HATE 83 
PLATE XXIX. 
CYPRINUS BARBUS. 
BARBEL. 
ABDOMIN ALES. 
GENERIC CHARACTER 
^fouth without teeth : gill-membrane with three rays : body smooth, 
and whitish in general : ventral fins usually with nine rays. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
- Anal fin with seven rays : beards four : second ray of the first 
dorsal fin serrated on both sides. 
£ypr INUS Barbus : pinna ani radiis 7, cirris 4, pinna; dorsi radio 
secundo utrinque serrato. Mus. Ad. Fr. 2. 
p. 107. 
'-yprinus maxilla superiore longiore, cirris 4, pinna ani ossiculo- 
rum 7. 
Cyprinus maxilla superiore, prominente, cirris quatuor ad os. Bloch . 
Barbel. Penn. Brit. Zool. 3. p. 357. 
A common inhabitant of most fresh waters in Europe, and easily 
stinguishej from the other species of Carp or Cyprinus genus to 
^ch it belongs, by the upper jaw being advanced far beyond the 
