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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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black eyes; and others pearly-white bodies, and finsmottled with red, and red and black eyes, though none of these coloringsare necessarily permanent. The colors of these fishes are so fantastic thatFrench, German and American authorities class them as much by thesecolor peculiarities as by changes in body structure. The following are the most generally known of the Chinese telescopic-eyed goldfishes bred in the United States: THE CHINESE MOTTLED OR VARIEGATEDTELESCOPE GOLDFISH Carassius auratus, var. chinensis veriegatus. Figs. 19, 20, 21 and 22 This variety of the Telescope is commonly known as the Calico, asbest describing its fantastic markings. The body is short and thick ; thespine has a decided backward curve; the snout is formed to give the short 53 GOLDFISH BREEDS head a pugnacious appearance ; the mouth is placed almost vertically atthe front of the head ; the lips are distinct; the nostrils small but erect,and the eyes very large and usually disclike or tubular in form. The
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FIG. 19—Adult Chinese Mottled Telescope GoldfishCarassius auratus,var. chinensis veriegatus. Lateral view. Two-thirds life size dorsal fin is high and short; all the lower fins are paired, long and verybroad ; the tail is double and the two separate tails are carried at an angle

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