Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . is common every-where ; in its native condition the species is plain dark olivaceous,but domesticated varieties and monstrosities are innumerable. TheGobionines number eight species of five genera; Gobio, the Gudgeongenus, though not represented immediately, is represented medi-ately by several genera (especially by one, Leucogobio, with fourspecies, and another, ^&&o/w^^ with one) differing from each other aswell as from Gobio by slight differences of the mouth and lips. TheLeuciscines are no less than sixteen; Leuciscus, the chub genus,has six congener
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . is common every-where ; in its native condition the species is plain dark olivaceous,but domesticated varieties and monstrosities are innumerable. TheGobionines number eight species of five genera; Gobio, the Gudgeongenus, though not represented immediately, is represented medi-ately by several genera (especially by one, Leucogobio, with fourspecies, and another, ^&&o/w^^ with one) differing from each other aswell as from Gobio by slight differences of the mouth and lips. TheLeuciscines are no less than sixteen; Leuciscus, the chub genus,has six congeneric relations, and Phoxinus, the minnow, one. Acharacteristic species is that here figured, Leuciscus phalacrocorax,whose rather strange name was given because some specimens ob-tained by Jordan and Fowler were caught by trained cormorantsof the genus Phalacrocorax in the Tana river. To the Rhodeinesubfamily have been referred seven species of four genera, but itis not known whether any exercises the peculiar mode of oviposition. Fig. 87.—Leucogobio mayedce. After Jordan and Fowler. within the valves of a Unionid as does the bitterling of Germany. Itis noteworthy, however, that one of the species, Pseudoperilampustypus, has been given a Japanese name (Nigabuna) which conveysthe same allusion (bitter carp) as the German name; it rarelyattains a length of three inches. Several of the Rhodeines areremarkable for traits of color. Few of the Cyprinids have distinctblack markings, the predominant colors being brownish or olivaceouson the back and sides and whitish or silvery below, and consequentlythe European Leuciscines are collectively designated as whitefishand this has been rendered into the Greek derivative the exceptions to the rule are Rhodeines, one of which(Acheilognathus cyanostigma) is here illustrated; a black lateralband concurrent with the dorsal outlines is very conspicuous. Itis one of the many fishes of the great Japanese lake Biwa. The gill] NOTEWO
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