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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 
THE MINNOW (sw. elritzan). 
PHOXINUS APHYA. 
Plate XXXIII, fig. 3, c? and $. 
Body elongated and terete , its greatest depth being less than 1 f 5 (17 — 19 V 2 %) of its length a , greatest thickness 
at least half the greatest depth , and least depth ( least depth of the tail) less than half the greatest depth or than 
V 3 of the length of the tail from a line with the end of the base of the anal fin to ■ the middle of the base of 
the caudal fin ■ Length of the head about 21 — 23 V 2 % of that of the body. Pharyngeal teeth pointed, hooked at 
the tip, with the masticatory surface sharpened , but smooth or even hardly distinguishable, and set in a double or 
single roiv: 2, 5(4) — 4(5), 2 or 5 — 4. 
a b 
Fig. 188. Pharyngeal bones ( a and b, as in the preceding figure) and covering of the pharyngeal process (c) in Phoxinus aphyci. 
Magn. 3 diam. 
R. br. 3; D. 
(2)3 
A. 
(2)3 
V. 
(1)2 
P. 
7(8)’ “ (6)7’ " (6)7(8)’ 
C. x 4- 1 4- 1 7 4- 1 4- xi L. lat. (85)90 — 110; P. tr. 
Vert. 38 — 40. 
1 
13 — 16 6 ’ 
15—20 
14 — 16’ 
>Syn. Oi cpofivoi, Aristot., De Anim., lib. VI, cap. XIII et XIV. 
Phoxinus , Veron, Belon, Nat., Div. Poiss., p. 324. Pisci- 
culus varius, Rond., De Pise., part. II, p. 205. Phoxinus 
Icevis , Schonev., Ichthyol. Slesv. Hols. p. 57. Cyprinus tri- 
dactylus varius oblongus teretiusculus, pinna ani ossiculorum 
octo, Art., Ichthyol., Syn. Pise., p. 12 4- Cyprinus biunci' 
alis, iridibus rubris, pinna ani ossiculorum novem, Id., ibid, 
(excl. syn. Schonev.) et Descr. Spec. Pise., p. 30. Lin., Fn. 
Suec., ed. I, p. 125, No. 331; Id., Alkufwa , It. Westroy., 
p. 232. 
Cyprinus Phoxinus, Lin., Syst. Nat., ed. X, tom. I, p. 322; 
Bl. Fisch. Deutschl., part. I, p. 60, tab. VIII, fig. 5; Retz.. 
Fn. Suec. Lin., p. 356; Pall. Zoogr. Ross. Asiat., tom. 
Ill, p. 330; Flmng ( Leuciscus ), Brit. Anim., p. 188; Ekstr., 
{Cyprinus), Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1830, p. 166; Nilss., Prodr. 
Ichthyol. Scand., p. 29; Id. ( Leuciscus ), Skand. Fn., Fisk., 
p. 319; Sundev. {Cyprinus), Stkhlms L. Hush. Sails. Handl., 
H. 6 (1855), pp. 82 et 175; Thomps. {Leuciscus), Nat. 
Hist. Irel., vol. IV, p. 138; Lindstr., Goth L. Hush. Sallsk. 
Arsber. 1866, p. 18 (sep.); Gthr, 1. c. ; Olsson, Of vers. 
Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1876, No. 3, p. 131; 1882, No. 10, p. 
48; Day, Fish. Gt. Brit., Irel., vol. II, p. 185, tab. CXXXIV 
fig. 1; Mob., Hcke, Fisch. Osts., p. 113. 
Cyprinus Aphya, Lin., Syst., 1. c., p. 323; Bl., 1. c., part. Ill, 
p. 143, tab. XCVII, fig. 2, quae figura tamen pessima potius 
forsan ad Leuc. grislaginem referenda; Retz., 1. c.; Nilss., 
Prodr., 1. c. ; Kr. {Phoxinus), Damn. Fisk., vol. Ill, p. 524; 
Coll., Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christ. 1874, Tilla?gsh., p. 183; 
1879, No. 1, p. 96; N. Mag. Naturv. Christ., Bd. 29 (1884), 
p. Ill; Malm, Gbgs, Boh. Fn., p. 564; Fedders., Naturb. 
Tidskr. Kbhvn, ser. 3, vol. XII, p. 91; Mela, Vert. Fenn., 
p. 321, tab. X; Lillj., Sv., Norg. Fisk., vol. Ill, p. 179. 
Cyprinus rivularis, Pall., Russ. Reis., part. II, p. 717. 
Phoxinus Icevis , Agass., 1. c. ; Hckl, Kn., Susswasserf. Oestr. 
Mon., p. 210; Dybowski, Cypr. Livl ., p. 105; Sieb., Siiss- 
wasserf. Mitteleur., p. 222; Mgrn, Finl. Fiskfn. (disp. 
Helsingf. 1863), p. 48; Bncke, Fisch., Fischer ., Fischz. 0., 
IF. Preuss., p. 141; Mor., Hist. Nat. Poiss., tom. ID, p. 
392; Fatio, Fn. Vert. Suisse, vol. IV, p. 638. 
The Minnow is the smallest Scandinavian Cyprinoid, 
with the exception of the Owsianka (Leucaspius de- 
lineal us), and is generally no larger than the latter. 
Its ordinary length in Sweden is about 6- — 9 cm. Our 
largest specimen, from Lake Korn in Northern Bohus- 
lan, measures 105 mm. to the end of the caudal lobes 
“ Except in gravid females. 
b Fewest in the males, in which, according to Fatio, the number is further reduced during the spawning-season. 
