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Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 154582

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Cypriniformes (Order) > Cyprinidae (Family) > Cyprinus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Cyprinus Linnaeus, 1758
Parent Cyprinus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Cyprinus carpio var. gibbosus Kessler, 1856 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian krapi  [details]
Albanian krapuliq  [details]
Albanian lakeç  [details]
Albanian pendëkuqi  [details]
Bulgarian Див шаран  [details]
Danish karpe  [details]
Dutch karper  [details]
English carp  [details]
English common carp  [details]
French carpe  [details]
German Karpfen  [details]
Hebrew קרפיון מצוי  [details]
Italian carpa  [details]
Lithuanian karpis  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Κυπρίνος  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål karpe  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk karpe  [details]
Polish karp  [details]
Romanian crap  [details]
Russian или обыкновенный карп  [details]
Russian Карп обыкновенный  [details]
Russian сазан  [details]
Slovenian krap  [details]
Spanish carpa  [details]
Swedish karp  [details]
Turkish sazan  [details]
Ukrainian Звичайний сазан  [details]
Ukrainian Короп європейський  [details]
Ukrainian Короп звичайний  [details]
Welsh cerpyn  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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 Subspecies Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758

Subspecies Cyprinus carpio anatolicus Hanko, 1924 accepted as Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Cyprinus carpio aralensis Spiczakow, 1935 accepted as Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Cyprinus carpio brevicirri Misik, 1958 accepted as Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Cyprinus carpio caspicus Walbaum, 1792 accepted as Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Cyprinus carpio communis Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Cyprinus carpio elongatus Walecki, 1863 accepted as Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Cyprinus carpio fluviatilis Pravdin, 1945 accepted as Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Cyprinus carpio lacustris Fitzinger, 1832 accepted as Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Cyprinus carpio longicirri Misik, 1958 accepted as Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Cyprinus carpio monstrosus Walecki, 1863 accepted as Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Cyprinus carpio oblongus Antipa, 1909 accepted as Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Cyprinus carpio specularis Lacepède, 1803 accepted as Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758
Variety Cyprinus carpio var. gibbosus Kessler, 1856 accepted as Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Baltic sea [details]
Bath [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Black Sea [details]
British Columbia [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia [details]
Doel [details]
Europe [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Westerschelde [details]
Zeeschelde [details]
Host of  Ergasilus briani Markevich, 1933 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus sieboldi von Nordmann, 1832 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Neoergasilus japonicus (Harada, 1930) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Paraergasilus longidigitus Yin, 1954 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Argulus foliaceus (Linnaeus, 1758) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus orientalis Gusev, 1951 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus caeruleus Wilson C.B., 1911 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaea carassii Tidd, 1933 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaea oryzophila Monod, 1932 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaea polymorpha Yü, 1938 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Neoergasilus longispinosus Yin, 1956 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Paraergasilus brividigitus Yin, 1954 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Paraergasilus rylovi Markevich, 1937 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Argulus indicus Weber, 1892 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus peregrinus Heller, 1865 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaea cyprinacea Linnaeus, 1758 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Sinergasilus undulatus (Markevich, 1940) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus ludhianata Battish, Brar, Bhalla & Kochar, 1997 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaea cyprinacea elegans Hu, 1948 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus dentatus Heegaard, 1962 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life (90 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1203 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Cultured Aquatic species fact sheets
To GenBank (180257 nucleotides; 1937 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Introduction: This species has been introduced or released in Dutch waters. [details]

Taxonomy: Adults uproot and destroy submerged aquatic vegetation and therefore may be detrimental to duck and native fish populations [details]
Images 
Cyprinus carpio
Cyprinus carpio
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Cyprinus carpio
Cyprinus carpio
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Cyprinus carpio
Cyprinus carpio
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Cyprinus carpio
Cyprinus carpio
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Cyprinus carpio
Cyprinus carpio
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Cyprinus carpio
Cyprinus carpio
added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154582
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-04-19 07:59:47Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154582 on 2013-05-21
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