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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES.. 
THE BREAM (sw. braxen). 
ABRAMIS BRAMA. 
Plate XXXIV, fig. 2. 
Scales in the lateral line about 53 (51 — 56°). Anal fin with 25 — 27 h branched rays. Between the lateral line 
and the dorsal fin 12 — 14 (in exceptional . cases 11) rows of scales. Pectoral and ventral fins grayish white at 
the base. Pharyngeal teeth set in a single row: 5(6 ) — 5. 
Fig. 203. Pharyngeal bones of Abrarnis brarna , a and b natural size; a , left pharyngeal, seen from above; b, the same, seen from without 
(the left); c, the last (uppermost) tooth, seen from behind, twice the natural size. 
R. br. 3; D. 
3 l d 2 
• p • V — 
25 — 27 b ' ' 16—18’ ' 8' 
C. x + 1 4- 17 + 1 + x; L. lat. 51 — 56“ ; L. tr. — - 1; 
Vert. 43 — 45. 
Sijn. Abramis , Belon, Nat., Div. Poiss., p. 318. Cyprinus latus 
sive Brama , Rondel., Be Pise. Lacustr., p. 154; Schonev., 
Ichthyol. Slesv. Hols. p. 33. Cyprinus pinnis omnibus ni- 
grescentibus, pinna ani ossieulorum viginti septem, x\.rt., 
Ichthyol., Gen. Pise., p. 6; Syn. Pise., p. 4; Descr. Spec. 
Pise., p. 20; Lin., Fn. Suec., ed. I, p. 121. 
Cyprinus Brama, Lin., Syst. Nat., ed. X, tom. I, p. 326; Bl., 
Fisch. Deutschl., part. I, p. 75, tab. XIII; Retz.. Fn. Suec. 
Lin., p. 360; Pall. Zoogr. Ross. Asiat., tom. Ill, p. 325; 
Ekstr. (subg. Abramis ), Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1830, p. 169; 
Nilss., Prodr. Ichth. Scand ., p. 30; Ekstr., v. We., Skand. 
Fisk., ed. I, p. 175, tab. 42; Cuv., Val. ( Leuciscus ), Hist. 
Nat., Poiss., tom. XVII, p 9; Kr. ( Abramis ), Danm. Fisk., 
vol. Ill, p. 369; Sundev. {Cyprinus'), Stkhlms L. Hush. Sallsk. 
Handl. 1855, pp. 81 et 173; Nilss. {Abramis), Skand. Fn., 
Fisk., p. 324; Hckl, Kn., Siisswasserf. Ostr. Mon., p. 104; 
Widegr. {Cyprinus), Fiskfn., Fisker. Norrb. L ., 1860, pp. 
7 et 13; Dyb. {Abramis), Cypr. Livl., p. 190; Sieb., Suss- 
wasserf. Mitteleur., p. 121; Mgrn, Finl. Fiskfn., disp. 
Helsingf., p. 40; Widegr. {Cyprinus), Landtbr. Akad. Tidskr. 
1863, pp. 201, 203, 207; Gthr {Abramis), Gat. Brit. Mus., 
Fish., vol. VII, p. 300; Coll., Fork. Vid. Selsk. Chrnia 
1874, Tillaegsh., p. 183; Malm, Gbgs, Boh. Fn., p. 565; 
Mor., Hist. Nat. Poiss. Fr., tom. Ill, p. 395; Bncke, Fisch., 
Fischer., Fischz. O., W. Preuss., p. 118; Day, Fish. Gt. 
Brit., Irel., vol. II, p. 193, tab. CXXXV; Mela, Vert. Fenn., 
p. 332, tab. X; Mob., Hcke, Fisch. Osts., p. 115; NorbAck, 
Handl. Fiskev., Fiskafv., p. 433; Reut., Sundm., Finl. Fisk., 
tab. VII; Lillj., Sv., Norg. Fislc., vol. Ill, p. 274. 
Cyprinus Farenus, Ekstr., Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1830, p. 175; 
Nilss., Prodr., 1. c. ; — juvenem hujus speciei judicarunt 
Fries et Ekstr., Skand. Fisk., ed. I, p. 57 (anno 1837). 
Abramis vetula, PIeckel; Abramis microlepiclotus + Abr. argy- 
reus, Agassiz; Abramis Gehini, Blanchard, vide Siebold, 1. c. 
Obs. After the determination given by Fries and Ekstrom of 
Artedi’s Faren, later writers — Nordmann {Voyage of Demidoff, 3, 
p. 503), Valenciennes, Nilsson, Siebold, etc. — have adopted this 
designation as a synonym of Abramis brama. Here as elsewhere, 
however, the Swedish name proves the safest guide to the correct 
interpretation of Artedi's species, though a slip of the pen (27 rays 
in the anal tin, instead of 37) has been overlooked both in Syn. Pise. 
and the short diagnosis in Descr. Spec. Pise. See the note to the 
following species. 
a Sometimes 49, according to Lilljeborg, or even 45 (in specimens 16 cm. long), according to Valenciennes; sometimes 63, ac- 
cording to Day. 
b 23 — 28, according to Siebold. Sometimes 29, according to Czernay. 
c Sometimes 7, according to KrOYER. Sometimes (in our largest specimen) 10, though here the last ray is not divided, in accordance 
with the general rule, to the base, and is besides slender, being thus best reckoned as a part separated from the ray in front of it. 
. 1 
“ — . according to EkstrOm. 
15' & 
e Sometimes 7, according to KrOyer. 
