Published January 31, 2025 | Version v1

Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus 1758

Description

Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758

Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758: 320. Type locality: Europe.

REFERENCES FOR TAJIKISTAN: Cyprinus carpio — Berg (1905: 48): Syr Darya; Berg (1949: 835): Amu Darya up to Panj, Zeravshan, Syr Darya; Shaposhnikova (1950: map): flat zone and lower part of foothill zone of Amu Darya basin; Rasulov and Karimov (2014: 39): Kairakkum reservoir; Afanasyev et al. (2020: 368): Syr Darya including Kairakkum reservoir. Cyprinus carpio carpio — Nikolskiy (1938: 148): widespread in flat parts of Tajikistan.

DISTRIBUTION IN TAJIKISTAN: Kairakkum reservoir, lower reaches of Vakhsh River with oxbows of Tigrovaya Balka Reserve, and farm ponds in the flat parts of Tajikistan.

CONSERVATION STATUS IN TAJIKISTAN: Not known; least concern (sensu IUCN; Freyhof and Kottelat, 2008a).

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: FMNH: 151149, in 2003–2018 specimens were caught (not preserved) in floodplain lakes and the Vakhsh River bed.

COMMENTS: In addition to the native populations, it was probably introduced from other parts within its native range as an object of aquaculture.

Notes

Published as part of Artaev, Oleg, Thoni, Ryan, Mirzoev, Nuriddin & Levin, Boris, 2025, Ichthyofauna of Tajikistan: Diversity and Changes over the Past Century, pp. 1-56 in American Museum Novitates 2025 (4032) on page 13, DOI: 10.1206/4032.1, http://zenodo.org/record/20514623

Files

Files (1.5 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:f1afe5188aa47005c52c9e6319b47d76
1.5 kB Download

System files (8.6 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:310176dac8bba952f793c84a6118ff20
8.6 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cypriniformes
Family
Cyprinidae
Genus
Cyprinus
Species
carpio
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Artaev, Thoni, Mirzoev & Levin, 2025

References

  • Berg, L. S. 1905. Die Fische von Turkestan. Saint Petersburg: print. of Isidor Goldberg. [in Russian]
  • Berg, L. S. 1949. Freshwater fish of the USSR and neighboring countries (3 vols). Moscow-Leningrad: Izdatelstvo Akademii nauk SSSR. [in Russian]
  • Afanasyev, S. A., A. M. Roman, V. L. Dolinskii, H. N. Karimov, and I. K. Erhashboev. 2020. Impact of designed Quairokkum Hydropower Plant reconstruction on the Syr Darya River ichthyofauna. Zoodiversity 54 (5): 363-374.
  • Freyhof, J., and M. Kottelat. 2008 a. Cyprinus carpio. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. Internet resource (https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T6181A12559362.en), accessed January 19, 2024.