The TENCH

Is, in Icthyology, the English name of the Tinca of the modern authors; but, according to the Artedian and Linnæan system, a species of the Cyprinus. It is distinguished by Artedi by the name of the blackish, mucous, or slimy Cyprinus, with the end of the tail even.


A Salmon Trout from Berwick on Tweed E. Albin 1740.

Trocta, the Trout. Albin Fecit, 1741.