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Berinkey, L.: On a new fish species of our fauna 1-26. o.
Nevertheless, they will remain great enough to regard the form from thç .Danube as a distinct subspecies". As I mentioned above, I think it probable that SLASTENENKO published the data of randomly collected specimens, therefore, for the sake of obtaining a uniform basis of comparison, I calculated the summarized means of BANARESCU * s Temes data /these also are given in the tables/. Of BANARESCU *s data, I disregarded the Temes specimens of 2-4 cm, as the value of data taken from animals of this size is, in my opinion, dubious. Similarly, I made no use of the values of BANARESCU* s 8 specimens from Arges and 2 from Botna.since one cannot draw stable deductions from data based on such small number of specimens. Prom then on, all computations were made with summarized means . To decide which of the differences can be regarded as significants, I applied the STUDENT-PISHER method. The results of the calculations are presented in table IX. First I compared the Temes specimens as measured by me with the Hungarian ones. Their values, as is to be seen also from the Table, stand very close to each other with regard to all measurements»attaining the limit of significancy only with respect to the postorbital distance. On the basis of these values as well as the morphological and osteological correspondances, I considered the two populations identical, and, for the sake of being enabled to work with a larger material, I drew both groups together, comparing them with BANARESCU's Temes data. I was much surprised to find significant differences concerning 5 characteristics /diameter of eye, length of head, lowest height of body, length of caudal peduncle,predoreal distance/. It is theoretically impossible that two samples /Temes/ taken from the same population of a subspecies should significantly differ from each other. Though the body measurements of fishes are read at internationally uniform points, there remained nothing for the elimination of the above contradiction but the assumption
