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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
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ng, curious and dainty so-calledTransparent Fringetail Telescope Goldfish. These fishes are derived fromthe same parent stock as the Mottled Telescope and are bred from im-ported fishes. Oftentimes some of the young of Mottled Telescopes ex-hibit this character and are greatly admired, not only for their beautifulcolors but also for their spheroidal eyes, which are usually deep blue in color. The Chinese Fringetail Telescopes have most wonderful developmentof fins and tail, so dainty and lacelike as to seem too delicate to serve theiruses. These are as long and pendant as those of the most perfect Fringe-tails. The illustration is of an 18 months old fish owned by the author. 56 GOLDFISH BREEDS THE CHINESE MOOR TELESCOPE GOLDFISH Carussius auratus,var. Chinensit maurut Fig 24 This magnificent variety, known as the Moor or Black Telescope, isa very rare and deservedly highly prized fish. Its general conformationis that of the Chinese Telescope, but the fins and tail are usually longer.
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FIG. 24—Chinese Moor Telescope GoldfishCarassius auratus, var. chinensis maurns Two-thirds life size The distinctive coloring is permanent in purely bred fishes and consistsof an even covering over the entire fish, including the eyes, fins and tail,of a wonderfully rich bluish-black hue, so delicate and even in tone as toappear as though the entire fish were covered with the richest blue-blackvelvet, the magnificent sheen of which is such that one could expect tofeel the very texture of the fabric. With many of the American bredMoors, however, the black color is not permanent. The Moor is always a scaled fish, though these, due to the intenselydark color, are usually invisible. Sometimes in fishes bred from Japanesestock, the colors are black on the back and sides, with a delicate bluish orreddish-bronze tone on the abdomen, these scales have the appearance ofbeing outlined with golden-bronze. The fishes so marked never retaintheir black color, but at some time in their existence, a

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