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Title: A history of the fishes of the British Islands
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Couch, Jonathan, 1789-1870 Lydon, A. F
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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jaws without teeth; snout somewhat rounded. Outlineof the body rising gently to the origin of the dorsal fin,which is above the root of the ventrals, and from thencesloping gradually to the tail. Scales large, easily lost; lateralline descending at first, and then proceeding nearer theventral border than to the back. Eye moderate. The dorsalfin elevated, its first ray nearer the snout than to the tail; tailforked. Anal fin behind the termination of the dorsal, andthe number of the fin rays equal in both, eleven or twelve innumber; pectoral rounded, with sixteen rays; ventrals withnine; nineteen in the tail. Colour of the back greyish green,,sometimes with a tinge of brown; sides whitish, with a tintof blue or reddish. Dorsal fin and tail dark; anal, ventral,and pectoral fins red; but Nilsson remarks that in the youngerexamples the eye is yellow instead of red,. and the ventraland anal fins only reddish. The air-bladder and pharyngealteeth possess the general characters of the family.
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49 KUDD. KEDEYE. FINSCAEE. Bntlluslatior,vclBiiheUioflaviatilis,Bucld, Willoughby; p. 252, tab. Q. 3. Cyprinus erythropldlialmus, Linn^us. Leuciscus erythropJdhalmus, CuviER. Blocu, pi. 1. Cyprinus erythrophthalmiis, Donovan, jdI. 40. Fleming; Br. Animals, ii. 188. Jenyns; Manual, p. 412. Yarrell; Br. F , vol. i, p. 412. It appears that when Ray was engag-ed in editing the workof Willoughby, above referred to, he felt some doubt as regardsa fish which was called Orfus in Germany—as to whether itmight not be the same that in England was called Rudd orRedeye; and when afterwards he iiublished his synopsis thisdoubt had become settled into a feeling of certainty. But thisdoubt or mistake of the illustrious Ray was carried further byDr. Fleming; who not only represents the Rudd of Willoughbyand Ray as the Orfus of Germany, but also that this Rudd isdifferent from the species called the Redeye. The Orfus istruly a distinct species, but it has not been recognised inBritain. For the most p

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