''Cirrhinus'' is a genus of fish in the family

Cyprinidae 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 t ...

, the carps and minnows. Members of this genus are native to freshwater in

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and southern

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Species

These are the species in the genus. * '' Cirrhinus cirrhosus'' ( Bloch, 1795) (mrigal carp) * '' Cirrhinus jullieni'' Sauvage, 1878 * '' Cirrhinus macrops'' Steindachner, 1870 (hora white carp) * '' Cirrhinus microlepis'' Sauvage, 1878 (smallscale mud carp) * '' Cirrhinus molitorella'' (

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, 1844) (mud carp) * ''

Cirrhinus mrigala ''Cirrhinus mrigala'' is a species of ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called be ...

'' (

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, 1822) * '' Cirrhinus reba'' (Hamilton, 1822) (reba carp)

References

Cyprinidae genera Cyprinid fish of Asia {{Labeoninae-stub