 inches long, broad, covered with large fcales, green- 

 ish above the lateral-line: head fmall ; jaws equal, the lower-one 

 9. little curved : teeth ferrate, in 2 rows : nostrils large : back arched, 

 carinate before the fin which is placed below the middle : laterat- 

 line a little curved downwards, with about 30 raifed dots : dorsal-fin 

 greenish, edged with red, 11-rayed ; pectoral 19; ventral to; anal 

 12-15; tail forked, 20-rayed. 



122. C Rutilus. Yellowish-silvery, dusky-green on the 

 back ; fins red ; anal fin I2-rayed, 



Roach. Donovan's Fishes t. 67. Block t, 2» 



Body much refemblinff the Rud, but is longer and slenderer, and 

 the jaws have each a row of 5 compressed teeth : lips red : bach a 

 little arched ; lateral-line bent dpwn, with about 36 dots : dorfal-fin 

 in the middle of the back lorayedj pectoral 13 j ventral 9 j anal 

 12 • tail deeply forked, 22-rayed. 



123. C. auratus, Splendid gold-red, with scarlet fins j 

 anal-fin double, placed like the ventral : tail often S 

 or 4-parted. 



Golden Carp, Goldfish. Shaw Zool. v. f. 126. 127. Edpuards t. 209. 



Naturalized from China, and is found in great plenty in the ditches 

 between Camberwell and London. 



Body varying much in size, colour, and appearance of the fin$, co- 

 with large fcales : head short, with equal jaws ; nostrils tubular ; 

 iri s golden : gill-covers^ 2-leaved ; lateral-line straight, nearer the 

 faack : dorsal-fin 20-rayed j pectoral 16; ventral iij anal 9; tail 

 grayed. 



