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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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ed Japanese fishes. The Fantail is a scaled short-bodied fish, very thick, round-backedand deep-bellied, of almost oval outline; its body being best described asof short pumpkin-seed-form, with the horizontal longer diameter of slightlygreater length than a true oval, and so formed that an imaginary line tromthe upper lip to the base of the tail would show the upper and lower halvesof the body of almost the same conformation. It has a short, broad head,distinctly hognosed, a large mouth with full lips, erect nostrils and eyeslike the ordinary goldfish, but larger. The long and erect dorsal fin sitsfar back on the spine, all the other fins being paired; the pectorals and 47 GOLDFISH BREEDS ventrals are long and pendant, the double anal fins are long and extendalmost straight backward, while the broad double tail, which is the princi-pal characteristic of the fish, is divided quite to the base and the two dis-tinct tails stand directly vertical on the same plane and are carried straight
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FIG. 12—Japanese Fantail GoldfishCarassiits aura/us. Tar. japonicus erectibicaudalis. Two-thirds life size. out behind the body without the least drop or droop; the upper and lowerlobes being of exactly the same length so that a perpendicular line fromthe end of the upper will exactly touch the end of the lower lobe oneach side. This is never the 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 thoug

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