9622 ‎(2)‎

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9622
• Author: Schofield, P. J. and e. al.
• Title: Foreign Nonindigenous Carps and Minnows ‎(Cyprinidae)‎ in the United States - A Guide to their Identification, Distribution, and Biology.
• USFW Year: 2005.
• USFW - Doc Type: 2005-5041,
• Copyright Material: NO

Appendix B. Meristics of foreign non indigenous cyprinids and selected hybrids.

Appendix B 97

This appendix contains meristic characters for the eleven foreign non indigenous cyprinids treated in this guide, as
well as some of their hybrids. Each table presents meristic information from a number of reports, generally ranging over a
wide geographic area (often including data from populations in both native and non-native areas). Because the soft rays of
the dorsal and anal fins are often difficult to discern, many authors typically report only a single number, which includes
one unbranched ray plus all branched rays. We have reproduced these counts as given by the original authors. In contrast,
some authors give counts for both unbranched and branched rays in the fins. The format of these counts has been standard-
ized by using Roman numerals to indicate unbranched rays followed by Arabic numerals (in parentheses) to represent the
number of soft branched rays. Gill-raker counts are based on the first (outer) gill arch. All gill rakers are counted, including
small rudimentary ones. Some authors give either upper and lower limb counts, or inner and outer (anterior and posterior)
counts, and we have reported those data where available. For more information on reporting meristics, see "Methods."

Goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Nikolyukin Kiselov Radimowski Radimowski Scott
Taylor and and Vue and
Citation 1946, Berg (1962), in Mahon (1973), in (1973), in Biiniirescu Cross- others Nakamura Wheeler
in Berg (1964) Szczerbow- (1977) Szczerbow- Szczerbow- (1964) (2000) (1969) (1969)
(1964) ski (2001) ski (2001) ski (2001) man
(1973)
--------- ----~------ --
Source locale Russia Russia Laurentian Romania Canada China Japan NW
Ukraine Great Lakes China Ukraine Europe
Lateral-line 28-31 28-33 26-31 28-31 28-30 26-31 28-32 27-30 27-30 30-33 28-33
scales
Dorsal rays iii-iv iii-iv iii-iv ii-iii iii iii iii-iv (15-18) iii iii iii-iv
(15-18) (14-19) (13-19) (15-18) (16-18) (15-19) (14-18) (15-19) (16-18) (15-19)
Anal rays iii (5-6) ii-iii ii-iii iii iii iii (5-6) iii iii ii-iii
(5-6) (5-6) (5-6) (5-6) (5) (5) (5) (5-6)
Pectoral rays i (13-15) i (14-18) (15-17) i (16-17)
Pelvic rays i (7-9) i (7-8) (8-9) i (8)
Vertebrae 29-31 29-31 29-31 26-31 25-31 29-31 28-29 28-30
39-47
Gill rakers 40-48 39-50 38-47 outside, 37-46 38-45 40-52 37-43
47-53 inside

Crucian Carp (Carassius carassius)

Citation

Drjagin (1949, in
Szczerbowski
and Szczerbowski
(2001)

Szczerbowski
(1995),
in Szczerbowski
and Szczerbowski
(2001)

Biiniirescu
(1964)

Vue and
others
(2000)

Nikolyukin
(1946), in Berg
(1964)

Nikolyukin
(1946), in
Berg (1964)

Wheeler (1969)

Source locale Russia Poland Russia Romania China
Lateral-line scales 28-37 32-35 32-35 30-35 32-34
Dorsal rays iii-iv (14-21) iii-iv (16-19) iii-iv (16-19) iii-iv (14-17) iii (16-18)
I Anal rays ii-iii (6-8) ii-iii (5-8) iii (5-6) iii (5-7) iii (6-7)
Pectoral rays i (14-16)
Pelvic rays i (8)
Vertebrae 31-33 30-33 31-34
Gill rakers 22-33 22-28 28-33 23-33

Russia

NW Europe
32-35
iii-iv (14-21)
iii (6-8)

29-36
iii-iv (16-20)
iii (6-7)

32-33
26-30

26-31