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The Cyprinidae are members of the carp family (the Cyprinidae) of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to order Cypriniformes.
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 ...
Cypriniformes / s ɪ ˈ p r ɪ n ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of ray-finned fish, which includes many families and genera of cyprinid (carps and their kin) fish, such as barbs, gobies, loaches, botias, and minnows (among others).
Alburnoides rossicus L. S. Berg, 1924 [3] Alburnoides samiii Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust & Doadrio, 2015 [1] (Samii's riffle minnow) Alburnoides strymonicus Chichkoff, 1940; Alburnoides tabarestanensis Mousavi-Sabet, Anvarifar & Azizi, 2015 [10] (Tabarestan riffle minnow) Alburnoides taeniatus (Kessler, 1874) (Striped bystranka) Alburnoides ...
The dentary of the ghost knifefish species Sternarchogiton nattereri (family Apteronotidae) has upper and lower pharyngeal tooth plates bearing 9–11 and 7–9 teeth, respectively. The mouth cone ("everted pharynx") of a possible new species of Meiopriapulus , a marine worm in the Priapulida , bears pharyngeal teeth.
Xenocyprididae was previously considered to be a part of the family Cyprinidae, along with the Danionidae, Leuciscidae, Tincidae other related fish taxa. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes place all of these groups, formerly considered to be subfamilies of the Cyprinidae sensu lato in the large, widespread and diverse suborder Cyprinoidei, consisting, mainly, of freshwater ray-finned fish. [3]
The crucian carp is a medium-sized cyprinid, typically 15 centimetres (5.9 in) in body length, and rarely exceeds in weight over 2 kilograms (4.4 lb), [5] but a maximum total length of 64 centimetres (25 in) has been reported for a male, [6] and the heaviest published weighed 3 kilograms (6.6 lb).
These species are slim cyprinids with a flat belly and a sucking mouth; their shape indicates that they are at least in tendency rheophilic.They are distinguished from other cyprinids by a combination of features: As in their closest relatives, their lower lip is expanded at its posterior rim to form a round or oval sucking pad, the vomero-palatine organ is much reduced or completely lost, the ...