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Cypriniformes is an "order-within-an-order", placed under the superorder Ostariophysi—which is also made up of cyprinid, ostariophysin fishes. The order contains 11–12 families (with some authorities having listed as many as 23), [ 2 ] over 400 genera, and more than 4,250 named species ; new species are regularly described, and new genera ...
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barbs and barbels, among others. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family, and the largest vertebrate animal family overall, with about 3,000 species ; only 1,270 of these remain ...
Common carp by Alexander Francis Lydon. The type subspecies is Cyprinus carpio carpio, native to much of Europe (notably the Danube and Volga rivers). [2] [4]The subspecies Cyprinus carpio haematopterus (Amur carp), native to eastern Asia, was recognized in the past, [4] but recent authorities treat it as a separate species under the name Cyprinus rubrofuscus.
The term carp (pl.: carp) is a generic common name for numerous species of freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, ... The cypriniformes (family Cyprinidae) ...
The Cyprinidae are members of the carp family (the Cyprinidae) of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to order Cypriniformes. This category consists of articles on genera and species in family Cyprinidae.
Cyprinus / s ɪ ˈ p r aɪ n ə s / is the genus of typical carps in family Cyprinidae.Most species in the genus are of East Asia origin with only the common carp (C. carpio) in Western Asia and Europe; this invasive species has also been introduced to many other regions around the world. [1]
This category contains articles about the Cyprinids taxa in the Cypriniformes order - the minnows, suckers and loaches. There are four families within this order: The first and most well known is Cyprinidae, this contains the carp, barbs, danios, goldfish, minnows, rasboras, etc. Other families within cypriniformes are:
The grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) is a species of large herbivorous freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae, native to the Pacific Far East, with a native range stretching from northern Vietnam to the Amur River on the Sino-Russian border. [2] This Asian carp is the only species of the genus Ctenopharyngodon.