. Japanese goldfish, their varieties and cultivation; a practical guide to the Japanese methods of goldfish culture for amateurs and professionals. Goldfish. II-JAPANESE GOLDFISH BREEDS The IVild Fish. JHE wild fish from which the multicolored and multiformed varieties of goldfish have heen produced is a very plain species, with nothing to suggest the wonderful possibilities of de^-elopment which it has undergone. The moderately elongated and compressed body is covered with large, coarse scales; the head is unsealed and smooth; the fins are relatively small, and the color is uniform olivaceous
. Japanese goldfish, their varieties and cultivation; a practical guide to the Japanese methods of goldfish culture for amateurs and professionals. Goldfish. II-JAPANESE GOLDFISH BREEDS The IVild Fish. JHE wild fish from which the multicolored and multiformed varieties of goldfish have heen produced is a very plain species, with nothing to suggest the wonderful possibilities of de^-elopment which it has undergone. The moderately elongated and compressed body is covered with large, coarse scales; the head is unsealed and smooth; the fins are relatively small, and the color is uniform olivaceous. The normal length is eight to twelve inches. The goldfish was originally placed in the same genus as the domesticated Asiatic carp, and was named Cypriiiiis miratus by Linnaeus. It dififers, however, from the common carp in having no barbels, and in having the pharyngeal teeth in a single row on each side; it has therefore been put in the same genus as the crucian carp or karass, of European waters, and its proper scientific name is Carassiiis auratiis, which literally means the golden or gilded karass. The goldfish is some- times not inappropriately called the gold carp, but this name is not distinctive because a golden variety of the common carp is now extensively cultivated. 15. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smith, Hugh McCormick, 1865-1941. Washington, W. F. Roberts Company
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