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PISCES ABDOMINALES. CYPRINUS. 
CYPRINUS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caput ore edentulo; os nasale bisulcum. 
Membrana branchiostega radiis tribus. 
Corpus lave albens. Pinna ventrales sape 
novern radiata. 
The head: mouth without teeth; the 
nasal bone forked. Three rays in the 
branchial membrane. The body smooth 
and whitish. Nine rays often in the 
ventral fins. 
No. CCIV. 
Cyprinus cirris quatuor; pinna dorsalis radiis undecem, tertio longo, crasso, rugoso, postice 
serrato; pinnis omnibusJlavescentibus. 
The Cyprinus with four cirri; eleven rays in the dorsal fin, of which the third is long, 
thick, rough, and on the hinder part serrated. All the fins have a yellowish cast. 
Called by the Natives Kunnamoo. 
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B . iii. D. II. P. 15. V. 9. A. 9. C. 20. 
The body oblong-ovate, compressed, squamous, resplendent; scales large, the base truncate, the posterior 
margin rounded, ciliate, imbricate, tenacious. 
The head small, declivous, compressed, obtuse, without scales, the front a little convex, smooth. Mouth 
small, round, somewhat oblique; the lips thickish. Jaws extractile, the under a little shorter, both without 
teeth. Tongue short, roundish, smooth, tied. The palate smooth. The eyes high, round, plane; nostrils oval, 
contiguous, near the edge of the rostrum. The branchial opercula three-leaved, the middle leaf round, the first 
and third angular. The membrane has three stout ossicles ; the aperture lateral, large, arched. The cirri very 
short; one on the upper lip, and one at the corner of the mouth, on each side. 
The trunk. The back and abdomen arched, the former somewhat carinate, the latter convex; the sides and 
tail compressed. Branchiae pectinate, and tuberculate. Lateral line from the edge of the opercula bends gently 
downwards to the end of the anal fin, then rising, it runs straight and middle to the tail. The anus very 
remote. 
The jins. The dorsal middle, consists of three spinous, and eight single rays, the first of the spinous very 
short but sharp, the second lies close on the third, which is the longest, strong, a little curve, serrated behind, 
and rough on the side; the pectoral fin low, acuminate in the middle; the ventral opposite to the dorsal, also 
acuminate; the anal close to the anus, very near the tail; the caudal fin bifid. 
The colour. The head, back, and sides a shining white; the throat and belly a yellowish white. The fins 
whitish with a faint yellow tint. 
Length six inches.—Found in the river, and also in a tank at Casemcottah. 
