Watonai

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The Watonai (sometimes also called Waryu ) is a cross between the goldfish cultivated forms Ryukin and Wakin (Japanese goldfish) originating from Japan .

It was named after a well-known hero from a Japanese play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon . Watonai was the son of a Japanese woman and a Chinese diplomat. The emergence of the cultivated form is dated to the year 1880 in Tokyo. The first public presentation took place three years later (1883). The basic shape of the Watonai is characterized by a long and narrow body with long fins. The Watonai can be found in the following colors: red, red-white speckled and completely white. Due to a lack of stringency in the breeding standard, there are often specimens of this variety with a wide variety of tail fin shapes. The spectrum ranges from multi-part tails to single tails. The Watonai can be seen as a reconstruction of the mutation stage between the Wakin and the ryukin developed from it.

See also

literature

  • Rudolf Piechocki: The goldfish . 6th edition. Neue Brehm Bücherei-Westarp, 1990, ISBN 3-7403-0244-5 .
  • Bernhard Teichfischer: Goldfish all over the world . 1st edition. Tetra Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89745-095-X .
  • Joseph Smartt: Varieties and Genetics - Handbook for Breeders . 1st edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2001, ISBN 0-85238-265-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bernhard Teichfischer: Goldfish all over the world . 1st edition. Tetra Verlag, Berlin, 1994, ISBN 3-897450-95-X , p. 60
  2. ↑ Rudolf Piechocki: The goldfish . 6 edition. Neue Brehm Bücherei-Westarp, 1990, ISBN 3-7403-0244-5 , p. 32
  3. ↑ a b Joseph Smartt: Goldfish Varieties and Genetics: Handbook for Breeders . 1st edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2001, ISBN 0852382650 , pp. 19-20