Carassius auratus
Description
Carassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758)
[I]—Goldfish
Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinus auratus Linnaeus, 1758: 322 [China; Japanese rivers; no types known].— Afghanistan synonyms: None.—Revisions: None.—Illustration: Guo (2021: 472, fig.).
Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by Moravec and Amin (1978); confirmed by Coad (1980; 1981: 9; 2014: 318).—Afghanistan materials: CMN.
Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Kabul River basin, Sistan, Pishin Lora drainage, Amu Darya drainage.—General distribution: East Asia: China and Japan; introduced widely elsewhere; many cultivated goldfish varieties.—Habitat: This species inhabits rivers, lakes, reservoirs, ponds and ditches with stagnant or slow-flowing water. It occurs in eutrophic fresh and brackish waters, well vegetated ponds and canals. Freshwater.
Economic importance. Valuable for the aquarium trade.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Carassius
- Species
- auratus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Çiçek, Fricke, Eagderi, Sungur, Coad & Hamdard, 2023
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae. Vol. 1. Ed. X. [Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, ii + 824 pp.
- Guo, Y. - S. (2021) Colored atlas of fishes of Sichuan. Vol. I. Sciencepress, China. China Scientific Book Services, Beijing, 475 pp.
- Moravec, F. & Amin, A. (1978) Some helminth parasites excluding Monogenea from fishes of Afghanistan. Acta Sci Nat Brun, 12, 1 - 45.