CARPS. 
733 
THE GOLDFISH (s\v. guldfisken). 
CYPPJNUS AURATUS. 
Plate XXXI, fig. 2. 
No barbels. Preabdominal length ( distance between the foremost { uppermost ) points in the insertions of the pec- 
toral and ventral fins) less than 3 / 5 of the length of the base of the dorsal fin. Length of the lower jaw more 
than 3 /s °f H ie preabdominal length. 5 or 6 scales in an oblique transverse row between the later al line and the 
anterior part of the base of the dorsal fin. Pharyngeal teeth set in one row , transversely (in front and behind ) 
compressed , and with one groove in the masticatory surface: 4 — 4. 
Fig. 180. 
Pharyngeal bone (left) and pharyngeal cartilage of Cyprinus auratus , magn. 3 diam. 
a, b, and c as in the preceding figure. 
R. hr. 3; D. — .4. 2 — ; P. - V. — : 
18®— 20 5—7 15 6 8 c 
C. x + 1 + 17 4- 1 + Lin. lat. 29 d — 30; Lin. tr. - 1 
7 
Vert. 30—31. 
Syn. Cyprinus pinna ani duplici, caudce trifurca, Lin. Vet. Akad. 
Handl. 1740, p. 403, tab. I, figg. 1 — 8; Fn. Suec ., ed. I, 
p. 125, tab. II, fig. ad. num. 331. 
Cyprinus auratus , Lin., Syst. Nat., ed. X, tom. I, p. 322; 
Raster, Opusc. subseciva, tom. II, lib. II, p. 78, tab. IX; 
Bl., Fisch. Deut.schl., part. Ill, p. 132, tab. XCIII et XCIV 
(+ Cypr. macrophthalmus, Ausl. Fiscli., part. IX, p. 51, 
tab. CCCCX); Lacep. {Cypr. auratus + C. argenteus 4- C. 
telescopus + C. macrophthalmus + C. quadrilobatus ) Ilist. 
Nat. Poiss., tom. V, p. 553; Yarr, Brit. Fish. ed. I, vol. 
I, p. 315; Cuv., Val. {Cypr. lineatus — obs. tamen D: 4 /o 3 > 
Lin. lat. 33; Lin. tr. 11 — + C. thoracatus + C. Langs- 
dorfii + C. auratus ) Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. XVI, p. 96, 
cett. ; Richards. {Cypr. lineatus + C. carassioides (ex Gray) 
+ C. Burgeri + C. gibelioides (ex Cant.) + C. Cuvieri + 
C. Langsdorfii + C. thoracatus + C. abbreviatus + C. au- 
ratus) Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1845, p. 291, cett.; Basil. {Caras- 
sius Pekinensis + Car. coeruleus + Car. discolor + Cyprinus 
auratus + Cypr. macrophthalmus + Cypr. quadrilobatus) 
Nouv. Mem. Soc. Natur. Mosc., tom. X (1855), p. 229, cett., 
tab. Ill, fig. 3, tab. V, figg. 1 — 5, tab. IX, fig. 2; Blanch. 
( Cyprinopsis , ex Fitz.) Poiss. cl. eaux clouces Fr., p. 343; 
Gthr {Carassivs) Brit. Mus. Cat., Fish., vol. VII, p 32; 
Fedders., Naturh. Tidskr. Kbhvn, ser. 3, vol. XII, p. 83; 
Fatio, Fn. Vert. Suisse, vol. IV, part. I, p. 205; Day, Fish. 
Gt. Brit., Irel. , vol. II, p. 166,. tab. CXXX, fig. 2; Lillj. 
{Cyprinus) Sv., Norg. Fn., Fisk., vol. Ill, p. 158. 
Carassius Langsdorffii + Car. Burgeri + Car. Cuvieri + Car. 
grandoculis, Schleg. (Sieb.) Fn. Japan. Poiss. p. 192, cett. 
tab. XCVI1I. 
The Goldfish is everywhere so well knotvn that any 
special description of it seems unnecessary. In its nor- 
mal type it is an intermediate form between the Carp 
and Crucian Carp, with a more shallow and more terete 
body and longer dorsal fin than the latter. During 
youth, hoAvever, the Crucian Carp and the Goldfish may 
be almost exactly similar in these respects, especially as 
the Goldfish undergoes exceedingly great variations in a 
domesticated state. The rule is that the latter generally 
has comparatively larger fins and shorter preabdominal 
region than either the Carp or the Crucian Carp, the 
young Goldfish being thus most easily recognised — 
where the coloration does not decide the question — by 
the fact that the tips of the pectoral fins extend behind 
the perpendicular from the insertions of the ventral fins. 
The Goldfish, the hin-ju of the Chinese, has its 
original home “in a small lake, Tschekiangb near the 
a Sometimes 
b 
11 
e In modern 
15, according to Fatio and Canestrini. 
14, „ ,, Fatio. 
9, ,, ,, Fatio. 
25, ,, ,, Fatio and Canestrini. 
maps Tschekiang is the name given to 
one of the eastern provinces of China, on the coast, between 27° — 31° 
N. lat. 
