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Biological Notes

Nature (London), 1879-02, Vol.19 (487), p.389-390 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Biological Notes
É parte de: Nature (London), 1879-02, Vol.19 (487), p.389-390
Descrição: NEW FISHES FROM CENTRAL ASIA.-The last number of the Bulletin of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg contains an interesting communication from Prof. Kessler on the fishes obtained by Prjvalsky during his recent expedition to Lob-Nor, a district previously unvisited by any naturalist. Herr Prjvalsky's collection from Lob-Nor and the basin of the Tarim confined examples of eleven species of fishes, eight of which jelong to the family of Cyprinidæ, and three to that of Cobitidæ. As might have been expected, nearly the whole of these are new to science, and belong to genera (Diplychus, Schizothorax, &c.) characteristic of the high lands of Central Asia. One of the Cyprinoides is so peculiar as to necessitate the institution for it of a new genus, which Herr Kessler proposes to call Aspicrhynchus. Aspio-rhynchus prjvalskii, as Prof. Kessler names this fish, in lonour of its discoverer, inhabits the lower Tarim and,ob-Nor, where it attains a considerable size and furnishes an excellent article of food. Prof. Kessler suggests that two of the fishes obtained by the late Dr. Stoliczka during Forsyth's expedition to Yarkand, which were referred by Dr. Day to the genus Ptychobarbus, probably belong to his genus Aspiorhynchus.
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