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Cyprinidae is a
family
Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...
of
freshwater fish
Freshwater fish are those that spend some or all of their lives in fresh water, such as rivers and lakes, with a salinity of less than 1.05%. These environments differ from marine conditions in many ways, especially the difference in levels of s ...
commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the
carp
Carp are various species of oily freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large group of fish native to Europe and Asia. While carp is consumed in many parts of the world, they are generally considered an invasive species in parts of ...
s, the true
minnow
Minnow is the common name for a number of species of small freshwater fish, belonging to several genera of the families Cyprinidae and Leuciscidae. They are also known in Ireland as pinkeens.
Smaller fish in the subfamily Leusciscidae are co ...
s, and relatives like the
barb
Barb or the BARBs or ''variation'' may refer to:
People
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* Barb, a term used by fans of Nicki Minaj to refer to themselves
* The Barbs, a band
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* Barb, ...
s and
barbel Barbel may refer to:
*Barbel (anatomy), a whisker-like organ near the mouth found in some fish (notably catfish, loaches and cyprinids) and turtles
*Barbel (fish), a common name for certain species of fish
**''Barbus barbus'', a species of cyprinid ...
s. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest
vertebrate animal family in general with about 3,000
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
, of which only 1,270 remain extant, divided into about 370
genera
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...
.
Cyprinids range from about 12 mm in size to the
giant barb
The giant barb, Siamese giant carp, or simply Siamese carp (''Catlocarpio siamensis'') ( km, ត្រីគល់រាំង, ; th, กระโห้, , , or , , ; Vietnamese: ''cá Hô''), is the largest species of cyprinid in the world. Thes ...
(''Catlocarpio siamensis'').
By genus and species count, the family makes up more than two-thirds of the
ostariophysi
Ostariophysi is the second-largest superorder of fish. Members of this superorder are called ostariophysians. This diverse group contains 10,758 species, about 28% of known fish species in the world and 68% of freshwater species, and are present ...
an order
Cypriniformes
Cypriniformes is an order of ray-finned fish, including the carps, minnows, loaches, and relatives. Cypriniformes is an Order within the Superorder Ostariophysi consisting of "Carp-like" Ostariophysins. This order contains 11-12 families, ...
.
[ The family name is derived from the Greek word ( 'carp').
]
Biology and ecology
Cyprinids are stomachless fish with toothless jaws. Even so, food can be effectively chewed by the gill raker
Gill rakers in fish are bony or cartilaginous processes that project from the branchial arch (gill arch) and are involved with suspension feeding tiny prey. They are not to be confused with the gill filaments that compose the fleshy part of the ...
s of the specialized last gill bow. These pharyngeal teeth
Pharyngeal teeth are teeth in the pharyngeal arch of the throat of cyprinids, suckers, and a number of other fish species otherwise lacking teeth.[bony process of the ](_blank)skull
The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of four types of bone i.e., cranial bones, facial bones, ear ossicles and hyoid bone. However two parts are more prominent: the cranium and the mandible. In humans, the ...
. The pharyngeal teeth are unique to each species and are used by scientists to identify species. Strong pharyngeal teeth allow fish such as the common carp
The Eurasian carp or European carp (''Cyprinus carpio''), widely known as the common carp, is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.Fishbase''Cyprinus carpio'' Linnaeus, 1758/ref>Arkive The ...
and ide to eat hard baits such as snails
A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastrop ...
and bivalves
Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ...
.
Hearing is a well-developed sense in the cyprinids since they have the Weberian organ, three specialized vertebral processes that transfer motion of the gas bladder
The swim bladder, gas bladder, fish maw, or air bladder is an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of many bony fish (but not cartilaginous fish) to control their buoyancy, and thus to stay at their current water depth w ...
to the inner ear. The vertebral processes of the Weberian organ also permit a cyprinid to detect changes in motion of the gas bladder due to atmospheric conditions or depth changes. The cyprinids are considered physostome
Physostomes are fishes that have a pneumatic duct connecting the gas bladder to the alimentary canal. This allows the gas bladder to be filled or emptied via the mouth. This not only allows the fish to fill their bladder by gulping air, but also ...
s because the pneumatic duct
The swim bladder, gas bladder, fish maw, or air bladder is an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of many bony fish (but not cartilaginous fish) to control their buoyancy, and thus to stay at their current water depth wit ...
is retained in adult stages and the fish are able to gulp air to fill the gas bladder, or they can dispose of excess gas to the gut.
Cyprinids are native to North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
, Africa
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, and Eurasia
Eurasia (, ) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. Primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it spans from the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Japanese archipelago a ...
. The largest known cyprinid is the giant barb
The giant barb, Siamese giant carp, or simply Siamese carp (''Catlocarpio siamensis'') ( km, ត្រីគល់រាំង, ; th, กระโห้, , , or , , ; Vietnamese: ''cá Hô''), is the largest species of cyprinid in the world. Thes ...
(''Catlocarpio siamensis''), which may grow up to in length and in weight. Other very large species that can surpass are the golden mahseer
''Tor putitora'', the Putitor mahseer, Himalayan mahseer, or golden mahseer, is an endangered species of cyprinid fish that is found in rapid streams, riverine pools, and lakes in the Himalayan region. Its native range is within the basins of th ...
(''Tor putitora'') and mangar (''Luciobarbus esocinus''). The largest North American species is the Colorado pikeminnow
The Colorado pikeminnow (''Ptychocheilus lucius'', formerly squawfish) is the largest cyprinid fish of North America and one of the largest in the world, with reports of individuals up to 6 ft (1.8 m) long and weighing over 100 p ...
(''Ptychocheilus lucius''), which can reach up to in length. Conversely, many species are smaller than . The smallest known fish is ''Paedocypris progenetica
''Paedocypris progenetica'' is a species of tiny cyprinid fish endemic to the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Bintan where it is found in peat swamps and blackwater streams. It was discovered by Singaporean ichthyologist Heok Hui
Tan. He ha ...
'', reaching at the longest.
All fish in this family are egg-layers and most do not guard their eggs; however, a few species build nests and/or guard the eggs. The bitterlings of subfamily Acheilognathinae
The bitterling-like cyprinids form the cyprinid subfamily Acheilognathinae. This subfamily contains four genera, although the Khanka spiny bitterling is often placed in ''Acheilognathus'', and at least 71 described species to date. Over half of th ...
are notable for depositing their eggs in bivalve molluscs
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil sp ...
, where the young develop until able to fend for themselves.
Cyprinids contain the first and only known example of androgenesis in a vertebrate, in the Squalius alburnoides
''Squalius alburnoides'' is a species of fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Portugal and Spain. Its natural habitats are rivers and intermittent rivers. It may be threatened by habitat loss.
This species is a highly peculiar fish in r ...
allopolyploid
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complex.
Most cyprinids feed mainly on invertebrates
Invertebrates are a paraphyletic group of animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a ''backbone'' or ''spine''), derived from the notochord. This is a grouping including all animals apart from the chordate ...
and vegetation
Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide. It is a general term, without specific reference to particular taxa, life forms, structure, spatial extent, or any other specific botanical or geographic character ...
, probably due to the lack of teeth and stomach; however, some species, like the asp, are predators that specialize in fish. Many species, such as the ide and the common rudd
The common rudd (''Scardinius erythrophthalmus'') is a bentho-pelagic freshwater fish, widely spread in Europe and middle Asia, around the basins of the North, Baltic, Black, Caspian and Aral seas.
Identification
Morphologically, this species ...
, prey on small fish when individuals become large enough. Even small species, such as the moderlieschen, are opportunistic predators that will eat larvae of the common frog
The common frog or grass frog (''Rana temporaria''), also known as the European common frog, European common brown frog, European grass frog, European Holarctic true frog, European pond frog or European brown frog, is a semi-aquatic amphibian o ...
in artificial circumstances.
Some cyprinids, such as the grass carp
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 ...
, are specialized herbivores; others, such as the common nase
The common nase (''Chondrostoma nasus'') is a European potamodromous
Fish migration is mass relocation by fish from one area or body of water to another. Many types of fish migrate on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to ann ...
, eat algae and biofilm
A biofilm comprises any syntrophic consortium of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface. These adherent cells become embedded within a slimy extracellular matrix that is composed of extracellular ...
s, while others, such as the black carp
The black carp (''Mylopharyngodon piceus'') or Chinese black roach is a species of cyprinid freshwater fish and the sole extant species of the genus ''Mylopharyngodon''. It is native to lakes and rivers in East Asia, ranging from the Amur Basin ...
, specialize in snails, and some, such as the silver carp
The silver carp (''Hypophthalmichthys molitrix'') is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish, a variety of Asian carp native to China and eastern Siberia, from the Amur River drainage in the north to the Xi Jiang River drainage in the south. Alt ...
, are specialized filter feeders
Filter feeders are a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure. Some animals that use this method of feedin ...
. For this reason, cyprinids are often introduced as a management tool to control various factors in the aquatic environment, such as aquatic vegetation and diseases transmitted by snails.
Unlike most fish species, cyprinids generally increase in abundance in eutrophic
Eutrophication is the process by which an entire body of water, or parts of it, becomes progressively enriched with minerals and nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus. It has also been defined as "nutrient-induced increase in phytoplank ...
lakes. Here, they contribute towards positive feedback as they are efficient at eating the zooplankton
Zooplankton are the animal component of the planktonic community ("zoo" comes from the Greek word for ''animal''). Plankton are aquatic organisms that are unable to swim effectively against currents, and consequently drift or are carried along by ...
that would otherwise graze on the algae, reducing its abundance.
Relationship with humans
Food
Cyprinids are highly important food fish; they are fished and farmed
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...
across Eurasia
Eurasia (, ) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. Primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it spans from the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Japanese archipelago a ...
. In land-locked
A landlocked country is a country that does not have territory connected to an ocean or whose coastlines lie on endorheic basins. There are currently 44 landlocked countries and 4 landlocked de facto states. Kazakhstan is the world's largest ...
countries in particular, cyprinids are often the major species of fish eaten because they make the largest part of biomass
Biomass is plant-based material used as a fuel for heat or electricity production. It can be in the form of wood, wood residues, energy crops, agricultural residues, and waste from industry, farms, and households. Some people use the terms bi ...
in most water types except for fast-flowing rivers. In Eastern Europe, they are often prepared with traditional methods such as drying and salting. The prevalence of inexpensive frozen fish products made this less important now than it was in earlier times. Nonetheless, in certain places, they remain popular for food, as well as recreational fishing
Recreational fishing, also called sport fishing or game fishing, is fishing for leisure, exercise or competition. It can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is professional fishing for profit; or subsistence fishing, which is fishing ...
, for ornamental use, and have been deliberately stocked in ponds and lakes for centuries for this reason.
Sport
Cyprinids are popular for angling especially for match fishing
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(due to their dominance in biomass and numbers) and fishing for common carp because of its size and strength.
As pest control
Several cyprinids have been introduced to waters outside their natural ranges to provide food, sport, or biological control for some pest species. The common carp (''Cyprinus carpio'') and the grass carp (''Ctenopharyngodon idella'') are the most important of these, for example in Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
.
As a pest species
Carp in particular can stir up sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles. For example, sand an ...
, reducing the clarity of the water and making plant growth difficult.
In America and Australia, such as the Asian carp in the Mississippi Basin
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it fl ...
, they have become invasive species
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that compete with native fishes or disrupt the environment.
''Cyprinus carpio'' is a major pest species in Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
impacting freshwater environments, amenity, and the agricultural economy, devastating biodiversity
Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic (''genetic variability''), species (''species diversity''), and ecosystem (''ecosystem diversity'') l ...
by decimating native fish populations where they first became established as a major pest in the wild in the 1960s. In the major river system of eastern Australia, the Murray-Darling Basin, they constitute 80-90 per cent of fish biomass.
In 2016 the federal government announced A$15.2 million to fund the National Carp Control Plan to investigate using Cyprinid herpesvirus 3
''Cyprinid herpesvirus 3'' (also CyHV-3, koi herpes virus or KHV) is a species of virus causing a viral disease that is very contagious to the common carp ''Cyprinus carpio''.
Pathology
It is most commonly found in ornamental koi, which are oft ...
(carp virus) as a biological control agent while minimising impacts on industry and environment should a carp virus release go ahead. Despite initial, favourable assessment, in 2020 this plan was found to be unlikely to work due to the high fecundity of the fish.
Aquarium fish
Numerous cyprinids have become important in the aquarium and fishpond hobbies, most famously the goldfish
The goldfish (''Carassius auratus'') is a freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. It is commonly kept as a pet in indoor aquariums, and is one of the most popular aquarium fish. Goldfish released into the wild have ...
, which was bred in China from the Prussian carp
The Prussian carp, silver Prussian carp or Gibel carp (''Carassius gibelio''), is a member of the family Cyprinidae, which includes many other fish, such as the common carp, goldfish, and the smaller minnows. It is a medium-sized cyprinid, and d ...
(''Carassius (auratus) gibelio''). First imported into Europe around 1728, it was much fancied by Chinese nobility as early as 1150AD and after it arrived there in 1502, also in Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. In the latter country, from the 18th century onwards, the common carp was bred into the ornamental variety known as koi
or more specifically , are colored varieties of the Amur carp ('' Cyprinus rubrofuscus'') that are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor koi ponds or water gardens.
Koi is an informal name for the colored variants of ''C. rubrofuscus'' ke ...
– or more accurately , as simply means "common carp" in Japanese
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* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
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** Japanese diaspor ...
.
Other popular aquarium cyprinids include danionin
The danionins are a group of small, minnow-type fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae. Members of this group are mostly in the genera ''Danio'', ''Devario'', and ''Rasbora''._They_are_primarily_native_to_the_s_...''._They_are_primarily_native_t ...
s, rasborines, and true barbs. Larger species are bred by the thousands in outdoor ponds, particularly in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...
, and trade in these aquarium fishes is of considerable commercial importance. The small rasborines and danionines are perhaps only rivalled by characid
Characidae, the characids or characins is a family of freshwater subtropical and tropical fish, belonging to the order Characiformes. The name "characins" is the historical one, but scientists today tend to prefer "characids" to reflect their sta ...
s and poecilid livebearers in their popularity for community aquaria.
One particular species of these small and undemanding danionines is the zebrafish
The zebrafish (''Danio rerio'') is a freshwater fish belonging to the minnow family ( Cyprinidae) of the order Cypriniformes. Native to South Asia, it is a popular aquarium fish, frequently sold under the trade name zebra danio (and thus often ...
(''Danio rerio''). It has become the standard model species
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for studying developmental genetics of vertebrate
Vertebrates () comprise all animal taxa within the subphylum Vertebrata () ( chordates with backbones), including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Vertebrates represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, ...
s, in particular fish.
Threatened families
Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its native species. The organisms that previously inhabited the site are displaced or dead, thereby ...
and other causes have reduced the wild stocks of several cyprinids to dangerously low levels; some are already entirely extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
. In particular, the cyprinids of the subfamily Leuciscinae
Leuciscinae is a subfamily of the freshwater fish family Cyprinidae, which contains the true minnows.
Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnows. As the name suggests, most members of the O ...
from southwestern North America have been hit hard by pollution
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, the ...
and unsustainable water use in the early to mid-20th century; most globally extinct cypriniform
Cypriniformes is an order of ray-finned fish, including the carps, minnows, loaches, and relatives. Cypriniformes is an Order within the Superorder Ostariophysi consisting of "Carp-like" Ostariophysins. This order contains 11-12 families ...
species are in fact leuciscinid cyprinids from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Systematics
The massive diversity of cyprinids has so far made it difficult to resolve their phylogeny
A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological spec ...
in sufficient detail to make assignment to subfamilies
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoologi ...
more than tentative in many cases. Some distinct lineages obviously exist – for example, the Cultrinae
The Cultrinae are one of at least 13 subfamilies of cyprinid fish. It contains ten genera.
Recognized genera
* ''Anabarilius'' (21 species)
* ''Ancherythroculter'' (5 species)
* ''Chanodichthys'' (5 species)
* '' Culter'' (4 species)
* ''Cultri ...
and Leuciscinae, regardless of their exact delimitation, are rather close relatives and stand apart from Cyprininae
The Cyprininae are one of at least 11 subfamilies of cyprinid fish. It contains three genera in its strictest definition but many more are included depending on which authority is defining it, especially if the Labeobarbinae is not considered to ...
but the overall systematics
Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees (synonyms: cladograms, phylogenetic tre ...
and taxonomy
Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification.
A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...
of the Cyprinidae remain a subject of considerable debate. A large number of genera
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...
are ''incertae sedis
' () or ''problematica'' is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertainty ...
'', too equivocal in their traits and/or too little-studied to permit assignment to a particular subfamily with any certainty.
Part of the solution seems that the delicate rasborines are the core group, consisting of minor lineages that have not shifted far from their evolutionary niche, or have coevolved
In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection. The term sometimes is used for two traits in the same species affecting each other's evolution, as well ...
for millions of years. These are among the most basal lineages of living cyprinids. Other "rasborines" are apparently distributed across the diverse lineages of the family.
The validity and circumscription of proposed subfamilies like the Labeoninae
Labeoninae is a doubtfully distinct subfamily of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. They inhabit fresh water and the largest species richness is in the region around southern China, but there are also species else ...
or Squaliobarbinae
Squaliobarbinae is a small subfamily of the carp and minnow family, Cyprinidae, which consists of three monotypic genera which have their natural distributions in eastern Asia. Two species, the grass carp (''Ctenopharyngodon idella'') and the b ...
also remain doubtful, although the latter do appear to correspond to a distinct lineage. The sometimes-seen grouping of the large-headed carp
The bighead carp (''Hypophthalmichthys nobilis'') is a species of cyprinid freshwater fish native to East Asia
East Asia is the eastern region of Asia, which is defined in both Geography, geographical and culture, ethno-cultural terms. Th ...
s ( Hypophthalmichthyinae) with ''Xenocypris
''Xenocypris'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia. There are currently seven species in this genus, one, ''X. yushensis'', being known only from fossils, and one, ''X. yunnanensis'', which is critically endangered or recently exti ...
'', though, seems quite in error. More likely, the latter are part of the Cultrinae.
The entirely paraphyletic
In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...
"Barbinae" and the disputed Labeoninae might be better treated as part of the Cyprininae, forming a close-knit group whose internal relationships are still little known. The small African "barb
Barb or the BARBs or ''variation'' may refer to:
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s" do not belong in ''Barbus
''Barbus'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. The type species of ''Barbus'' is the common barbel, first described as ''Cyprinus barbus'' and now named ''Barbus barbus''. ''Barbus'' is the namesake genus of the subfamily B ...
'' ''sensu stricto
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'' – indeed, they are as distant from the typical barbel Barbel may refer to:
*Barbel (anatomy), a whisker-like organ near the mouth found in some fish (notably catfish, loaches and cyprinids) and turtles
*Barbel (fish), a common name for certain species of fish
**''Barbus barbus'', a species of cyprinid ...
s and the typical carp
''Cyprinus'' 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 species, intr ...
s (''Cyprinus'') as these are from ''Garra
''Garra'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. These fish are one example of the "log suckers", sucker-mouthed barbs and other cyprinids commonly kept in aquaria to keep down algae. The doctor fish of Anatolia and the Middle East belo ...
'' (which is placed in the Labeoninae by most who accept the latter as distinct) and thus might form another as yet unnamed subfamily. However, as noted above, how various minor lineages tie into this has not yet been resolved; therefore, such a radical move, though reasonable, is probably premature.
The tench
The tench or doctor fish (''Tinca tinca'') is a fresh- and brackish-water fish of the order Cypriniformes found throughout Eurasia from Western Europe including the British Isles east into Asia as far as the Ob and Yenisei Rivers. It is also ...
(''Tinca tinca''), a significant food species farmed in western Eurasia in large numbers, is unusual. It is most often grouped with the Leuciscinae, but even when these were rather loosely circumscribed, it always stood apart. A cladistic
Cladistics (; ) is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups (" clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry. The evidence for hypothesized relationships is typically shared derived char ...
analysis of DNA sequence
DNA sequencing is the process of determining the nucleic acid sequence – the order of nucleotides in DNA. It includes any method or technology that is used to determine the order of the four bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. Th ...
data of the S7 ribosomal protein
A ribosomal protein (r-protein or rProtein) is any of the proteins that, in conjunction with rRNA, make up the ribosomal subunits involved in the cellular process of translation. ''E. coli'', other bacteria and Archaea have a 30S small subunit an ...
intron
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1 supports the view that it is distinct enough to constitute a monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...
subfamily. It also suggests it may be closer to the small East Asia
East Asia is the eastern region of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The modern states of East Asia include China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan. China, North Korea, South Korea and ...
n ''Aphyocypris
''Aphyocypris'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes consisting of eight species, all of which are restricted to East Asia.
Species
There are currently ten recognized species in this genus:
* ''Aphyocypris amnis'' T. Y. Liao, S. O. Kullander & H. D ...
'', '' Hemigrammocypris'', and ''Yaoshanicus
''Aphyocypris'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes consisting of eight species, all of which are restricted to East Asia.
Species
There are currently ten recognized species in this genus:
* ''Aphyocypris amnis'' T. Y. Liao, S. O. Kullander & H. D ...
''. They would have diverged roughly at the same time from cyprinids of east-central Asia, perhaps as a result of the Alpide orogeny that vastly changed the topography
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Topography is a field of geoscience and planetary sci ...
of that region in the late Paleogene
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, when their divergence presumably occurred.
A DNA-based analysis of these fish places the Rasborinae as the basal lineage with the Cyprininae as a sister clade to the Leuciscinae. The subfamilies Acheilognathinae
The bitterling-like cyprinids form the cyprinid subfamily Acheilognathinae. This subfamily contains four genera, although the Khanka spiny bitterling is often placed in ''Acheilognathus'', and at least 71 described species to date. Over half of th ...
, Gobioninae
Gobioninae is a monophyletic subfamily of Eurasian cyprinid fishes. A species-rich subfamily, it is divided into five tribes: Gobionini, Pseudogobionini, Hemibarbini, Coreiini, and Sarcocheilichthyini.
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, and Leuciscinae
Leuciscinae is a subfamily of the freshwater fish family Cyprinidae, which contains the true minnows.
Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnows. As the name suggests, most members of the O ...
are monophyletic.
Subfamilies and genera
The 5th Edition of Fishes of the World
''Fishes of the World'' by the American ichthyologist Joseph S. Nelson (1937–2011) is a standard reference for fish systematics. Now in its fifth edition (2016), the work is a comprehensive overview of the diversity and classification of the ...
sets out the following subfamilies:
Subfamily
Acheilognathinae
The bitterling-like cyprinids form the cyprinid subfamily Acheilognathinae. This subfamily contains four genera, although the Khanka spiny bitterling is often placed in ''Acheilognathus'', and at least 71 described species to date. Over half of th ...
* ''Acanthorhodeus
The Khanka spiny bitterling (''Acanthorhodeus chankaensis'') is a temperate freshwater fish belonging to the Acheilognathinae subfamily of the family Cyprinidae. It originates in the inland rivers in Asia, and is found in China, Korea, and Russi ...
'' (Khanka spiny bitterling)
* ''Acheilognathus
''Acheilognathus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish native to Asia. The name is derived from the Greek ''a'', meaning "without", the Greek ''cheilos'', meaning "lip", and the Greek ''gnathos'', meaning "jaw".
Morphology
Fishes of this genus have l ...
'' (bitterlings)
* ''Rhodeus
''Rhodeus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish, consisting of 23 species called bitterlings. The scientific name is derived from the Greek word ', meaning "rose". Most species in the genus are restricted to Asia, but two species are found in Europe ('' ...
'' (bitterlings)
* ''Tanakia
''Tanakia'' is a genus of cyprinid fish, consisting of five species that occurs in Eastern Asia. The type species is the '' Tanakia limbata''.
Genus is named for Shigeho Tanaka (1878-1974), “accomplished” ichthyologist of the Imperial Unive ...
'' (bitterlings)
Subfamily
Alburninae
Alburninae is a small subfamily of the carp and minnow family of ray-finned fish, the Cyprinidae. The genera in this subfamily were previously considered to be part of the Leuciscinae
Leuciscinae is a subfamily of the freshwater fish family C ...
* ''Alburnoides
''Alburnoides'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes native to Europe and Asia. Many species are known as riffle minnows or spirlins.
Species
There are currently 30 recognized species in this genus:
* '' Alburnoides bipunctatus'' ( Bloch, 1782)
* '' Al ...
''
* ''Alburnus
''Alburnus'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. They are known commonly as bleaks. A group of species in the genus is known as shemayas. The genus occurs in the western Palearctic realm, and the center of diversi ...
'' (bleaks)
* ''Aspiolucius
''Aspiolucius esocinus'' or the pike asp is a species of cyprinid fish native to rivers, such as Amu Darya and Syr Darya, and occasionally lakes in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, where it was a common fish until 1980s. Afte ...
'' (pike asp)
* ''Metzia
''Metzia'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in eastern Asia. The genus is named in honor of the American ichthyologist Charles William Metz of Stanford University.
Species
There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Metz ...
''
Subfamily
Barbinae
Barbinae are a subfamily of fish included in the family Cyprinidae. The taxonomy for this group has not been entirely worked out as some genera historically considered within it are still considered incertae sedis with respect to being a member ...
* ''Acrossocheilus
''Acrossocheilus'' is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae, native to freshwater in China, Taiwan, Laos, and Vietnam. They are fairly small, no more than in standard length.
Species
There are currently 26 recognized species ...
''
* '' Anchicyclocheilus''
* ''Aulopyge
The Dalmatian barbelgudgeon (''Aulopyge huegelii'') is a European ray-finned fish species in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae. It is the only member of the monotypic genus ''Aulopyge''. The genus name is derived from the ancient Greek ''au ...
'' (Dalmatian barbelgudgeon)
* ''Balantiocheilos
''Balantiocheilos'' is a small genus of cyprinid fish from southeast Asia. It includes two species.
Species
*'' Balantiocheilos ambusticauda'' H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2007 (Burnt tail fish)
*'' Balantiocheilos melanopterus'' ( Bleeker, 1851) (Tr ...
''
* ''Barbus
''Barbus'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. The type species of ''Barbus'' is the common barbel, first described as ''Cyprinus barbus'' and now named ''Barbus barbus''. ''Barbus'' is the namesake genus of the subfamily B ...
'' (typical barbels and barbs)
* ''Carasobarbus
''Carasobarbus'', the himris, is a small genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae. Its species are found in rivers, streams, lakes and ponds in Western Asia and Northwest Africa. ''C. canis'' can reach in total length, but most other ...
''
* ''Clypeobarbus
''Clypeobarbus'' is a genus of small cyprinid fishes native to Africa. Most species are restricted to the Congo River Basin, but ''C. pleuropholis'' is also found in the Chad Basin, while ''C. bellcrossi'' is from the Zambezi and ''C. hypsolepis ...
''
* ''Dawkinsia
''Dawkinsia'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes from freshwater in South India and Sri Lanka. It was split off from genus '' Puntius'' in 2012.
Etymology
''Dawkinsia'' is named after the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in recognition of h ...
''
* ''Desmopuntius
''Desmopuntius'' is a genus of small freshwater cyprinids native to Southeast Asia. They were formerly included in '' Puntius''.
Etymology
The name ''Desmopuntius'' is derived from the Greek language δεσμψτης ("desmotes") meaning 'pris ...
''
* ''Diptychus
''Diptychus'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish, consisting of two species found in Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau of China, India, Nepal and Pakistan, ranging west to the Tien Shan Mountains and Central Asia.Li, G.; Y. Tang; R. Zhang; and ...
''
* ''Enteromius
''Enteromius'' is a genus of small to medium-sized cyprinid fish native to tropical Africa. Most species were placed in the genus ''Barbus
''Barbus'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. The type species of ''Barbus'' is ...
''
* ''Haludaria
''Haludaria'' is a genus of cyprinids native to freshwater habitats in the Western Ghats of India. Originally the genus was named ''Dravidia'' Pethiyagoda, Meegaskumbura & Maduwage, 2012 which is preoccupied by the dipteran genus ''Dravidia'' L ...
''
* '' Hsianwenia''[
* '']Kalimantania
''Kalimantania lawak'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Indonesia occurring on the islands of Borneo and Java
Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Oce ...
''
* ''Luciobarbus
''Luciobarbus'' is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae. Its members are found in fresh and brackish waters of southern Europe, northern Africa, the wider Near East, the Aral and Caspian Seas, and rivers associated with these. ...
''
* ''Mesopotamichthys
The binni (''Mesopotamichthys sharpeyi'') is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to the Tigris–Euphrates Basin in the Middle East. This fish mostly inhabits lakes and marshes, especially in densely vegetated places where it also lays its eggs, b ...
''
* ''Neobarynotus
''Neobarynotus microlepis'' is a species of cyprinid fish found is Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-e ...
''
* ''Oliotius
The checker barb (''Oliotius oligolepis'')Kottelat, M. (2013)The Fishes of the Inland Waters of Southeast Asia: A Catalogue and Core Bibliography of the Fishes Known to Occur in Freshwaters, Mangroves and Estuaries. ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zool ...
'' [
* '']Oreichthys
''Oreichthys'' is a genus of tropical Barb (fish), barbs found in Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Myanmar (Burma), northern Malay Peninsula, and the Mekong basin in Laos. They are found in ditches, ponds, streams (both highland and lowland) a ...
''
* ''Pethia
''Pethia'' is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae native to South Asia, East Asia (only Pethia stoliczkana recorded) and Mainland Southeast Asia. Some species are commonly seen in the aquarium trade. The name ''Pethia'' is d ...
'' [
* '']Pseudobarbus
''Pseudobarbus'' is a ray-finned fish genus in the family Cyprinidae. The type species is Burchell's redfin (''P. burchelli''). The scientific name is derived from the Ancient Greek ''pseudes'' ("false") and the Latin word ''barbus'' ("beard", ...
'' (redfins)
* ''Puntigrus
''Puntigrus'' is a genus of cyprinids native to Southeast Asia.
Etymology
The name ''Puntigrus'' is derived from the first syllable of the cyprinid genus '' Puntius'' and "tigrus" (to allude to the Latin ''"tigris"'' meaning "tiger").
Specie ...
'' [
* '']Puntius
''Puntius'' is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae native to South Asia and Mainland Southeast Asia, as well as Taiwan.
Many species formerly placed in ''Puntius'' have been moved to other genera such as ''Barbodes'', ''Daw ...
'' (spotted barbs)
* ''Sahyadria
''Sahyadria'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes native to India where they are endemic to rivers and streams in the Western Ghats. They were formerly included in '' Puntius''. The largest ''Sahyadria'' measure total length
Fish measurement is th ...
''
* ''Schizopyge
''Schizopyge'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish found in Pakistan and the northwestern part of India. ''Schizopyge'' is closely related to ''Schizothorax'' and some species have historically been moved between the two genera.
Species
There ...
'' (snowtrouts)
* ''Schizothorax
''Schizothorax'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in southern and western China, through northern South Asia (Himalaya) and Central Asia, to Iran, with a single species, ''S. prophylax'', in Turkey.Yang, J.; J.X. Yang; and X.Y. Chen (2012). A re ...
'' (snowtrouts)
* ''Sinocyclocheilus
''Sinocyclocheilus'' is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae endemic to China, where only found in Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan.Ma, L.; and Y.-H. Zhao (2012). Cavefish of China. Pp. 107—125 in: White, W.B.; and D.C. Cuvier, editor ...
'' (golden-line fish)
* '' Striuntius'' [
* '' Systomus''
]
Subfamily
Cultrinae
The Cultrinae are one of at least 13 subfamilies of cyprinid fish. It contains ten genera.
Recognized genera
* ''Anabarilius'' (21 species)
* ''Ancherythroculter'' (5 species)
* ''Chanodichthys'' (5 species)
* '' Culter'' (4 species)
* ''Cultri ...
* ''Anabarilius
''Anabarilius'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae, most of them only occurring in China. Many of the species have very restricted geographic range and have been negatively impacted by introduced species, fishing, and habitat ...
''
* ''Chanodichthys
''Chanodichthys'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish, consisting of five species from eastern Asia (China, Mongolia, Russia and Vietnam). The name is derived from the Greek word ''chanos'', meaning "abyss, mouth opened, inmensity", and the Gr ...
''
* '' Culter''
* ''Cultrichthys
''Cultrichthys compressocorpus'' is a species of cyprinid
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is ...
''
* '' Hainania''
* ''Hemiculter
''Hemiculter'' is a genus of cyprinid fish, consisting of eight species native to fresh water of eastern Asia (Siberia to Vietnam). The type species is the sharpbelly, ''Culter leucisculus''. The name is derived from the Greek word ''hemis'', m ...
'' (sharpbellies)
* ''Ischikauia
''Ischikauia steenackeri'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Lake Biwa
is the largest freshwater lake in Japan, located entirely within Shiga Prefecture (west-central Honshu), northeast of the former capital city of Kyoto. Lake Biw ...
''
* ''Megalobrama
''Megalobrama'' is a genus of cyprinid fish, consisting of six species native to fresh water in China and eastern Russia. The name is derived from the Greek word ''megalos'', meaning "great", and the Old French
Old French (, , ; Modern Frenc ...
''
* ''Parabramis
The white Amur bream (''Parabramis pekinensis'') is a species of cyprinid freshwater fish, of the monotypic genus ''Parabramis''. It is native to eastern Asia, where found from the Amur River basin in Russia south to Ningpo and Shanghai in Chi ...
'' (white Amur bream)
* ''Paralaubuca
''Paralaubuca'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern regio ...
''
* ''Pseudohemiculter
''Pseudohemiculter'' is a genus of cyprinid fish occurring in eastern Asia. There are currently four species in the genus.
Species
* ''Pseudohemiculter dispar'' ( W. K. H. Peters, 1881)
* ''Pseudohemiculter hainanensis'' (Boulenger, 1900)
* ''Ps ...
''
* ''Pseudolaubuca
''Pseudolaubuca'' is a genus of cyprinid fish from eastern Asia. There are currently four species in this genus.
Species
* '' Pseudolaubuca engraulis'' (Nichols Nichols may refer to:
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* ''Sinibrama
''Sinibrama'' is a small genus of cyprinid fishes, the five currently recognized species distributed in south China, Taiwan, Laos, and Vietnam. These are silvery fishes with deep, laterally compressed bodies, large eyes, and terminal mouths. The ...
''
* ''Toxabramis
''Toxabramis'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia
Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the ...
''
Subfamily
Cyprininae
The Cyprininae are one of at least 11 subfamilies of cyprinid fish. It contains three genera in its strictest definition but many more are included depending on which authority is defining it, especially if the Labeobarbinae is not considered to ...
* ''Arabibarbus
''Arabibarbus'' is a genus of Cyprinidae. They are medium-small to very large freshwater carps found in the Western Asia.Borkenhagen, K. (2014): A new genus and species of cyprinid fish (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae) from the Arabian Peninsula, an ...
''
* ''Barboides
''Barboides'' is a genus of very small ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae from freshwater habitats in West Africa, West and Middle Africa.
Species
*''Barboides britzi'' Kevin W. Conway, Conway & Timo Moritz, Moritz, 2006
*''Barboides graci ...
''
* ''Barbonymus
''Barbonymus'' is a ray-finned fish genus in the family Cyprinidae, containing some barb species. The genus was only established in 1999, with the tinfoil barb (''B. schwanenfeldii'') as type species; thus, these fish are sometimes collectively ...
'' (tinfoil barbs)
* ''Capoeta
''Capoeta'', also known as scrapers, is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Western Asia. The distribution extends from Turkey to the Levant, to Transcaucasia, Iraq, Turkmenistan , in Armenia,particularly in lake Sevan and northern ...
'' (khramulyas)
* ''Carassioides
''Carassioides'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that occurs in East and Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south ...
''
* ''Carassius
''Carassius ''is a genus in the ray-finned fish family Cyprinidae. Most species in this genus are commonly known as crucian carps, though this term often specifically refers to '' C. carassius''. The most well known is the goldfish (''C. auratus ...
'' (Crucian carps and goldfish
The goldfish (''Carassius auratus'') is a freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. It is commonly kept as a pet in indoor aquariums, and is one of the most popular aquarium fish. Goldfish released into the wild have ...
)
* ''Cyprinus
''Cyprinus'' 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 othe ...
'' (typical carps)
* ''Eechathalakenda
The Channa barb (''Eechathalakenda ophicephalus'') (formerly ''Puntius ophicephalus''), is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-large ...
''
* ''Gymnocypris
''Gymnocypris'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae endemic to China.
Species
There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Gymnocypris chilianensis'' S. C. Li & S. Y. Chang, 1974
* ''Gymnocypris chui'' T. L. Tchang, T ...
''
Subfamily Danioninae
* ''Amblypharyngodon
The carplets (''Amblypharyngodon'') are a genus of fishes in the family Cyprinidae. They are up to in total length and inhabit a wide range of slow-moving or stagnant freshwater habitats in South and Mainland Southeast Asia.
Species
There are 5 ...
'' (carplets)
* '' Aspidoparia''
* ''Barilius
''Barilius'' is a large genus of cyprinid freshwater fishes native to Asia. Four species in this genus have been described since 2012.
Species
There are currently 31 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Barilius ardens'' Knight, A. Rai, D ...
''
* ''Betadevario
''Betadevario ramachandrani'' is a species of cyprinid fish that is found only in the upper Seetha River drainage in Karnataka, India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-large ...
''
* ''Boraras
''Boraras'' is a small genus of Asian cyprinid fishes.
Species
* ''Boraras brigittae'' (Dieter Vogt, D. Vogt, 1978) (Chili rasbora, Mosquito rasbora)
* ''Boraras maculatus'' (Paul Georg Egmont Duncker, Duncker, 1904) (Dwarf rasbora)
* ''Borar ...
'' (rasboras)
* '' Cabdio''
* ''Chelaethiops
''Chelaethiops'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in lakes and rivers of Africa. While commonly called "sardines", they are not related to the true sardines of the family Clupeidae. There are currently five recognized species in this genus.
...
''
* ''Chela
Chela may refer to:
* ''Chela'' (fish), a genus of small minnow-type fish in the Cyprinid family
* Chela (organ), a pincer-like organ terminating certain limbs of some arthropods such as crabs
* Chela (meteorite), a meteorite fall of 1988 in Tanz ...
''
* ''Danio
''Danio'' is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae found in South and Southeast Asia, commonly kept in aquaria. They are generally characterised by a pattern of horizontal stripes, rows of spots or vertical bars. Some species ...
'' (danios)
* ''Danionella
''Danionella'' is a genus of danionin fish found in freshwater habitats in Myanmar and West Bengal, India. It includes some of the smallest fishes.
Distribution
Four out of Five Described species of ''Danionella'' are found in Myanmar. ''D. tra ...
''
* ''Devario
''Devario'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae native to the rivers and streams of South and Southeast Asia. These fishes have short barbels and many species having vertical or horizontal stripes. These species consume various small, aqu ...
''
* ''Esomus
''Esomus'', or flying barbs, are freshwater fish native to South Asia, South and Mainland Southeast Asia. They are closely related to the genus ''Danio'' and are distinctive for their extremely long barbels.
Species
* ''Esomus ahli'' Sunder La ...
'' (flying barbs)
* ''Engraulicypris
''Engraulicypris'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae endemism, endemic to Africa. In a study of Mitochondrial DNA, mitochondrial genealogy, the species formerly included in ''Mesobola'' are not Phylogenetic tree, phylo ...
''
* '' Fangfangia''
* '' Horadandia''
* ''Inlecypris
''Inlecypris jayarami'' is a danionin cyprinid from Lake Inle, Myanmar. Fishbase place this species in the monotypic genus ''Inlecypris'' but it is considered by some authorities.e.g. the IUCN, to be better placed in the genus ''Devario
''Dev ...
''
* ''Laubuka
''Laubuka'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in South and Southeast Asia.
Species
There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus:
* '' Laubuka brahmaputraensis'' Kulabtong, Suksri & Nonpayom, 2012 Kulabtong, S., Suksri, S. & Nonpayo ...
''
* ''Leptocypris
''Leptocypris'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) includin ...
''
* ''Luciosoma
''Luciosoma'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in Southeast Asia. There are currently five species in this genus.
Species
* '' Luciosoma bleekeri'' Steindachner, 1878 (Shark minnow)
* '' Luciosoma pellegrinii'' Popta, 1905
* '' Luciosoma set ...
''
* ''Malayochela
''Malayochela maassi'' Is a species of cyprinid fish found in Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei
Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam ( ms, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi: , ), is a country located on the north coast of the island of B ...
''
* ''Microdevario
''Microdevario'' is a small genus of danionin cyprinids. It was recently described to include species previously in the genus '' Microrasbora''. 2009. Molecular phylogenetic interrelationships of the south Asian cyprinid genera ''Danio'', ''Deva ...
''
* ''Microrasbora
''Microrasbora'' is a genus of small fishes. The generic name means "small Rasbora", however these are more closely related to the danios than rasboras. They inhabit freshwater in Myanmar and Yunnan, China.
Taxonomy
''Microrasbora'', until rec ...
''
* ''Nematabramis
''Nematabramis'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish that occur in Borneo and the Philippines. There are currently five described species in this genus.
Species
* ''Nematabramis alestes'' ( Seale & B. A. Bean, 1907)
* ''Nematabramis borneen ...
''
* ''Neobola
''Neobola'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes found mostly in East Africa
East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regio ...
''
* ''Opsaridium
''Opsaridium'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in Africa. Currently, 12 species are in this genus.
Species
* '' Opsaridium boweni'' ( Fowler, 1930)
* '' Opsaridium engrauloides'' ( Nichols, 1923)
* '' Opsaridium leleupi'' ( Matthes, 1965)
...
''
* ''Opsarius Species
* '' Opsarius barna'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822) (''Barilius barna'')
* '' Opsarius barnoides'' Decio Vinciguerra, 1890
* '' Opsarius bernatziki'' Koumans, 1937
* '' Opsarius cocsa'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822)
* ''Opsarius koratensis'' ( H. M. Smith, 19 ...
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* ''Paedocypris
''Paedocypris'' is a genus of tiny cyprinid fish found in swamps and streams on the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo, Sumatra and Bintan.
''Paedocypris progenetica'' has been claimed to be the one of smallest known species of fish in the world ...
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* ''Pectenocypris
''Pectenocypris'' is a genus of small fish in the family Cyprinidae endemic to freshwater habitats in Borneo and Sumatra in Indonesia.
Species
There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Pectenocypris balaena'' T. R. Roberts, 1 ...
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* ''Raiamas
''Raiamas'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fishes. The majority of the species are from Africa, but ''R. bola'' and ''R. guttatus '' are from South and Southeast Asia.
Species
* '' Raiamas ansorgii'' ( Boulenger, 1910)
* '' Raiamas batesii ...
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* ''Rasbora
''Rasbora'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. They are native to freshwater habitats in South and akistan s_...
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* ''Rasboroides''
* ''Rasbosoma'' (dwarf scissortail rasbora)
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Rastrineobola
The silver cyprinid (''Rastrineobola argentea'') also known as the Lake Victoria sardine, mukene,and omena (native language), dagaa (swahili language) is a species of pelagic, freshwater ray-finned fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae from East A ...
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* ''
Salmostoma'' (razorbelly minnows)
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Securicula
''Securicula gora'' is a species of cyprinid fish found in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and possibly in Nepal. It is the only species in its genus.
Description
Sericula gora'' is a silvery fish with an upward pointing mouth, shich has a prominent ...
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Sundadanio''
* ''Trigonopoma''
* ''Trigonostigma''
Subfamily
Gobioninae
Gobioninae is a monophyletic subfamily of Eurasian cyprinid fishes. A species-rich subfamily, it is divided into five tribes: Gobionini, Pseudogobionini, Hemibarbini, Coreiini, and Sarcocheilichthyini.
To adapt to different masticatory operation ...
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Abbottina
''Abbottina'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. They are native to eastern Asia (China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam).Froese, R. and D. Pauly. (Eds.''Abbottina'' species list.FishBase. 2011. The genus was ...
'' (false gudgeons)
* ''
Belligobio
''Belligobio'' is a small genus of cyprinid fishes containing two recognized species endemic to China. The type species of ''Belligobio'' is ''Belligobio eristigma'', a synonym of '' Hemibarbus mylodon'', and this taxa is not currently classified ...
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* ''
Biwia
''Biwia'' is a small genus of cyprinid fishes containing four species, three of which are endemic to Japan, and one of which ('' B. springeri'') is endemic to Korea
Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1 ...
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* ''
Coreius
''Coreius'' is a genus of cyprinid fish belonging to the subfamily Gobioninae. They are known as gudgeons. This genus is endemic to freshwater habitats in China. It currently contains four recognized species.
Species
* ''Coreius cetopsis'' ( Kn ...
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* ''
Coreoleuciscus
''Coreoleuciscus'' is a genus of fish from the cyprinid Family (biology), family Endemism, endemic to rivers of Korea, rivers of the Korean peninsula.
Species
There are currently 2 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Coreoleuciscus aeruginos'' ...
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* ''
Gnathopogon
''Gnathopogon'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia. There are currently nine species in this genus.
Species
''Gnathopogon'' has the following species.
* '' Gnathopogon caerulescens'' ( Sauvage, 1883)
* '' Gnathopogon elongatus'' ...
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* ''
Gobio
''Gobio'' is a genus of typical gudgeons, ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae many of which are endemics of south-eastern Europe. Members of the genus are usually small fish, rarely longer than 10 cm.
Many species previously in ''Gobio ...
'' (typical gudgeons)
* ''
Gobiobotia
''Gobiobotia'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in eastern Asia. Species are typically small Bottom dweller, bottom dwellers.
Species
There are currently 19 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Gobiobotia abbreviata'' Fang Ping-Wen, P. ...
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* ''
Gobiocypris
''Gobiocypris rarus'' is a freshwater species of cyprinid fish endemic to China where it is only found near Jiuxiang in Sichuan
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; former ...
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* ''
Hemibarbus
''Hemibarbus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia. There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus.
Species
* '' Hemibarbus brevipennus'' P. Q. Yue, 1995
* '' Hemibarbus labeo'' (Pallas, 1776) (Barbel steed)
* '' Hemibar ...
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* ''
Huigobio
''Huigobio'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in Eastern Asia.
Species
These are the currently recognized species in this genus:
* ''Huigobio chenhsienensis'' P. W. Fang, 1938, 1938
* ''Huigobio exilicauda'' Jiang & Zhang, 2013
* ''Hu ...
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* ''
Ladislavia''
* ''
Mesogobio
''Mesogobio'' is a genus of cyprinid
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most ...
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* ''
Microphysogobio
''Microphysogobio'' is a genus of freshwater fish in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae native to East Asia.
Species
There are currently 28 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Microphysogobio alticorpus'' Petru Mihai Bănărescu, Bănăr ...
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* ''
Paracanthobrama
''Paracanthobrama guichenoti'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to China. It is the only member of its genus.
Named in honor of Antoine Alphone Guichenot
Antoine Alphonse Guichenot (31 July 1809 in Paris – 17 February 1876 in Cluny ...
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* ''
Paraleucogobio
''Paraleucogobio notacanthus'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are ...
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* ''
Parasqualidus''
* ''
Platysmacheilus
''Platysmacheilus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous t ...
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* ''
Pseudogobio
''Pseudogobio'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia. There are currently four described species in this genus.
Species
* '' Pseudogobio banggiangensis'' V. H. Nguyễn, 2001
* '' Pseudogobio esocinus'' (Temminck & Schlegel
Schle ...
''
* ''
Pseudopungtungia''
* ''
Pseudorasbora
''Pseudorasbora'' is a genus of small freshwater fish native to eastern Asia, including China, Korea, Japan and Siberia. ''P. parva'', has been Introduced species, introduced to regions outside its native range and is considered Invasive species, ...
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* ''
Pungtungia
''Pungtungia'' is a genus of cyprinid
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most ...
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* ''
Rhinogobio
''Rhinogobio'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a ...
''
* ''
Romanogobio
''Romanogobio'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in Europe and Asia.
Species
Currently, 18 described species are in this genus, including the extinct ''R. antipai'':
* '' Romanogobio albipinnatus'' (Lukasch, 1933) (white-finned gudgeon)
* '' R ...
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* ''
Sarcocheilichthys
''Sarcocheilichthys'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in eastern Asia. There are currently 12 species in the genus.
Species
* '' Sarcocheilichthys biwaensis'' K. Hosoya, 1982
* '' Sarcocheilichthys caobangensis'' V. H. Nguyễn & V. B. Vo ...
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* ''
Saurogobio
''Saurogobio'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia.
Species
There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Saurogobio dabryi'' Bleeker, 1871 (Chinese lizard gudgeon)
* '' Saurogobio dumerili'' Bleeker, 1871
* ''Sauro ...
''
* ''
Squalidus
''Squalidus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that occurs in eastern Asia. There are currently 14 described species in this genus.
Species
* '' Squalidus argentatus'' ( Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874)
* '' Squalidus atromaculatus'' (Nichols & ...
''
* ''
Xenophysogobio
''Xenophysogobio'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemism, endemic to China. There are currently two described species in this genus.
Species
* ''Xenophysogobio boulengeri'' (Tchang Tchung-Lin, T. L. Tchang, 1929)
* ''Xenophysogobio nudicorpa'' (Hu ...
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Subfamily
Labeoninae
Labeoninae is a doubtfully distinct subfamily of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. They inhabit fresh water and the largest species richness is in the region around southern China, but there are also species else ...
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Bangana
''Bangana'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. It is distributed across much of southern and eastern Asia. Species live mainly in the flowing waters of tropical and subtropical rivers.Liu, K. and W. Zhou. (2009)' ...
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* ''
Brevibora
''Brevibora'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia. They are small, no more than in standard length, and restricted to acidic blackwater rivers, streams and peat swamp lakes in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Born ...
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Cirrhinus
''Cirrhinus'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. Members of this genus are native to freshwater in South Asia, Indochina and southern China.Froese, R. and D. Pauly. (Eds.''Cirrhinus'' species list. FishBase. 2011. ...
'' (mud carps)
* ''
Cophecheilus
''Cophecheilus'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae. These fish occur only in China.
Species
There are currently 2 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Cophecheilus bamen'' Zhu Yu (ichthyologist), Y. Zhu, Zhang E, E. ...
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* ''
Crossocheilus
''Crossocheilus'', also known as the fringe barbs, flying foxes, or "algae eaters", is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is distributed in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in Asia. These fish occur in several types of hab ...
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* ''
Discocheilus
''Discocheilus'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes Endemism, endemic to China. This genus contains two recognized species.
Species
* ''Discocheilus multilepis'' (Wang Da-Zhong, D. Z. Wang & Li De-Jun, D. J. Li, 1994)
* ''Discocheilus wui'' (Chen Jin ...
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* ''
Discogobio
''Discogobio'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that are found in eastern Asia. So far the 16 species have only been identified from China (11 species) and Vietnam (5 species) wherein each species is Endemism, endemic to the country in which it is fou ...
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* ''
Discolabeo''
* ''
Garra
''Garra'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. These fish are one example of the "log suckers", sucker-mouthed barbs and other cyprinids commonly kept in aquaria to keep down algae. The doctor fish of Anatolia and the Middle East belo ...
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Henicorhynchus
''Henicorhynchus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that occurs in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-easter ...
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* ''
Horalabiosa
''Horalabiosa''Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.) (2004) Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of January 2004., Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in January 2004. is a disputed genus of cyprinid fish found only in India. There are curre ...
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* ''
Hongshuia
''Hongshuia'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that consists of four species, all Endemism, endemic to China.
Species
* ''Hongshuia banmo'' Zhang E, E. Zhang, Qiang Xie, X. Qiang & Lan Jia-Hu, J. H. Lan, 2008
* ''Hongshuia megalophthalmus'' (Chen, Ya ...
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* ''
Labeo
''Labeo'' is a genus of carps in the family Cyprinidae. They are found in freshwater habitats in the tropics and subtropics of Africa and Asia.
It contains the typical labeos in the subfamily Labeoninae, which may not be a valid group, however, ...
'' (labeos)
* ''
Labeobarbus
''Labeobarbus'' is a mid-sized ray-finned fish genus in the family Cyprinidae. Its species are widely distributed throughout eastern Africa and especially southern Africa, but also in Lake Tana in Ethiopia. A common name, in particular for th ...
'' (yellowfish)
* ''
Labiobarbus
''Labiobarbus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in Southeast Asia. It currently contains nine described species.
Species
A total of 9 species have been assigned:
* '' Labiobarbus cyanopareja'' ( Heckel, 1843)
* '' Labiobarbus fasciatus'' ( Bl ...
''
* ''
Longanalus''
* ''
Osteochilichthys
''Osteochilichthys'' is a small genus of cyprinid fishes. It is endemic to southern India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous ...
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* ''
Osteochilus
''Osteochilus'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes mainly found in Southeast Asia with a few extending into adjacent parts of China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List ...
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* ''
Paraqianlabeo''
* ''
Parasinilabeo''
* ''
Placocheilus
''Placocheilus caudofasciatus'' is a species of cyprinid native to Laos, Vietnam and China in eastern Asia
Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a ...
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* ''
Protolabeo''
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Pseudocrossocheilus
''Pseudocrossocheilus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigeno ...
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* ''
Pseudogyrinocheilus
''Pseudogyrinocheilus prochilus'' is a species of fish in the family Cyprinidae, found in Yangtze River and its tributaries in China. This species is the only member of its genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biol ...
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Ptychidio
''Ptychidio'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemism, endemic to China.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''Ptychidio jordani'' George S. Myers, G. S. Myers, 1930
* ''Ptychidio longibarbus'' Chen Yi-Yu, Yi-Yu Ch ...
''
* ''
Qianlabeo''
* ''
Rectoris
''Rectoris'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in China and Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Sout ...
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* ''
Semilabeo
''Semilabeo'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in rivers and streams in China and Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the easter ...
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* ''
Sinigarra
''Sinigarra napoense'' is a species of labeonin cyprinid fish known only from Guangxi Province, China. This species grows to a length of SL. This species is the only known member of its genus.
Etymology
The generic name is derived from th ...
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* ''
Sinilabeo''
* ''
Sinocrossocheilus
''Sinocrossocheilus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous ...
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* ''
Stenorynchoacrum''
* ''
Tariqilabeo
''Tariqilabeo'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae native to Asia.Kottelat, M. (2016): On ''Gonorynchus'', ''Gonorhynchus'', ''Gonorinchus'', ''Gonorhinchus'' and ''Gonorrhynchus'', and some other names of labeonine fi ...
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* ''
Vinagarra
''Vinagarra'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae endemic to Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edg ...
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* ''
Vinalabeo''
Subfamily
Leptobarbinae
''Leptobarbus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that are native to freshwater habitats in Southeast Asia. They are important food fish. It is the only genus in the subfamily Leptobarbinae. Leptobarbus hoevenii or "sultan fish" migrate the fresh water ...
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Leptobarbus
''Leptobarbus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that are native to freshwater habitats in Southeast Asia. They are important food fish. It is the only genus in the subfamily Leptobarbinae. Leptobarbus hoevenii or "sultan fish" migrate the fresh water ...
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Subfamily
Leuciscinae
Leuciscinae is a subfamily of the freshwater fish family Cyprinidae, which contains the true minnows.
Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnows. As the name suggests, most members of the O ...
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Abramis
The common bream, freshwater bream, bream, bronze bream, carp bream or sweaty bream (''Abramis brama''), is a European species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is now considered to be the only species in the genus ''Abramis''.
...
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Acanthobrama
''Acanthobrama'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae found mostly in the Near East.
Species
* '' Acanthobrama centisquama'' Heckel, 1843
* '' Acanthobrama hadiyahensis'' Coad, Alkahem & Behnke, 1983
* †'' Acanthobram ...
'' (bleaks)
* ''
Achondrostoma
''Achondrostoma'' is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. It is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula.Robalo, J. I., et al. (2007)Re-examination and phylogeny of the genus ''Chondrostoma'' based on mitochondrial ...
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Anaecypris
''Anaecypris hispanica'', the Spanish minnowcarp, is a small species of ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. It is the only living member of the genus ''Anaecypris''. It is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and is found in the basin o ...
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Acrocheilus
The chiselmouth (''Acrocheilus alutaceus'') is an unusual cyprinid fish of western North America. It is named for the sharp hard plate on its lower jaw, which is used to scrape rocks for algae. It is the sole member of the monotypic genus ''Acro ...
'' (chiselmouth)
* ''
Agosia
The longfin dace (''Agosia chrysogaster'') is a leuciscid fish that is found in western North America in the United States and Mexico. It is the only member of its genus. The Gila longfin dace is considered the nominate subspecies. The Yaqui lo ...
'' (longfin dace)
* ''
Algansea
''Algansea'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae, distributed in the Lerma– Chapala– Grande de Santiago, Pátzcuaro, Armería, Ameca, Ayutla and Tuxpan basins in west-central Mexico (mostly Jalisco, but also surrounding ...
'' (Mexican chubs)
* ''
Aztecula'' (Aztec chub)
* ''
Ballerus
''Ballerus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish containing two Eurasian species.
Species
* ''Ballerus ballerus'' (Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 1758) (Zope)
* ''Ballerus sapa'' (Peter Simon Pallas, Pallas, 1814) (White-eye ...
'' (breams)
* ''
Blicca
''Blicca bjoerkna'', alternatively called the white bream or the silver bream, is a European species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae.
Distribution
''Blicca bjoerkna'' is distributed across most of Europe and in adjacent Western Asi ...
'' (silver bream)
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Campostoma
''Campostoma'', the stonerollers, is a genus of cyprinid fish found in North America. There are currently six species recognized for this genus.
Species
* '' Campostoma anomalum'' (Rafinesque, 1820) (Central stoneroller)
* '' Campostoma oligole ...
'' (stonerollers)
* ''
Chondrostoma
''Chondrostoma'' (from the Ancient Greek roots (''khondros'') 'lump' + (''stoma'') 'mouth' = 'lump-mouth') is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. They are commonly known as nases, although this term is also used locally to ...
'' (typical nases)
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Chrosomus
''Chrosomus'' is a genus of small cyprinid fish found in freshwater habitats in the eastern half of the United States and Canada. There are currently seven recognized species in this genus. They have sometimes been included in ''Phoxinus''. They ...
'' (typical daces)
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Clinostomus
''Clinostomus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that occur in eastern North America. There are two species in this genus.
Species
* '' Clinostomus elongatus'' ( Kirtland, 1840) (Redside dace)
* ''Clinostomus funduloides
The rosyside dace (''Clino ...
'' (redside daces)
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Codoma
The ornate shiner (''Codoma ornata'') is a cyprinid fish endemic to Mexico
Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. ...
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Coreoleuciscus
''Coreoleuciscus'' is a genus of fish from the cyprinid Family (biology), family Endemism, endemic to rivers of Korea, rivers of the Korean peninsula.
Species
There are currently 2 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Coreoleuciscus aeruginos'' ...
'' (Korean splendid dace)
* ''
Couesius'' (lake chub)
* ''
Cyprinella
''Cyprinella'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. They are known as the satinfin shiners. They are native to North America, and some are among the most common freshwater fish species on the eastern side of the con ...
'' (satinfin shiners)
* ''
Delminichthys''
* ''
Dionda
''Dionda'' is the genus of desert minnows, small fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae. They are native to fresh waters in the United States and Mexico. Their range is centered in the Rio Grande basin, but they also occur in associated systems ...
'' (desert minnows)
* ''
Eremichthys
The desert dace (''Eremichthys acros'') is a rare cyprinid fish known only from the warm springs and creeks of Soldier Meadow in western Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. It is the only member of the monotypic genus ''Eremichthys''. The species is ...
'' (desert dace)
* ''
Ericymba
''Ericymba'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. They are native to North America.Yang, L., Sado, T., Hirt, M.V., Pasco-Viel, E., Arunachalam, M., Li, J., Wang, X., Freyhof, J., Saitoh, K., Simons, A.M., Miya, M., He, S. & Mayden, R.L. ...
'' (longjaw minnows)
* ''
Erimystax
''Erimystax'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. Members are commonly known as slender chubs, though "slender chub" is also used for individual species local to some area, particularly ''Erimystax cahni''.
Species
* ''Eri ...
'' (slender chubs)
*
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Evarra
''Evarra'' was a genus of small ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. All species in the genus were restricted to waters in the Valley of Mexico and are now extinct due to habitat loss (their habitat dried out with remaining waters in the reg ...
'' (Mexican daces)
* ''
Exoglossum
''Exoglossum'' is a genus of mound-building freshwater fish of the minnow family ( Cyprinidae) containing two species, commonly known as cutlip minnows, although the individual species, particularly ''Exoglossum maxillingua'', are also locally ...
'' (cutlips minnows)
* ''
Gila'' (western chubs)
* ''
Hemitremia
The flame chub (''Hemitremia flammea'') is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae found only in the United States. Its range broadly follows the Tennessee River from above Knoxville, Tennessee, to the mouth of the Duck River (Tenne ...
'' (flame chub)
* ''
Hesperoleucus
The California roach (''Hesperoleucus symmetricus'') is a cyprinid fish native to western North America and abundant in the intermittent streams throughout central California. Once considered the sole member of its genus, it has recently been sp ...
'' (California roach)
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Hybognathus
''Hybognathus'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. Its members are collectively known as the silvery minnows. Hybognathus are pelagophils that are native to North America. The populations of such pelagophils, including specie ...
'' (silvery minnows)
* ''
Hybopsis
''Hybopsis'' is a genus of cyprinid fish Endemism, endemic to the United States. There are currently six described species in this genus.
Species
* ''Hybopsis amblops'' (Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Rafinesque, 1820) (Bigeye chub)
* ''Hybopsis ...
'' (bigeye chubs)
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Iberochondrostoma
''Iberochondrostoma'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemic to the Iberian Peninsula.
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus:
* '' Iberochondrostoma almacai'' ( M. M. Coelho, Mesquita & Collares-Pereira, 2005)
* ''Iberoc ...
''
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Iberocypris
''Squalius'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae found in Europe and Asia. Hybrid (biology), Hybridization is not rare in the Cyprinidae, including this genus. ''Squalius alburnoides, S. alburnoides'' is known to be of a ...
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Iotichthys'' (least chub)
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Kottelatia
''Kottelatia brittani'' is a species of cyprinid fish native to Sumatra and peninsular Malaysia
Peninsular Malaysia ( ms, Semenanjung Malaysia; Jawi: سمننجڠ مليسيا), or the States of Malaya ( ms, Negeri-negeri Tanah Melayu; Ja ...
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Ladigesocypris
''Ladigesocypris'' is a small genus of freshwater ray-finned fish from the carp and minnow family, Cyprinidae. It comprises two species which are endemic to Anatolia.
Species
The two species included in this genus are:
*''Ladigesocypris irideus ...
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Lavinia
In Roman mythology, Lavinia ( ; ) is the daughter of Latinus and Amata, and the last wife of Aeneas.
Creation
It has been proposed that the character was in part intended to represent Servilia Isaurica, Emperor Augustus's first fiancée.
Stor ...
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Lepidomeda
''Lepidomeda'' is a genus of cyprinid fish, commonly known as the spinedaces, found in western North America. Of the four known species, one is extinct and two are threatened. They appear to be fairly close to the leatherside chub and the spike ...
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Leucalburnus
''Leucalburnus satunini'', the mountain dace or White Kura bleak , is a species of cyprinid
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the ...
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Leucaspius
''Leucaspius delineatus'', known as the sunbleak, belica or moderlieschen is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is currently the only species included in genus ''Leucaspius'', whereas formerly others were included, which n ...
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Leuciscus
''Leuciscus'' is a genus of fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae. They are inland water fishes commonly called Eurasian daces. The genus is widespread from Europe to Siberia. Species broadly distributed in Europe include the common dace ''Le ...
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Leucos
''Leucos'' is a genus of fishes in the family Cyprinidae, from Southern Europe. They are carp close to the genus ''Rutilus'', and were only recently taxonomically distinguished from that genus.Bianco, P.G., Ketmaier, V. (2014)A revision of the ...
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Luxilus
''Luxilus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in North America. They are commonly known as highscale shiners. There are currently nine species in the genus.
Species
* '' Luxilus albeolus'' ( D. S. Jordan, 1889) (white shiner)
* '' Luxilus car ...
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Lythrurus
''Lythrurus'', the finescale shiners, is a genus of cyprinid fish found in North America. There are currently 11 species in this genus.
Species
* '' Lythrurus alegnotus'' ( Snelson, 1972) (warrior shiner)
* '' Lythrurus ardens'' (Cope, 1868) ...
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Macrhybopsis
''Macrhybopsis'', the blacktail chubs, is a genus of cyprinid fish that are found in North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the no ...
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Margariscus
''Margariscus'', known as the pearl daces, is a genus of Leuciscidae, leusiscid fishes found in North America. There are currently two recognized species in this genus. Margariscus comes from the Greek word ''margariskos,'' meaning pearl.
Speci ...
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Places
* Meda de Mouros, a parish in Tábua Municipality, Portugal
* Medas, a parish in Gondomar Municipality, Portugal
* Meda-Ela, Sri Lanka
* Međa (Leskovac), village in the municipality of Leskovac, Serbia
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Moapa'' (moapa dace)
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Mylocheilus
''Mylocheilus caurinus'', the peamouth, peamouth chub, redmouth sucker or northwestern dace, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish from the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows, that is found in western North America. It is the only spe ...
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Mylopharodon
''Mylopharadon conocephalus'', known as the hardhead, is a freshwater ray-finned fish from the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows, which is endemic to California. It is the sole member of the monotypic genus ''Mylopharadon''.
Description
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Nocomis
''Nocomis'' is a genus of cyprinid fish native to North America. There are currently seven described species in this genus.
Species
* '' Nocomis asper'' Lachner & R. E. Jenkins, 1971 (Redspot chub)
* '' Nocomis biguttatus'' ( Kirtland, 1840) ...
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Notemigonus'' (golden shiner)
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Notropis
''Notropis'' is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. They are known commonly as eastern shiners.''N ...
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Opsopoeodus
The pugnose minnow (''Opsopoeodus emiliae'') is a species of cyprinid fish found in the eastern North America. There are two recognized subspecies with the subspecies from Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of ...
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Oregonichthys
''Oregonichthys'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. Collectively known as Oregon chubs, that term can also refer to ''O. crameri'' in particular.
Species
* ''Oregonichthys crameri'' ( Snyder, 1908) (Oregon chub)
* ''Oreg ...
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Orthodon
The Sacramento blackfish (''Orthodon microlepidotus'') is a species of freshwater fish in central California. A cyprinid, the blackfish is the sole member of its genus.
Distribution and habitat
Blackfish are primarily denizens of the warm and ...
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Pachychilon
''Pachychilon'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in Europe. There are two recognized species in this genus.
Species
* '' Pachychilon macedonicum'' (Steindachner
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Parachondrostoma
''Parachondrostoma'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found mostly in Spain with one species entering France. There are currently four species in this genus.
Species
There are currently four recognized species in this genus:
* '' Parachondrostoma arr ...
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Pararhinichthys
The cheat minnow (''Pararhinichthys bowersi'') is a demersal, freshwater fish endemic to the United States, most commonly found in the Ohio River basin. It is the only species in the genus Pararhinichthys. Its taxonomic status is debatable and ...
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Pelasgus
In Greek mythology, Pelasgus ( grc, Πελασγός, ''Pelasgós'' means "ancient") was the eponymous ancestor of the Pelasgians, the mythical inhabitants of Greece who established the worship of the Dodonaean Zeus, Hephaestus, the Cabeiri, and ot ...
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Pelecus
''Pelecus cultratus'', commonly known as the ziege, sichel, sabre carp or sabrefish, is a cyprinid fish species from Eastern Europe and adjacent Asian regions, the only one in its genus, inhabiting the lower reaches of rivers and brackish waters ...
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Petroleuciscus
''Petroleuciscus'' is a genus of four species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It was usually included in ''Leuciscus'' until recently. This genus unites the Ponto-Caspian chubs and daces. Recent research has indicated that ''Petrole ...
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Phenacobius
''Phenacobius'', the suckermouth minnows, is a genus of cyprinid fishes endemic to the United States. Historically the suckermouth minnow was not found as far eastward as Ohio, now they seem to be a stable species living throughout the Midwest an ...
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Phoxinellus
''Phoxinellus'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in the Balkans
The Balkans ( ), also known as the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. The region tak ...
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Phoxinus
''Phoxinus'' is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Leuciscidae of order Cypriniformes, and the only members of the subfamily Phoxininae, or Eurasian minnows. The type species is ''Phoxinus phoxinus''. The other species in this genus are al ...
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Pimephales
''Pimephales'', commonly known as the bluntnose minnows (a term used locally to refer to ''Pimephales notatus'' specifically), is a genus of cyprinid fish found in North America. All of the four species are small fish, with ''P. notatus'' being t ...
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Plagopterus
The woundfin (''Plagopterus argentissimus'') is a species of minnow endemic to the Virgin River of the southwestern United States. It is the only species in the monotypic genus ''Plagopterus''.
Description
The woundfin is a small slender, silve ...
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Platygobio
The flathead chub (''Platygobio gracilis'') is a species of fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae. It is the only member of the monotypic genus ''Platygobio''.Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds. (2011)''Platygobio''.FishBase. It is native to North Americ ...
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Pogonichthys
The splittails are a genus ''Pogonichthys'' of cyprinid fish, consisting of two species native to western North America.
The common name is inspired by the distinctive appearance of the tail fin, in which the upper lobe is distinctly larger.
Of ...
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Protochondrostoma'' (South European nase)
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Pseudochondrostoma
''Pseudochondrostoma'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that occurs in the Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (),
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* french: Péninsule Ibérique
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Pseudophoxinus
''Pseudophoxinus'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Western Asia.
Species
There are currently 29 recognized species in this genus:
* '' Pseudophoxinus alii'' Küçük, 2007 (Pamphylian spring minnow)
* '' Pseudophoxinus ana ...
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Pteronotropis
''Pteronotropis'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemism, endemic to the United States.
Characteristics
The genus is characterized by a broad dark blue stripe along the side. The genus has large anal and dorsal fins, as well as a compressed body ...
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Ptychocheilus
Pikeminnows, formerly squawfish, are cyprinid fish of the genus ''Ptychocheilus'' consisting of four species native to western North America. Voracious predators, they are considered an "undesirable" species in many waters, largely due to the spe ...
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Relictus'' (relict dace)
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Rhinichthys
''Rhinichthys'', known as the riffle daces, is a genus of freshwater fish in the carp family (Cyprinidae) of the order Cypriniformes. The type species is ''Rhinichthys atratulus'', the blacknose dace. ''Rhinichthys'' species range throughout Nor ...
'' (riffle daces, loach minnows) (including ''Tiaroga'')
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Rhynchocypris'' (Eurasian minnows)
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Richardsonius
''Richardsonius'' is a genus of cyprinid fish consisting of two species native to western North America. Commonly known as redside shiners, that term is also used to refer to ''Richardsonius balteatus'' specifically.
The genus is named after n ...
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Rutilus
''Rutilus'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Eurasia. This genus is a widely distributed lineage of cyprinids and ranges from West Europe to East Siberia.
Species
In FishBase (2022), nine species are included in the genus:
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Sarmarutilus''
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Scardinius
''Scardinius'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae commonly called rudds. Locally, the name "rudd" without any further qualifiers is also used for individual species, particularly the common rudd (''S. erythrophthalmus''). The ...
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Semotilus
''Semotilus'' is the genus of creek chubs, ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. The term "creek chub" is sometimes used for individual species, particularly the common creek chub, ''S. atromaculatus''. The creek chub species of minnows can ...
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Siphateles
''Siphateles'' is a genus of fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae, native to the Western United States. They were formerly placed in the genus ''Gila (fish), Gila''.
Species
The species include:
*''Siphateles alvordensis'' Carl Leavitt Hubbs, ...
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Snyderichthys'' (spinedaces)
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Squalius
''Squalius'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Europe and Asia. Hybridization is not rare in the Cyprinidae, including this genus. '' S. alburnoides'' is known to be of ancient hybrid origin, with the paternal lineage deriving ...
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Stypodon'' (stumptooth minnow)
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Tampichthys
''Tampichthys'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemic to east–central Mexico. They are entirely restricted to the Pánuco River basin, except ''T. ipni'' which also occurs in some other Mexican rivers that drain into the Gulf of Mexico.
These ar ...
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Telestes''
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Tribolodon
''Tribolodon'' (Redfin dace) is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in marine and freshwater in Eastern Asia.
Species
There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Tribolodon brandtii'' ( Dybowski, 1872) (Pacific redfin)
* ''Tribolod ...
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Tropidophoxinellus
''Tropidophoxinellus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe ...
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Vimba
''Vimba'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in Europe and western Asia. There are currently four described species.
Species
* '' Vimba elongata'' (Valenciennes, 1844) (Bavarian vimba)
* '' Vimba melanops'' ( Heckel, 1837) (Macedonian v ...
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Yuriria
Yuriria, Guanajuato, Mexico,(), is one of 46 municipalities in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.
Geography
Yuriria is located in the "Bajío", or lowlands, of Guanajuato. It is bordered to the east by Salvatierra and Santiago Maravatío, to the ...
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Subfamily
Tincinae
Tincinae is a subfamily of freshwater ray-finned fish from the family Cyprinidae, it consists of the tench of Eurasia and the east Asian clod minnows.
Tinca tinca is a freshwater tincinae fish that is found in the Danube basin
Genera
There are ...
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Tanichthys
''Tanichthys'' is a genus of freshwater fish in the carp family ( Cyprinidae) of order Cypriniformes. They are native to rivers and streams in China and Vietnam. Until recently, the type species, ''T. albonubes,'' was the only one known. In 2 ...
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Tinca
Tinca ( hu, Tenke) is a commune in the south-central part of Bihor County, Crișana, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Belfir (), Gurbediu (), Girișu Negru (), Râpa () and Tinca.
Historic attestation
It was first mentioned as a village ...
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Subfamily
Squaliobarbinae
Squaliobarbinae is a small subfamily of the carp and minnow family, Cyprinidae, which consists of three monotypic genera which have their natural distributions in eastern Asia. Two species, the grass carp (''Ctenopharyngodon idella'') and the b ...
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Ctenopharyngodon'' (grass carp)
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Mylopharyngodon
''Mylopharyngodon'' is a genus of fish belongs to the family Cyprinidae, it contains two species: the living black carp
The black carp (''Mylopharyngodon piceus'') or Chinese black roach is a species of cyprinid freshwater fish and the sole ex ...
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Squaliobarbus
The barbel chub (''Squaliobarbus curriculus'') is a species of cyprinid fish found in China, North Korea, South Korea, eastern Russia, and Vietnam. It is the only member of its genus.
References
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Squaliobarbinae
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Subfamily
Xenocyprinae
Xenocyprinae, is a contentious subfamily of the family Cyprinidae, the carp and minnow family, originally from eastern Asia.
Genera
The 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' assigns the follow general to this subfamily:
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Distoechodon
''Distoechodon'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes that occur in East Asia, one species endemic to mainland China and the other in both mainland China and Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at t ...
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Hypophthalmichthys
''Hypophthalmichthys'' is a genus of large cyprinid fish consisting of three species. The name comes from Greek ὑπό, (''hypó'') "below"; ὀφθαλμός (''ophthalmós''), "eye"; ἰχθῦς (''ichthŷs''), "fish", thus "fish with eyes bel ...
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Plagiognathops''
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Pseudobrama
''Pseudobrama simoni'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to China, and the only species in its genus. It is a pseudobream species living in fresh and brackish water in the Yangtze
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest r ...
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Xenocypris
''Xenocypris'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia. There are currently seven species in this genus, one, ''X. yushensis'', being known only from fossils, and one, ''X. yunnanensis'', which is critically endangered or recently exti ...
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Incertae sedis
' () or ''problematica'' is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertainty ...
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Aaptosyax'' (giant salmon carp)
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Acanthalburnus'' (bleaks)
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Acanthogobio
''Acanthogobio guentheri'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to China. It is only found in the Yellow and Sinin Rivers, and is the only recognized species in its genus. It reaches up to a length of 20 cm.
Named in honor of the German-born ...
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Acapoeta''
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Albulichthys''
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Amblyrhynchichthys
''Amblyrhynchichthys'' is a small genus of cyprinid fish containing only two Southeast Asian species.
Species
* '' Amblyrhynchichthys micracanthus'' H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2004
* '' Amblyrhynchichthys truncatus'' (Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occup ...
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Ancherythroculter
''Ancherythroculter'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes that occur in eastern Asia in China and Vietnam. There are currently five recognized species in this genus, though the validity of ''A. lini'' is under some doubt.
Species
There are currently ...
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Aphyocypris
''Aphyocypris'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes consisting of eight species, all of which are restricted to East Asia.
Species
There are currently ten recognized species in this genus:
* ''Aphyocypris amnis'' T. Y. Liao, S. O. Kullander & H. D ...
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Araiocypris''
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Aspiorhynchus''
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Atrilinea
''Atrilinea'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes that contains only three species, all of which are endemic to China.
Species
* ''Atrilinea macrolepis
''Atrilinea macrolepis'' is a species of cyprinid
Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fis ...
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Barbichthys
The sucker barb (''Barbichthys laevis'') is a species of cyprinid found in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical ...
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Barbodes
''Barbodes'' is a genus of small to medium-sized cyprinid fish native to tropical Asia. The majority of the species are from Southeast Asia. Many species are threatened and some from the Philippines (Lake Lanao) are already extinct. A survey carr ...
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Barbopsis
The Somalian blind barb (''Barbopsis devecchi'') is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. It is the only member of the genus ''Barbopsis''. This troglobitic fish is found only in Somalia.
There are two other cavefish species in S ...
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Caecobarbus
''Caecobarbus geertsi'', the African blind barb or Congo blind barb (known as ''Nzonzi a mpofo'' in the local Kikongo language, meaning "blind barb"), is a species of cyprinid fish. This Threatened species, threatened cavefish is only known fro ...
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Caecocypris''
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Candidia
''Candidia'' is a genus of small cyprinid freshwater fish endemic to Taiwan.
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus.
* '' Candidia barbata'' (Regan
The family name Regan, along with its cognates O'Regan, O Regan, R ...
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Capoetobrama
''Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi'' is a cyprinid fish that is found in Central Asia, in a region shared by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекис ...
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Catlocarpio''
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Chagunius
''Chagunius'' is a genus of cyprinid fish containing three species which occur in South and Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is ...
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Chuanchia
''Chuanchia labiosa'' is a species of cyprinid fish that is only found in the upper reaches of the Yellow River basin in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau of China, where it mostly inhabits slow-flowing cold waters at altitudes above . It is the only m ...
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Coptostomabarbus
''Coptostomabarbus'' is a small genus of cyprinid fish containing only two African species.
Species
* '' Coptostomabarbus bellcrossi'' Poll, 1969
* '' Coptostomabarbus wittei'' L. R. David & Poll
Poll, polled, or polling may refer to:
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Cosmochilus
''Cosmochilus'' is genus of cyprinid fish found in East and Southeast Asia. There are currently four species in this genus.
Species
* '' Cosmochilus cardinalis'' X. L. Chu & T. R. Roberts, 1985
* '' Cosmochilus falcifer'' Regan
The family ...
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Cyclocheilichthys
''Cyclocheilichthys'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae containing approximately eight valid species. They are native to freshwater habitats in Southeast Asia and China. Two additional species are alternately placed in the g ...
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Cyprinion
''Cyprinion'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae.
Species
* '' Cyprinion acinaces'' Banister & M. A. Clarke, 1977
** '' Cyprinion acinaces acinaces'' Banister & M. A. Clarke, 1977
** '' Cyprinion acinaces hijazi'' Krupp, ...
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Diplocheilichthys''
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Discherodontus
''Discherodontus'' is a genus of small cyprinid fishes found in rivers and streams in Mainland Southeast Asia and Yunnan in China.
Species
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:Kottelat, M. (2013)The Fishes of the Inland Water ...
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Eirmotus
''Eirmotus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in Southeast Asia. There are currently four recognized species in this genus.
Species
* ''Eirmotus furvus'' Tan Heok Hui, H. H. Tan & Maurice Kottelat, Kottelat, 2008
* ''Eirmotus insignis' ...
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Elopichthys''
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Epalzeorhynchos
''Epalzeorhynchos'' is a small ray-finned fish genus of the family Cyprinidae. Its members are – like some other cyprinids – known as "freshwater sharks" or simply "sharks". They are, however, freshwater members of the Osteichthyes li ...
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Folifer''
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Gibelion'' (catla) (some authorities consider this species to belong in the genus ''Catla'')
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Gymnodanio''
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Gymnodiptychus
''Gymnodiptychus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in freshwater habitats in the highlands of China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.Kustareva, L.A., and A.M. Naseka (2015). Fish diversity in Kyrgyzstan: Species composition, fisheries and management ...
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Hampala
''Hampala'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae found in South-East Asia.
Species
* ''Hampala ampalong'' (Pieter Bleeker, Bleeker, 1852)
* ''Hampala bimaculata'' (Canna Maria Louise Popta, Popta, 1905)
* ''Hampala dispar'' Hug ...
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Hemiculterella
''Hemiculterella'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that occurs in eastern Asia
Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which s ...
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Hemigrammocypris'' (close to ''Aphyocypris''?)
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Herzensteinia''
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Hypselobarbus
''Hypselobarbus'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae endemic to India.
Species
There are currently 26 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Hypselobarbus basavarajai'' Arunachalam, Chinnaraja & Mayden, 2016 Arunachalam, M., Chinnaraja ...
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Hypsibarbus
''Hypsibarbus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in freshwater in Mainland Southeast Asia, including the Thai-Malay Peninsula.
Species
* '' Hypsibarbus antiquus'' Roberts & Jumnongthai, 1999 – prehistoric (fossil)
* '' Hypsibarbus ...
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Laocypris
''Laocypris hispida'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigeno ...
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Lepidopygopsis''
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Linichthys''
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Lobocheilos
:The noctuid moth genus ''Lobocheilos'', described by George Francis Hampson in 1891, has been renamed ''Latiphea''.
''Lobocheilos'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae native to Asia.
Species
There are currently 12 recognized species i ...
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* ''
Longiculter
''Longiculter siahi'' is a species of cyprinid fish found in Southeast Asia where it is found in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeas ...
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* ''
Luciobrama''
* ''
Luciocyprinus
''Luciocyprinus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in China and Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-ea ...
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* ''
Macrochirichthys'' (long pectoral-fin minnow)
* ''
Megarasbora''
* ''
Mekongina
''Mekongina'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in Southeast Asia and China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most popul ...
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* ''
Metzia
''Metzia'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in eastern Asia. The genus is named in honor of the American ichthyologist Charles William Metz of Stanford University.
Species
There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Metz ...
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* ''
Mystacoleucus
''Mystacoleucus'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes that are found in Southeast Asia. There are currently eight described species in this genus.
Species
* ''Mystacoleucus argenteus'' ( F. Day, 1888)
* ''Mystacoleucus atridorsalis'' Fowler, 1937
* ...
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* ''
Naziritor'' (Zhobi mahseers)
* ''
Neolissochilus
''Neolissochilus'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae native to freshwater habitats in Asia that are often grouped with the mahseers. The largest reach up to in length, but most species are much smaller.
Species
There are currently 28 ...
'' (''mahseers'')
* ''
Nipponocypris
''Nipponocypris'' is a genus of cyprinid fish containing three extant species, one endemic to Japan, one to South Korea while the third occurs in Japan, Korea and China. A fourth, extinct species is known from Middle Pleistocene-aged freshwater ...
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* ''
Ochetobius''
* ''
Onychostoma
''Onychostoma'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia.
Species
There are currently 23 recognized species in this genus:
* '' Onychostoma alticorpus'' ( Ōshima, 1920) (Taiwan ku fish)
* '' Onychostoma angustistomata'' ( P. W. Fang, 1 ...
''
* ''
Opsariichthys
''Opsariichthys'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in freshwater habitats in Mainland China (including Hainan), Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. There are currently 12 described species in the genus.
Species
There are 12 species, some with u ...
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* ''
Oreoleuciscus
''Oreoleuciscus'' is a genus of medium to large cyprinid freshwater fish which is only found in Mongolia and adjacent parts of Russia.
Species
There are currently four recognized species in this genus:
* ''Oreoleuciscus angusticephalus'' Boguts ...
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* ''
Osteobrama
''Osteobrama'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in southern Asia consisting of eight species. The name is derived from the Greek word ''osteon'', meaning "bone", and the Old French word ''breme'', a type of freshwater fish.
Species
*''Osteobra ...
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* ''
Oxygaster
''Oxygaster'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region ...
''
* ''
Oxygymnocypris
''Oxygymnocypris stewartii'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Tibet and occurs in the Yarlung Tsangpo River (=upper Brahmaputra) and its tributaries at altitudes above in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is the only species in its genus.
...
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* ''
Parachela''
* ''
Paracrossochilus
''Paracrossochilus'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes containing two species, both of which are endemic to Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Mariti ...
''
* ''
Parapsilorhynchus
''Parapsilorhynchus'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes endemic to India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the mo ...
''
* ''
Parasikukia''
* ''
Paraspinibarbus''
* ''
Parator
In ancient Rome, an ''apparitor'' (also spelled apparator in English, or shortened to paritor) was a civil servant whose salary was paid from the public treasury. The ''apparitores'' assisted the magistrates. There were four occupational gra ...
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* ''
Parazacco''
* ''
Percocypris
''Percocypris'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fishes found in large rivers and Fuxian Lake in the highlands of southern China and northern mainland southeast Asia. They are predators that mainly feed on smaller fish. They can reach up to ar ...
''
* ''
Phreatichthys
''Phreatichthys andruzzii'', a species of cyprinid fish, is the only species of the genus ''Phreatichthys'', and is endemic to Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl off ...
'' (Somalian cavefish)
* ''
Placogobio
''Placogobio'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemic to Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast ...
''
* ''
Platypharodon''
* ''
Pogobrama''
* ''
Poropuntius''
* ''
Probarbus
''Probarbus'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish found in Mainland Southeast Asia, especially the Mekong River
The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth longest r ...
''
* ''
Procypris
''Procypris'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in eastern Asia
Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shar ...
''
* ''
Prolabeo
''Prolabeo batesi'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guine ...
''
* ''
Prolabeops
''Prolabeops'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemic to Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is borde ...
''
* ''
Pseudaspius
''Pseudaspius leptocephalus'', the Redfin, is a species of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia where it occurs in the countries of Russia, Mongolia
Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a la ...
''
* ''
Ptychobarbus
''Ptychobarbus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in rivers, streams and lakes in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau of China, India, Nepal and Pakistan, extending into the highlands of Afghanistan. They reach up to in weight and about ...
''
* ''
Puntioplites
''Puntioplites'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that occurs in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern ...
''
* ''
Rasborichthys
''Rasborichthys helfrichii'' is a species of cyprinid fish found on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Southeast Asia. It is the only species in its genus.
References
*
Cyprinid fish of Asia
Freshwater fish of Sumatra
Freshwater fish ...
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* ''
Rohtee
''Rohtee ogilbii'', the Vatani rohtee, is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to the northern Western Ghats in southern India. It is the only species in its genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classific ...
'' (Vatani rohtee)
* ''
Rohteichthys''
* ''
Sanagia
''Sanagia velifera'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to the Sanaga River in Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in wes ...
''
* ''
Sawbwa
Chao-Pha (; Tai Ahom: 𑜋𑜧𑜨 𑜇𑜡, th, เจ้าฟ้า}, shn, ၸဝ်ႈၾႃႉ, translit=Jao3 Fa5 Jao3 Fa5, my, စော်ဘွား ''Sawbwa,'' ) was a royal title used by the hereditary rulers of the Tai peoples of ...
'' (Sawbwa barb)
* ''
Scaphiodonichthys
''Scaphiodonichthys'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia. There are currently three described species in this genus.
Species
* ''Scaphiodonichthys acanthopterus'' ( Fowler, 1934)
* ''Scaphiodonichthys burmanicus'' Vinciguerra, 1 ...
''
* ''
Scaphognathops
''Scaphognathops'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in Southeast Asia. Thai vernacular names are ''pla pak pian'' ( th, ปลาปากเปี่ยน), ''pla pian'' (ปลาเปี่ยน) or ''pla ta dam'' (ปลาตาดำ) ...
''
* ''
Scardinius
''Scardinius'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae commonly called rudds. Locally, the name "rudd" without any further qualifiers is also used for individual species, particularly the common rudd (''S. erythrophthalmus''). The ...
'' (rudds)
* ''
Schismatorhynchos
''Schismatorhynchos'' is an Asian genus of cyprinid freshwater fish found in India, Borneo and Sumatra. There are four species in this genus, although some authorities raise ''Nukta'' to full generic status as a monotypic genus.
Species
* '' S ...
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* ''
Schizocypris
''Schizocypris'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in southern and south-western Asia.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* '' Schizocypris altidorsalis'' Bianco
Bianco is a town and ''comune'' in the Provinc ...
'' (snowtrouts)
* ''
Schizopygopsis
''Schizopygopsis'' is a genus of cyprinid fish. Most species are endemic to river basins in the Himalayas and Qinghai–Tibet Plateau of China, but ''S. stoliczkai'' extends into the highlands of Afghanistan, Iran, northern India, Kyrgyzstan, Pak ...
'' (snowtrouts)
* ''
Semiplotus
''Semiplotus'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in south Asia.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* '' Semiplotus cirrhosus'' B. L. Chaudhuri, 1919
* '' Semiplotus manipurensis'' Vishwanath & Kosygin
A ...
''
* ''
Sikukia
''Sikukia'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia. There are currently four recognized species in this genus.
Its genus name ''Sikukia'', that refers to '' Khlong Sikuk'' ( th, คลองสีกุก), also known as ''Khwae Sik ...
''
* ''
Spinibarbus
''Spinibarbus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia
Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the ...
''
* ''
Thryssocypris''
* ''
Thynnichthys''
* ''
Tor
Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to:
Places
* Tor, Pallars, a village in Spain
* Tor, former name of Sloviansk, Ukraine, a city
* Mount Tor, Tasmania, Australia, an extinct volcano
* Tor Bay, Devon, England
* Tor River, Western New Guinea, Indonesia
Sc ...
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mahseer
Mahseer is the common name used for the genera ''Tor'', ''Neolissochilus'', '' Naziritor'' and '' Parator'' in the family Cyprinidae (carps). The name is, however, more often restricted to members of the genus ''Tor''.Sen TK, Jayaram KC, 1982. Th ...
s'')
* ''
Troglocyclocheilus''
* ''
Tropidophoxinellus
''Tropidophoxinellus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe ...
''
* ''
Typhlobarbus
''Typhlobarbus nudiventris'' is a Vulnerable species, vulnerable species of cyprinid fish endemism, endemic to Jianshui County in Yunnan, China.Noakes; Aldemaro; Zhao; and Zhou (2009). Chinese Fishes, p. 249. Springer Science & Business Media. Li ...
''
* ''
Typhlogarra
''Typhlogarra widdowsoni'' or ''Garra widdowsoni'', the Iraq blind barb or Haditha cave garra, is a species of cyprinid fish Endemism, endemic to underground water systems near Haditha in Iraq. Although traditionally placed in its own genus ''Ty ...
'' (Iraq blind barb)
* ''
Xenobarbus''
* ''
Xenocyprioides
''Xenocyprioides'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemism, endemic to China. There are two described species in this genus.
Species
* ''Xenocyprioides carinatus'' Chen Yi-Yu, Yi-Yu Chen & Huang Hong-Jin, H. J. Huang, 1985
* ''Xenocyprioides parvu ...
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* ''
Zacco''
With such a large and diverse family the taxonomy and phylogenies are always being worked on so alternative classifications are being created as new information is discovered, for example:
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Phylogeny
Subfamily Probarbinae
* '' Catlocarpio''
* ''Probarbus
''Probarbus'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish found in Mainland Southeast Asia, especially the Mekong River
The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth longest r ...
''
Subfamily Labeoninae
Labeoninae is a doubtfully distinct subfamily of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. They inhabit fresh water and the largest species richness is in the region around southern China, but there are also species else ...
* Tribe Parapsilorhynchini
** '' Diplocheilichthys''
** '' Neorohita''
** ''Parapsilorhynchus
''Parapsilorhynchus'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes endemic to India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the mo ...
''
** '' Longanalus''
** '' Protolabeo''
** '' Sinilabeo''
* Tribe Labeonini
Labeoninae is a doubtfully distinct subfamily of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. They inhabit fresh water and the largest species richness is in the region around southern China, but there are also species ...
** ''Bangana
''Bangana'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. It is distributed across much of southern and eastern Asia. Species live mainly in the flowing waters of tropical and subtropical rivers.Liu, K. and W. Zhou. (2009)' ...
''
** ''Cirrhinus
''Cirrhinus'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. Members of this genus are native to freshwater in South Asia, Indochina and southern China.Froese, R. and D. Pauly. (Eds.''Cirrhinus'' species list. FishBase. 2011. ...
'' (mud carps)
** '' Decourus''
** ''Gymnostomus
''Gymnostomus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region ...
''
** '' Incisilabeo''
** ''Labeo
''Labeo'' is a genus of carps in the family Cyprinidae. They are found in freshwater habitats in the tropics and subtropics of Africa and Asia.
It contains the typical labeos in the subfamily Labeoninae, which may not be a valid group, however, ...
'' (labeos)
** ''Speolabeo
''Speolabeo musaei'' is a species of cyprinid cavefish endemic to the Xe Bang Fai River in Laos. It is the only species in the genus ''Speolabeo'', but it was formerly included in ''Bangana
''Bangana'' is a genus of fish in the family Cypr ...
''
** ''Schismatorhynchos
''Schismatorhynchos'' is an Asian genus of cyprinid freshwater fish found in India, Borneo and Sumatra. There are four species in this genus, although some authorities raise ''Nukta'' to full generic status as a monotypic genus.
Species
* '' S ...
''
* Tribe Garrini
Labeoninae is a doubtfully distinct subfamily of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. They inhabit fresh water and the largest species richness is in the region around southern China, but there are also species elsew ...
** ''Garra
''Garra'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. These fish are one example of the "log suckers", sucker-mouthed barbs and other cyprinids commonly kept in aquaria to keep down algae. The doctor fish of Anatolia and the Middle East belo ...
''
** '' Paracrossocheilus''
** ''Tariqilabeo
''Tariqilabeo'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae native to Asia.Kottelat, M. (2016): On ''Gonorynchus'', ''Gonorhynchus'', ''Gonorinchus'', ''Gonorhinchus'' and ''Gonorrhynchus'', and some other names of labeonine fi ...
''
** ''Osteochilus
''Osteochilus'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes mainly found in Southeast Asia with a few extending into adjacent parts of China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List ...
'' clade
*** ''Barbichthys
The sucker barb (''Barbichthys laevis'') is a species of cyprinid found in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical ...
''
*** ''Crossocheilus
''Crossocheilus'', also known as the fringe barbs, flying foxes, or "algae eaters", is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is distributed in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in Asia. These fish occur in several types of hab ...
''
*** ''Epalzeorhynchos
''Epalzeorhynchos'' is a small ray-finned fish genus of the family Cyprinidae. Its members are – like some other cyprinids – known as "freshwater sharks" or simply "sharks". They are, however, freshwater members of the Osteichthyes li ...
''
*** ''Henicorhynchus
''Henicorhynchus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that occurs in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-easter ...
''
*** ''Labiobarbus
''Labiobarbus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in Southeast Asia. It currently contains nine described species.
Species
A total of 9 species have been assigned:
* '' Labiobarbus cyanopareja'' ( Heckel, 1843)
* '' Labiobarbus fasciatus'' ( Bl ...
''
*** ''Lobocheilos
:The noctuid moth genus ''Lobocheilos'', described by George Francis Hampson in 1891, has been renamed ''Latiphea''.
''Lobocheilos'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae native to Asia.
Species
There are currently 12 recognized species i ...
''
*** ''Osteochilus
''Osteochilus'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes mainly found in Southeast Asia with a few extending into adjacent parts of China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List ...
''
*** '' Thynnichthys''
** ''Semilabeo
''Semilabeo'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in rivers and streams in China and Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the easter ...
'' clade
*** '' Ageneiogarra''
*** '' Altigena''
*** ''Cophecheilus
''Cophecheilus'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae. These fish occur only in China.
Species
There are currently 2 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Cophecheilus bamen'' Zhu Yu (ichthyologist), Y. Zhu, Zhang E, E. ...
''
*** ''Discogobio
''Discogobio'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that are found in eastern Asia. So far the 16 species have only been identified from China (11 species) and Vietnam (5 species) wherein each species is Endemism, endemic to the country in which it is fou ...
''
*** ''Hongshuia
''Hongshuia'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that consists of four species, all Endemism, endemic to China.
Species
* ''Hongshuia banmo'' Zhang E, E. Zhang, Qiang Xie, X. Qiang & Lan Jia-Hu, J. H. Lan, 2008
* ''Hongshuia megalophthalmus'' (Chen, Ya ...
''
*** '' Linichthys''
*** ''Mekongina
''Mekongina'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in Southeast Asia and China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most popul ...
''
*** '' Paraqianlabeo''
*** '' Parasinilabeo''
*** ''Placocheilus
''Placocheilus caudofasciatus'' is a species of cyprinid native to Laos, Vietnam and China in eastern Asia
Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a ...
''
*** ''Prolixicheilus
''Prolixicheilus longisulcus'' is a species of fish in the family Cyprinidae, found in streams belonging to the Zuojiang River, a tributary of Pearl River in China. This species is the only member of its genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a ...
''
*** ''Pseudocrossocheilus
''Pseudocrossocheilus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigeno ...
''
*** ''Pseudogyrinocheilus
''Pseudogyrinocheilus prochilus'' is a species of fish in the family Cyprinidae, found in Yangtze River and its tributaries in China. This species is the only member of its genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biol ...
''
*** ''Ptychidio
''Ptychidio'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemism, endemic to China.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''Ptychidio jordani'' George S. Myers, G. S. Myers, 1930
* ''Ptychidio longibarbus'' Chen Yi-Yu, Yi-Yu Ch ...
''
*** '' Qianlabeo''
*** ''Rectoris
''Rectoris'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in China and Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Sout ...
''
*** ''Semilabeo
''Semilabeo'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in rivers and streams in China and Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the easter ...
''
*** ''Sinigarra
''Sinigarra napoense'' is a species of labeonin cyprinid fish known only from Guangxi Province, China. This species grows to a length of SL. This species is the only known member of its genus.
Etymology
The generic name is derived from th ...
''
*** ''Sinocrossocheilus
''Sinocrossocheilus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous ...
''
*** '' Stenorynchoacrum''
Subfamily Torinae
* '' Acapoeta''
* ''Arabibarbus
''Arabibarbus'' is a genus of Cyprinidae. They are medium-small to very large freshwater carps found in the Western Asia.Borkenhagen, K. (2014): A new genus and species of cyprinid fish (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae) from the Arabian Peninsula, an ...
''
* ''Barbopsis
The Somalian blind barb (''Barbopsis devecchi'') is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. It is the only member of the genus ''Barbopsis''. This troglobitic fish is found only in Somalia.
There are two other cavefish species in S ...
'' (Somalian blind barb)
* ''Carasobarbus
''Carasobarbus'', the himris, is a small genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae. Its species are found in rivers, streams, lakes and ponds in Western Asia and Northwest Africa. ''C. canis'' can reach in total length, but most other ...
''
* ''Hypselobarbus
''Hypselobarbus'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae endemic to India.
Species
There are currently 26 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Hypselobarbus basavarajai'' Arunachalam, Chinnaraja & Mayden, 2016 Arunachalam, M., Chinnaraja ...
''
* ''Labeobarbus
''Labeobarbus'' is a mid-sized ray-finned fish genus in the family Cyprinidae. Its species are widely distributed throughout eastern Africa and especially southern Africa, but also in Lake Tana in Ethiopia. A common name, in particular for th ...
'' (yellowfish)
* '' Lepidopygopsis''
* ''Mesopotamichthys
The binni (''Mesopotamichthys sharpeyi'') is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to the Tigris–Euphrates Basin in the Middle East. This fish mostly inhabits lakes and marshes, especially in densely vegetated places where it also lays its eggs, b ...
''
* '' Naziritor'' (Zhobi mahseers)
* ''Neolissochilus
''Neolissochilus'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae native to freshwater habitats in Asia that are often grouped with the mahseers. The largest reach up to in length, but most species are much smaller.
Species
There are currently 28 ...
'' (mahseer
Mahseer is the common name used for the genera ''Tor'', ''Neolissochilus'', '' Naziritor'' and '' Parator'' in the family Cyprinidae (carps). The name is, however, more often restricted to members of the genus ''Tor''.Sen TK, Jayaram KC, 1982. Th ...
s)
* ''Osteochilichthys
''Osteochilichthys'' is a small genus of cyprinid fishes. It is endemic to southern India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous ...
''
* '' Pterocapoeta''
* ''Sanagia
''Sanagia velifera'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to the Sanaga River in Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in wes ...
''
* ''Tor
Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to:
Places
* Tor, Pallars, a village in Spain
* Tor, former name of Sloviansk, Ukraine, a city
* Mount Tor, Tasmania, Australia, an extinct volcano
* Tor Bay, Devon, England
* Tor River, Western New Guinea, Indonesia
Sc ...
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Mahseer is the common name used for the genera ''Tor'', ''Neolissochilus'', '' Naziritor'' and '' Parator'' in the family Cyprinidae (carps). The name is, however, more often restricted to members of the genus ''Tor''.Sen TK, Jayaram KC, 1982. Th ...
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* '' Pterocapoeta''
Subfamily Smiliogastrinae
* ''Barbodes
''Barbodes'' is a genus of small to medium-sized cyprinid fish native to tropical Asia. The majority of the species are from Southeast Asia. Many species are threatened and some from the Philippines (Lake Lanao) are already extinct. A survey carr ...
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* ''Barboides
''Barboides'' is a genus of very small ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae from freshwater habitats in West Africa, West and Middle Africa.
Species
*''Barboides britzi'' Kevin W. Conway, Conway & Timo Moritz, Moritz, 2006
*''Barboides graci ...
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* ''Caecobarbus
''Caecobarbus geertsi'', the African blind barb or Congo blind barb (known as ''Nzonzi a mpofo'' in the local Kikongo language, meaning "blind barb"), is a species of cyprinid fish. This Threatened species, threatened cavefish is only known fro ...
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* ''Chagunius
''Chagunius'' is a genus of cyprinid fish containing three species which occur in South and Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is ...
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* ''Clypeobarbus
''Clypeobarbus'' is a genus of small cyprinid fishes native to Africa. Most species are restricted to the Congo River Basin, but ''C. pleuropholis'' is also found in the Chad Basin, while ''C. bellcrossi'' is from the Zambezi and ''C. hypsolepis ...
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* ''Coptostomabarbus
''Coptostomabarbus'' is a small genus of cyprinid fish containing only two African species.
Species
* '' Coptostomabarbus bellcrossi'' Poll, 1969
* '' Coptostomabarbus wittei'' L. R. David & Poll
Poll, polled, or polling may refer to:
Figur ...
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* ''Dawkinsia
''Dawkinsia'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes from freshwater in South India and Sri Lanka. It was split off from genus '' Puntius'' in 2012.
Etymology
''Dawkinsia'' is named after the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in recognition of h ...
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* '']Desmopuntius
''Desmopuntius'' is a genus of small freshwater cyprinids native to Southeast Asia. They were formerly included in '' Puntius''.
Etymology
The name ''Desmopuntius'' is derived from the Greek language δεσμψτης ("desmotes") meaning 'pris ...
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* '']Eechathalakenda
The Channa barb (''Eechathalakenda ophicephalus'') (formerly ''Puntius ophicephalus''), is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-large ...
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* ''Enteromius
''Enteromius'' is a genus of small to medium-sized cyprinid fish native to tropical Africa. Most species were placed in the genus ''Barbus
''Barbus'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. The type species of ''Barbus'' is ...
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* ''Haludaria
''Haludaria'' is a genus of cyprinids native to freshwater habitats in the Western Ghats of India. Originally the genus was named ''Dravidia'' Pethiyagoda, Meegaskumbura & Maduwage, 2012 which is preoccupied by the dipteran genus ''Dravidia'' L ...
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* ''Hampala
''Hampala'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae found in South-East Asia.
Species
* ''Hampala ampalong'' (Pieter Bleeker, Bleeker, 1852)
* ''Hampala bimaculata'' (Canna Maria Louise Popta, Popta, 1905)
* ''Hampala dispar'' Hug ...
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* ''Oliotius
The checker barb (''Oliotius oligolepis'')Kottelat, M. (2013)The Fishes of the Inland Waters of Southeast Asia: A Catalogue and Core Bibliography of the Fishes Known to Occur in Freshwaters, Mangroves and Estuaries. ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zool ...
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* '']Oreichthys
''Oreichthys'' is a genus of tropical Barb (fish), barbs found in Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Myanmar (Burma), northern Malay Peninsula, and the Mekong basin in Laos. They are found in ditches, ponds, streams (both highland and lowland) a ...
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* ''Osteobrama
''Osteobrama'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in southern Asia consisting of eight species. The name is derived from the Greek word ''osteon'', meaning "bone", and the Old French word ''breme'', a type of freshwater fish.
Species
*''Osteobra ...
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* ''Pethia
''Pethia'' is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae native to South Asia, East Asia (only Pethia stoliczkana recorded) and Mainland Southeast Asia. Some species are commonly seen in the aquarium trade. The name ''Pethia'' is d ...
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* '']Prolabeo
''Prolabeo batesi'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guine ...
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* ''Prolabeops
''Prolabeops'' is a genus of cyprinid fish endemic to Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is borde ...
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* ''Pseudobarbus
''Pseudobarbus'' is a ray-finned fish genus in the family Cyprinidae. The type species is Burchell's redfin (''P. burchelli''). The scientific name is derived from the Ancient Greek ''pseudes'' ("false") and the Latin word ''barbus'' ("beard", ...
'' (redfins)
* ''Puntigrus
''Puntigrus'' is a genus of cyprinids native to Southeast Asia.
Etymology
The name ''Puntigrus'' is derived from the first syllable of the cyprinid genus '' Puntius'' and "tigrus" (to allude to the Latin ''"tigris"'' meaning "tiger").
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* '']Puntius
''Puntius'' is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae native to South Asia and Mainland Southeast Asia, as well as Taiwan.
Many species formerly placed in ''Puntius'' have been moved to other genera such as ''Barbodes'', ''Daw ...
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* ''Rohtee
''Rohtee ogilbii'', the Vatani rohtee, is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to the northern Western Ghats in southern India. It is the only species in its genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classific ...
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* ''Sahyadria
''Sahyadria'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes native to India where they are endemic to rivers and streams in the Western Ghats. They were formerly included in '' Puntius''. The largest ''Sahyadria'' measure total length
Fish measurement is th ...
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* '' Striuntius'' [
* '' Systomus''
* '' Xenobarbus''
Subfamily ]Cyprininae
The Cyprininae are one of at least 11 subfamilies of cyprinid fish. It contains three genera in its strictest definition but many more are included depending on which authority is defining it, especially if the Labeobarbinae is not considered to ...
[incl. Barbinae
Barbinae are a subfamily of fish included in the family Cyprinidae. The taxonomy for this group has not been entirely worked out as some genera historically considered within it are still considered incertae sedis with respect to being a member ...
]
* Tribe Cyprinini
** '' Aaptosyax'' (giant salmon carp)
** ''Carassioides
''Carassioides'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that occurs in East and Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south ...
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** ''Carassius
''Carassius ''is a genus in the ray-finned fish family Cyprinidae. Most species in this genus are commonly known as crucian carps, though this term often specifically refers to '' C. carassius''. The most well known is the goldfish (''C. auratus ...
'' (Crucian carps and goldfish
The goldfish (''Carassius auratus'') is a freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. It is commonly kept as a pet in indoor aquariums, and is one of the most popular aquarium fish. Goldfish released into the wild have ...
)
** ''Cyprinus
''Cyprinus'' 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 othe ...
'' (typical carps)
** ''Luciocyprinus
''Luciocyprinus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in China and Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-ea ...
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** '' Paraspinibarbus''
** ''Parator
In ancient Rome, an ''apparitor'' (also spelled apparator in English, or shortened to paritor) was a civil servant whose salary was paid from the public treasury. The ''apparitores'' assisted the magistrates. There were four occupational gra ...
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** ''Procypris
''Procypris'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in eastern Asia
Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shar ...
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** '' Pseudosinocyclocheilus''
** '' Sinibarbus''
** ''Sinocyclocheilus
''Sinocyclocheilus'' is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae endemic to China, where only found in Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan.Ma, L.; and Y.-H. Zhao (2012). Cavefish of China. Pp. 107—125 in: White, W.B.; and D.C. Cuvier, editor ...
'' (golden-line fish)
** ''Typhlobarbus
''Typhlobarbus nudiventris'' is a Vulnerable species, vulnerable species of cyprinid fish endemism, endemic to Jianshui County in Yunnan, China.Noakes; Aldemaro; Zhao; and Zhou (2009). Chinese Fishes, p. 249. Springer Science & Business Media. Li ...
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* Tribe Rohteichthyini
** '' Albulichthys''
** ''Amblyrhynchichthys
''Amblyrhynchichthys'' is a small genus of cyprinid fish containing only two Southeast Asian species.
Species
* '' Amblyrhynchichthys micracanthus'' H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2004
* '' Amblyrhynchichthys truncatus'' (Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occup ...
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** ''Anematichthys
''Cyclocheilichthys'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae containing approximately eight valid species. They are native to freshwater habitats in Southeast Asia and China. Two additional species are alternately placed in the g ...
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** ''Balantiocheilos
''Balantiocheilos'' is a small genus of cyprinid fish from southeast Asia. It includes two species.
Species
*'' Balantiocheilos ambusticauda'' H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2007 (Burnt tail fish)
*'' Balantiocheilos melanopterus'' ( Bleeker, 1851) (Tr ...
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** ''Barbonymus
''Barbonymus'' is a ray-finned fish genus in the family Cyprinidae, containing some barb species. The genus was only established in 1999, with the tinfoil barb (''B. schwanenfeldii'') as type species; thus, these fish are sometimes collectively ...
'' (tinfoil barbs)
** ''Cosmochilus
''Cosmochilus'' is genus of cyprinid fish found in East and Southeast Asia. There are currently four species in this genus.
Species
* '' Cosmochilus cardinalis'' X. L. Chu & T. R. Roberts, 1985
* '' Cosmochilus falcifer'' Regan
The family ...
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** ''Cyclocheilichthys
''Cyclocheilichthys'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae containing approximately eight valid species. They are native to freshwater habitats in Southeast Asia and China. Two additional species are alternately placed in the g ...
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** '' Cyclocheilos''
** ''Discherodontus
''Discherodontus'' is a genus of small cyprinid fishes found in rivers and streams in Mainland Southeast Asia and Yunnan in China.
Species
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:Kottelat, M. (2013)The Fishes of the Inland Water ...
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** ''Eirmotus
''Eirmotus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in Southeast Asia. There are currently four recognized species in this genus.
Species
* ''Eirmotus furvus'' Tan Heok Hui, H. H. Tan & Maurice Kottelat, Kottelat, 2008
* ''Eirmotus insignis' ...
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** ''Hypsibarbus
''Hypsibarbus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in freshwater in Mainland Southeast Asia, including the Thai-Malay Peninsula.
Species
* '' Hypsibarbus antiquus'' Roberts & Jumnongthai, 1999 – prehistoric (fossil)
* '' Hypsibarbus ...
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** ''Kalimantania
''Kalimantania lawak'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Indonesia occurring on the islands of Borneo and Java
Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Oce ...
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** ''Laocypris
''Laocypris hispida'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigeno ...
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** ''Mystacoleucus
''Mystacoleucus'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes that are found in Southeast Asia. There are currently eight described species in this genus.
Species
* ''Mystacoleucus argenteus'' ( F. Day, 1888)
* ''Mystacoleucus atridorsalis'' Fowler, 1937
* ...
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** '' Parasikukia''
** '' Poropuntius''
** ''Puntioplites
''Puntioplites'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that occurs in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern ...
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** '' Rohteichthys''
** ''Sawbwa
Chao-Pha (; Tai Ahom: 𑜋𑜧𑜨 𑜇𑜡, th, เจ้าฟ้า}, shn, ၸဝ်ႈၾႃႉ, translit=Jao3 Fa5 Jao3 Fa5, my, စော်ဘွား ''Sawbwa,'' ) was a royal title used by the hereditary rulers of the Tai peoples of ...
'' (Sawbwa barb)
** ''Scaphognathops
''Scaphognathops'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in Southeast Asia. Thai vernacular names are ''pla pak pian'' ( th, ปลาปากเปี่ยน), ''pla pian'' (ปลาเปี่ยน) or ''pla ta dam'' (ปลาตาดำ) ...
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** ''Sikukia
''Sikukia'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia. There are currently four recognized species in this genus.
Its genus name ''Sikukia'', that refers to '' Khlong Sikuk'' ( th, คลองสีกุก), also known as ''Khwae Sik ...
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** '' Troglocyclocheilus''
* Tribe Acrossocheilini
** ''Acrossocheilus
''Acrossocheilus'' is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae, native to freshwater in China, Taiwan, Laos, and Vietnam. They are fairly small, no more than in standard length.
Species
There are currently 26 recognized species ...
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** '' Folifer''
** ''Onychostoma
''Onychostoma'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia.
Species
There are currently 23 recognized species in this genus:
* '' Onychostoma alticorpus'' ( Ōshima, 1920) (Taiwan ku fish)
* '' Onychostoma angustistomata'' ( P. W. Fang, 1 ...
''
* Tribe Spinibarbini
** ''Spinibarbus
''Spinibarbus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia
Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the ...
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** '' Spinibarbichthys''
* Tribe Schizothoracini
** '' Aspiorhynchus''
** ''Percocypris
''Percocypris'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fishes found in large rivers and Fuxian Lake in the highlands of southern China and northern mainland southeast Asia. They are predators that mainly feed on smaller fish. They can reach up to ar ...
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** ''Schizopyge
''Schizopyge'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish found in Pakistan and the northwestern part of India. ''Schizopyge'' is closely related to ''Schizothorax'' and some species have historically been moved between the two genera.
Species
There ...
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** ''Schizothorax
''Schizothorax'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in southern and western China, through northern South Asia (Himalaya) and Central Asia, to Iran, with a single species, ''S. prophylax'', in Turkey.Yang, J.; J.X. Yang; and X.Y. Chen (2012). A re ...
'' (snowtrouts)
* Tribe Schizopygopsini
** ''Chuanchia
''Chuanchia labiosa'' is a species of cyprinid fish that is only found in the upper reaches of the Yellow River basin in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau of China, where it mostly inhabits slow-flowing cold waters at altitudes above . It is the only m ...
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** ''Diptychus
''Diptychus'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish, consisting of two species found in Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau of China, India, Nepal and Pakistan, ranging west to the Tien Shan Mountains and Central Asia.Li, G.; Y. Tang; R. Zhang; and ...
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** ''Gymnocypris
''Gymnocypris'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae endemic to China.
Species
There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Gymnocypris chilianensis'' S. C. Li & S. Y. Chang, 1974
* ''Gymnocypris chui'' T. L. Tchang, T ...
''
** ''Gymnodiptychus
''Gymnodiptychus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in freshwater habitats in the highlands of China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.Kustareva, L.A., and A.M. Naseka (2015). Fish diversity in Kyrgyzstan: Species composition, fisheries and management ...
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** '' Oreinus''
** ''Oxygymnocypris
''Oxygymnocypris stewartii'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Tibet and occurs in the Yarlung Tsangpo River (=upper Brahmaputra) and its tributaries at altitudes above in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is the only species in its genus.
...
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** '' Platypharodon''
** ''Ptychobarbus
''Ptychobarbus'' is a genus of cyprinid fish that is found in rivers, streams and lakes in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau of China, India, Nepal and Pakistan, extending into the highlands of Afghanistan. They reach up to in weight and about ...
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** ''Schizopygopsis
''Schizopygopsis'' is a genus of cyprinid fish. Most species are endemic to river basins in the Himalayas and Qinghai–Tibet Plateau of China, but ''S. stoliczkai'' extends into the highlands of Afghanistan, Iran, northern India, Kyrgyzstan, Pak ...
'' (snowtrouts)
* Tribe Barbini
** ''Aulopyge
The Dalmatian barbelgudgeon (''Aulopyge huegelii'') is a European ray-finned fish species in the family (biology), family Cyprinidae. It is the only member of the monotypic genus ''Aulopyge''. The genus name is derived from the ancient Greek ''au ...
'' (Dalmatian barbelgudgeon)
** ''Barbus
''Barbus'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. The type species of ''Barbus'' is the common barbel, first described as ''Cyprinus barbus'' and now named ''Barbus barbus''. ''Barbus'' is the namesake genus of the subfamily B ...
'' (typical barbels and barbs)
** '' Hsianwenia''
** '' Caecocypris''
** ''Capoeta
''Capoeta'', also known as scrapers, is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Western Asia. The distribution extends from Turkey to the Levant, to Transcaucasia, Iraq, Turkmenistan , in Armenia,particularly in lake Sevan and northern ...
'' (khramulyas)
** ''Cyprinion
''Cyprinion'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae.
Species
* '' Cyprinion acinaces'' Banister & M. A. Clarke, 1977
** '' Cyprinion acinaces acinaces'' Banister & M. A. Clarke, 1977
** '' Cyprinion acinaces hijazi'' Krupp, ...
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** ''Kantaka
According to Buddhist legend, Kanthaka (in Pali and Sanskrit) (6th century BC, in Kapilvastu and Tilaurakot, Nepal) was a favourite white horse of length eighteen cubits that was a royal servant of Prince Siddhartha, who later became Gautam ...
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** ''Luciobarbus
''Luciobarbus'' is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae. Its members are found in fresh and brackish waters of southern Europe, northern Africa, the wider Near East, the Aral and Caspian Seas, and rivers associated with these. ...
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** ''Scaphiodonichthys
''Scaphiodonichthys'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia. There are currently three described species in this genus.
Species
* ''Scaphiodonichthys acanthopterus'' ( Fowler, 1934)
* ''Scaphiodonichthys burmanicus'' Vinciguerra, 1 ...
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** ''Schizocypris
''Schizocypris'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in southern and south-western Asia.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* '' Schizocypris altidorsalis'' Bianco
Bianco is a town and ''comune'' in the Provinc ...
'' (snowtrouts)
** ''Semiplotus
''Semiplotus'' is a genus of cyprinid fishes found in south Asia.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* '' Semiplotus cirrhosus'' B. L. Chaudhuri, 1919
* '' Semiplotus manipurensis'' Vishwanath & Kosygin
A ...
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Subfamily Danioninae
* Tribe Paedocypridini
** ''Paedocypris
''Paedocypris'' is a genus of tiny cyprinid fish found in swamps and streams on the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo, Sumatra and Bintan.
''Paedocypris progenetica'' has been claimed to be the one of smallest known species of fish in the world ...
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* Tribe Sundadanionini
** '' Fangfangia''
** '' Sundadanio''
* Tribe Rasborini
** ''Amblypharyngodon
The carplets (''Amblypharyngodon'') are a genus of fishes in the family Cyprinidae. They are up to in total length and inhabit a wide range of slow-moving or stagnant freshwater habitats in South and Mainland Southeast Asia.
Species
There are 5 ...
'' (carplets)
** ''Boraras
''Boraras'' is a small genus of Asian cyprinid fishes.
Species
* ''Boraras brigittae'' (Dieter Vogt, D. Vogt, 1978) (Chili rasbora, Mosquito rasbora)
* ''Boraras maculatus'' (Paul Georg Egmont Duncker, Duncker, 1904) (Dwarf rasbora)
* ''Borar ...
'' (rasboras)
** ''Brevibora
''Brevibora'' is a genus of cyprinid freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia. They are small, no more than in standard length, and restricted to acidic blackwater rivers, streams and peat swamp lakes in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Born ...
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** '' Horadandia''
** ''Kottelatia
''Kottelatia brittani'' is a species of cyprinid fish native to Sumatra and peninsular Malaysia
Peninsular Malaysia ( ms, Semenanjung Malaysia; Jawi: سمننجڠ مليسيا), or the States of Malaya ( ms, Negeri-negeri Tanah Melayu; Ja ...
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** ''Pectenocypris
''Pectenocypris'' is a genus of small fish in the family Cyprinidae endemic to freshwater habitats in Borneo and Sumatra in Indonesia.
Species
There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Pectenocypris balaena'' T. R. Roberts, 1 ...
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** ''Rasbora
''Rasbora'' is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae. They are native to freshwater habitats in South and akistan s_...
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