Canadian Register of Marine Species - Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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(of Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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Descriptive notes

Taxonomy Adults uproot and destroy submerged aquatic vegetation and therefore may be detrimental to duck and native fish populations

Taxonomy Adults uproot and destroy submerged aquatic vegetation and therefore may be detrimental to duck and native fish populations [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154582 on 2025-07-17

Taxonomic edit history

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Nomenclature

original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Cyprinus alepidotus Bloch, 1784) Bloch, M. E. (1785). Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. Berlin. v. 1: i-viii + 1-136, Pls. 109-144. [Also a combined edition of two volumes, v. 1-4 in I, 5-9 in II. Also a French edition, Ichthyologie, ou Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des poissons, v. 4 published 1787.].
page(s): 118, Pl. 138 [details]

original description (of Cyprinus acuminatus Heckel & Kner, 1858) Heckel, J. J.; Kner, R. (1857). Die Süsswasserfische der Österreichischen Monarchie, mit Rücksicht auf die angränzenden Länder. Leipzig. i-xii + 1-388. [details]

original description (of Cyprinus chinensis Basilewsky, 1855) Basilewsky, S. (1855). Ichthyographia Chinae borealis. Nouveaux mémoires de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou. 10: 215-263, Pls. 1-9. [Published in 1855, written in 1852 (see cover). Plates cited in text do not agree with the actual plates.]. [details]

original description (of Cyprinus conirostris Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) Temminck, C. J.; Schlegel, H. (1846). Pisces. In: Siebold, P. F. de (ed.): Fauna Japonica, sive descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam ... suscepto annis 1823-1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] (A. Arnz et soc.). Parts 10-14: 173-269. [details]

original description (of Cyprinus coriaceus Lacepède, 1803) Lacepède, B.G.E. (1803). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome Cinquieme. 5(1-21): i-lxviii + 1-803 + index., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6335629
page(s): 489, 528 [details]

original description (of Cyprinus elatus Bonaparte, 1836) Bonaparte, C. L. (1836). Iconografia della fauna italica per le quattro classi degli animali vertebrati. Tomo III. Pesci. Roma. Fasc. 15-18, puntata 80-93, 10 pls.
page(s): fasc. 18, punt. 92, Pl. 108 (fig. 3) [details]

original description (of Cyprinus hungaricus Heckel, 1837) Heckel, J. J. (1836). Über einige neue, oder nicht gehörig unterschiedene Cyprinen, nebst einer systematischen Darstellung der europäischen Gattungen dieser Gruppe. Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte. v. 1 (no. 10): 219-234, Pls. 19-21. [details]

original description (of Cyprinus macrolepidotus Meidinger, 1794) Meidinger, C. von. (1785-1794). Icones piscium Austriae indigenorum, quos collegit vivisque coloribus espresos edidit C. Baro de Meidinger. Vienna. 5 vols., 22 unnumbered pages, 50 unnumbered pls. Unumbered pages, Pls. 1-50. [V. 1, 1785: 4 pp., 10 pls.; v. 2, 1786: 3 pp., 10 pls.; v. 3, 1788: 4 pp., 10 pls.; v. 4, 1790: 3 pp., 10 pls.; v. 5, 1794: 8 pp., 10 pls.].
page(s): xli, Pl. 40 [details]

original description (of Cyprinus melanotus Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) Temminck, C. J.; Schlegel, H. (1846). Pisces. In: Siebold, P. F. de (ed.): Fauna Japonica, sive descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam ... suscepto annis 1823-1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] (A. Arnz et soc.). Parts 10-14: 173-269. [details]

original description (of Cyprinus nordmannii Valenciennes, 1842) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1842). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome seizième. Livre dix-huitième. Les Cyprinoïdes. v. 16: i-xx + 1-472, Pls. 456-487. [details]

original description (of Cyprinus nudus Bloch, 1784) Bloch, M.E. (1784). M. Marcus Elieser Bloch's ..., ausübenden Arztes zu Berlin. Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands. Berlin. 3: i-viii + 1-234, Pls. 73-108.
page(s): 178 [details]

original description (of Cyprinus regina Bonaparte, 1836) Bonaparte, C. L. (1836). Iconografia della fauna italica per le quattro classi degli animali vertebrati. Tomo III. Pesci. Roma. Fasc. 15-18, puntata 80-93, 10 pls.
page(s): fasc. 18, punt. 92, Pl. 108 (fig. 1) [details]

original description (of Cyprinus regius Nau, 1791) Nau, B. S. (1791). Bemerkungen zu des Herrn Prof. Sanders Beyträge zur Naturgeschichte der Fische im Rhein. Der Naturforscher. 25: 24-34.
page(s): 29 [details]

original description (of Cyprinus rex Walbaum, 1792) Walbaum, J. J. (1792). Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars III. Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald]. Part 3: [i-viii] + 1-723, Pls. 1-3.
page(s): 24 [details]

original description (of Cyprinus rexcyprinorum Bloch, 1782) Bloch, M. E. (1782). M. Marcus Elieser Bloch's ..., ausübenden Arztes zu Berlin. Oekonomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands. 1(1-37): 1-128. Berlin.
page(s): 107, 193, Pl. 17 [details]

original description (of Cyprinus rondeletii Shaw, 1802) Shaw, G.; Nodder, F. P. (1789-1813). The Naturalist's Miscellany, or coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described from nature. London. 23 vols. unnumbered pages.
page(s): no page number, Pl. 556 [details]

original description (of Cyprinus specularis Lacepède, 1803) Lacepède, B.G.E. (1803). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome Cinquieme. 5(1-21): i-lxviii + 1-803 + index., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6335629
page(s): 489, 528 [details]

original description (of Cyprinus viridescens Lacepède, 1803) Lacepède, B.G.E. (1803). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome Cinquieme. 5(1-21): i-lxviii + 1-803 + index., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6335629
page(s): 492, 541, Pl. 17 (fig. 1) [details]

original description (of Cyprinus vittatus Valenciennes, 1842) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1842). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome seizième. Livre dix-huitième. Les Cyprinoïdes. v. 16: i-xx + 1-472, Pls. 456-487. [details]

original description (of Cyprinus carpio communis Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Carpio vulgaris Rapp, 1854) Rapp, W. L. von. (1854). Die Fische des Bodensees. Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg. v. 10 (no. 2): 137-175, Pls. 5-10. [details]

original description (of Cyprinus mahuensis Liu & Ding, 1982) Liu, C.-H.; Ding, S. (1982). Description of a new species of carp from Mahu, Sichuan. Journal of Sichuan University (Natural Science Edition). 1982 (no. 4): 71-74. [In Chinese with English summary.]. [details]

basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. BioInvasions Records. 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors

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context source (RAS) Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]

context source (Schelde) Maris, T., O. Beauchard, S. Van Damme, E. Van den Bergh, S. Wijnhoven & P. Meire. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. [Reference matrices and Ecotope areas Annex to the Evaluation methodology Scheldt estuary Study on “Ecotope areas and intactness index”. Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke. 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 43: 419-453. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554. [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From regional or thematic species database

Introduced species impact in Belgian part of the North Sea : Other impact - undefined or uncertain [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in Polish part of the Baltic Sea : Fisheries: deliberate translocations of fish or shellfish to establish or support fishery [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in Polish part of the Baltic Sea : Individual release: deliberate release by individuals [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal Uruguayan part of the South Atlantic Ocean (Marine Region) Individual release: deliberate release by individuals [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal Argentinean part of the South Atlantic Ocean (Marine Region) Individual release: deliberate release by individuals [details]

Unreviewed

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]

Definitions

Language	Name
Albanian	pendëkuqilakeçkrapuliqkrapi	[details]
Bulgarian	Див шаран	[details]
Danish	karpe	[details]
Dutch	karper	[details]
English	common carpcarp	[details]
French	carpe communecarpe	[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	сазанКарп обыкновенныйили обыкновенный карп	[details]
Slovenian	krap	[details]
Spanish	carpa comúncarpa	[details]
Swedish	karp	[details]
Turkish	sazan	[details]
Ukrainian	Короп звичайнийКороп європейськийЗвичайний сазан	[details]
Welsh	cerpyn	[details]