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Cyprinids
Cyprinidae
The Cyprinidae are the family of freshwater fishes, collectively called cyprinids, that includes the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives (for example, the barbs and barbels). Also commonly called the "carp family", or "minnow family", Cyprinidae is the largest known fish family and the largest vertebrate animal family in general, with about 3,000 living and extinct species in about 370 genera. The family belongs to the ostariophysian order Cypriniformes, of whose genera and species the...
12 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 1,770 known species
Typical Carps
subfamilyCyprininae
Cape Carps
subfamilySmiliogastrinae
Barbs
subfamilyBarbinae
Labeonines
subfamilyLabeoninae
East Asian Barbs
subfamilyAcrossocheilinae
Mahseers, Yellowfishes and Allies
subfamilyTorinae
Spine Barbs
subfamilySpinibarbinae
Snow Barbels
subfamilySchizothoracinae
Mountain Barbels
subfamilySchizopygopsinae
Primitive Cyprinids
subfamilyProbarbinae
Evarra
genusEvarra
Stypodon
genusStypodon
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49609.