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Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus 1758
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- 1. " Grigore Antipa " National Museum of Natural History, Kiseleff St. No 1, 011341 Bucharest 1, Romania alexandru _ iftime @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8766 - 6256
- 2. " Grigore Antipa " National Museum of Natural History, Kiseleff St. No 1, 011341 Bucharest 1, Romania alexandru _ iftime @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8766 - 6256 & Independent researcher, Gării st. no. 6, bl. 3, sc. A, ap. 4, 820157 Tulcea, Romania https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0379 - 7740 & " Grigore Antipa " National Museum of Natural History, Kiseleff St. No 1, 011341 Bucharest 1, Romania alexandru _ iftime @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8766 - 6256
Description
Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758
A native, widespread freshwater species of the lowland and lower hills, living in slow-flowing or stagnant water; abundantly supplemented by cultivated stocks (Bănărescu 1964; Manea 1985; Oțel 2007; Cocan & MireȘan 2018; Polyák et al. 2022; Nagy et al. 2023; Năstase & Năvodaru 2023).
The koi, an ornamental breed selected in Japan, is worth mentioning as it is thought to originate from the Asian species Cyprinus rubrofuscus Lacépède, 1803 (Kottelat & Freyhof 2007). There are no precise data upon the introduction time, origin and distribution of koi in Romania; it is found in ornamental urban waterbodies (e.g. in Bucharest —A. Iftime obs.) as well as in some fishponds. While C. rubrofuscus is widely accepted as distinct from C. carpio (Kottelat & Freyhof 2007; Fricke et al. 2025; Froese & Pauly 2025), it seems to be very close to C. carpio; various aspects, including the overall genetic structure of C. carpio s. l.; (Xu et al. 2014; Tsipas et al. 2017; Xu et al. 2019; Zhu et al. 2023, Nielsen et al. 2010; Kuts et al. 2021) and the mix-up of domesticated koi, at least some strains thereof being admixed with European carps (de Kock & Gomelsky 2015), suggest its status as a valid species should be revised (as suggested by Zhu et al. 2023).
Notes
Published as part of Iftime, Alexandru & Oţel, Vasile, 2025, An annotated systematical checklist of the Romanian ichthyofauna, pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5654 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5654.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15822021
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- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5654.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Cyprinus
- Species
- carpio
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Iftime & Oţel, 2025
References
- Banarescu, P. (1964) Fauna Republicii Populare Romine. Vol. XIII. Pisces-Osteichthyes. Ed. Acad. RPR, Bucharest, 959 pp. [in Romanian]
- Manea, G. I. (1985) Aclimatizarea de noi peSti Si alte organisme acvatice. Ceres, BucureSti, 160 pp. [in Romanian]
- Cocan, D. & MireSan, V. (2018) Ihtiologie (manual didactic). Vol. I. Sistematica Si morfologia peStilor. Ed. Colorama, Cluj-Napoca, 559 pp. [in Romanian]
- Polyak, L., Olajos, P., Kovacs, Z., Muller, Z. & Kiss, B. (2022) Research on fish communities in the Hungarian and Romanian part of the upper Tisa catchment area. Muzeul Judetean Satu Mare, Studii Si Comunicari, Seria Stiintele Naturii, 16, 85-100.
- Nagy, A. A., Eros, N., Imecs, I., Bone, G., Fulop, A. & Pap, P. L. (2023) Distribution and diversity of fishes and lampreys in Transylvania (Romania): a complete survey and suggestions for new protected areas. ZooKeys, 1166, 351-373. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1166.102854
- Nastase, A. & Navodaru, I. (2023) Dynamics of freshwater fish fauna and stocks in the DanubeDelta, Romania. Scientific Annals of the Danube Delta Institute, 28, 149-168. https://doi.org/10.7427/DDI.28.14
- Kottelat, M. & Freyhof, J. (2007) Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Publications Kottelat, Cornol and Freyhof, Berlin, 646 pp.
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds.) (2025) Eschmeyer's Catalog Of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Available from: http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp (accessed 1 April 2025)
- Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (Eds.) (2025) FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. Version 04 2025. Available from: https://www.fishbase.org/ (accessed 11 June 2025)
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- Tsipas, G., Tsiamis, G., Tsipas, N. & Vidalis, K. (2017) Phylogenetic relationships of Greek and Eurasian-Japanese Common Carp: The origin of Cyprinus carpio from Western Greece. Annals of Aquaculture and Research, 4 (2), 1037.
- Xu, J., Jiang, Y., Zhao, Z., Zhang, H., Peng, W., Feng, J., Dong, C., Chen, B., Tai, R. & Xu, P. (2019) Patterns of geographical and potential adaptive divergence in the genome of the Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio). Frontiers in Genetics, 10, 660. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2019.00660
- Nielsen, H. M., Odegard, J., Olesen, I., Gjerde, B., Ardo, L., Jeney, G. & Jeney, Z. (2010) Genetic analysis of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) strains I: Genetic parameters and heterosis for growth traits and survival. Aquaculture, 304, 14-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2010.03.016
- Kuts, U. S., Tarasjuk, S. I., Hrytsyniak, I. I., Zaloilo, O. V. & Kurynenko, H. A. (2021) A comparative analysis of Amur carp (Cyprinus rubrofuscus) produced from native and cryopreserved sperm using microsatellite loci. AACL Bioflux, 14 (3), 1396-1405.
- de Kock, S. & Gomelsky, B. (2015) Japanese Ornamental Koi Carp: Origin, Variation and Genetics. In: Pietsch, C. & Hirsch, P. (Eds.), Biology and Ecology of Carp. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, pp. 27-53. https://doi.org/10.1201/b18547