I'm looking to ID the type of fish that is mounted here. Also, is there a special name for this unusual (to me at least) mounting style? Thanks for your help.
Carp's head in a tourist place along the Danube in Bulgaria.
Well that is a wierd mount,it actually isn't a mount so much as a freeze dried or dehydrated fish head, really hard to tell exactly what it is since it is so dried out...
That is not even a skin mount, which used to be very poplular, where the skin was cured,then placed on a foam shape of the fish,and then painted...
But most taxidermists have gone to reproduction mounts,which is a mold of the real fish, then cast in resin and fiberglass, then painted, this by the way allows anglers to get a fish mount without killing the fish,as the taxidermy shop will have many molds of different size fish ,all you have to do is tell them the length and girth of the fish you want...Some still prefer a skin mount,as oppsed to a fiberglass mount, saying it is more realistic looking, but the fiberglass mount 20 years down the road will look 10 times better than even a very good skin mount...I know way too much information,and I still haven't said what kind of fish I think it might be...
What I do know is that one from Europe is NOT a carp...carp do NOT have teeth per say,they have a very rubbery mouth,and lips... Walleye do have visible teeth,and Northern pike,and pickerel,even bigger nastier teeth, Muskie also have some serious teeth... Bass both smallmouth,and large mouth have teeth,but it is like a snook, they are very small fine teeth,and look and feel much like a very fine grade of sandpaper...
So after my long winded dissertation what is it? I really have no idea ,and beleive it or not, I do know FISH! So to sum it up, if I had to guess and it would only be a guess because of it's condition I would say it's a dehydrated FISH HEAD! 
