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Cyprinidae Rafinesque 1815
Authors/Creators
- 1. Escuela de Biología, Museo de Zoología / Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET) and Centro de
- 2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Rd # 13, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA joel. t. betts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6018 - 8995
- 3. Unidad de Gestión Técnica de Proyectos - Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales y de Cooperación Externa (ORICE / UGETEP),
- 4. Universidad Americana (UAM, Costado Noroeste Camino de Oriente, Managua, Nicaragua edgar. ecologica @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8148 - 3195
- 5. Department of Environment and Development, Zamorano Biodiversity Center. Zamorano University of Tegucigalpa, P. O. Box 93, Honduras evandenberghe @ zamorano. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7566 - 0415
- 6. Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Chicago, Illinois, United States of America delias @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4215 - 0384 cmcmahan @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2113 - 8554
Description
Family Cyprinidae Rafinesque 1815 (Fig. 2M). Carps, Barbs; Carpas, Kois
Description: Body variable, usually slightly elongate and robust; up to 250 cm, usually less than 100 cm, in length; barbels usually present; lips usually thin; plicae or papillae absent; mouth sometimes sucker-like; upper jaw bordered only by premaxilla (i.e., maxilla excluded from gape), usually protrusible; spinelike rays in dorsal fin in some taxa (Nelson et al. 2016, Froese & Pauly 2023). Distribution: Freshwater, very rarely in brackish water; naturally from North America (northern Canada to southern Mexico), Africa and Eurasia, introduced elsewhere (Nelson et al. 2016). One genus and one species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.
Notes
Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Rafinesque
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cyprinidae Rafinesque, 1815 sec. Angulo, Betts, González-Alemán, Castañeda, Berghe, Elías, Mcmahan & Matamoros, 2023
References
- Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (2023) FishBase. Available from: https: // fishbase. org (acccesed 18 February 2023)