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Title: Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation : a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. With 280 explanatory illustrations, printed with the text
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wolf, Herman Theodore, 1855-
Subjects: Aquariums Goldfish
Publisher: Philadelphia : Innes & sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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case with the imperfectly developed Fringetail;the upper lobes are always the longer, and the relative position of thedouble tail is not directly vertical or parallel to each other but at a decidedangle when the fish is viewed from the rear, while the perfectly developedFantail has the appearance of having two separate single tails placed sideby side. The tail of the Fantail never exceeds the body in length. The colors are identical with those of the Fringetail, but the scalesare larger and usually coarser; this variety also having no transparentlyscaled members, either of pure or crossed stock. It is a characteristicallyhandsome fish though not as showy as the Fringetail. 48 (iOLDFISH BREKDS THE JAPANESE NYMPH GOLDFISH I ai assius auratus, var.japonicus nympha. Fig*, i j and 14. With all finely bred domesticated animals there are always someindividuals that have a tendency to partially revert to the ancestral type.This frequently occurs with goldfishes, as many of the progeny of the
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FIG. 13—Scaled Japanese Nymph GoldfishCarassiiis auratus, var.japonicus nympha Two-thirds life size finest strains develop characteristics different from their parents and clearlvindicate the type from which the breed was derived. An instance of thisis the Nymph goldfish, the name of which would indicate some suchthought on the part of the breeders. It is now recognized as a distinct variety and may be bred bycrossing the Comet and theFringetail, but is more usuallyaccidentally produced fromFringetail stock; being whatis known, in the parlanceof the breeder as a sport.The finest specimens have allthe characteristics of theFringetail with a singleComet-like tail. Fine speci-mens of the Nymph are veryhandsome, having long pen-dant pectoral and ventral fins,

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