Cyprinidae
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The Cyprinidae are a faimily o freshwatter fishes. A memmer o this family is cried a cyprinid. Cyprinids include cairps, the true minnons, an thair relatives (for exemple, the barbs an barbels). The Cyprinidae is for ordinar cried the cairp faimily or minnon faimily.
| Cyprinidae | |
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| The cairp, Cyprinus carpio | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Superfaimily: | Cyprinoidea |
| Faimily: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfaimilies | |
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Cyprinidae is the mucklest kent fish faimily an the mucklest vertebrate faimily in general, wi aboot 3,000 livin an extinct species in aboot 370 genera.[1][2] The faimily belangs tae the ostariophysian order Cypriniformes, that the cyprinids mak mair nor twa-thirds o the genera an species.[2][1][3] The faimily name is derived frae the Auncient Greek kyprînos (κυπρῖνος, "cairp").
References eedit
- ↑ a b Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2015). "Cyprinidae" in FishBase. July 2015 version.
- ↑ a b Eschmeyer, W.N., Fong, J.D. (2015) Species by family/subfamily in the Catalog of Fishes, California Academy of Sciences (retrieved 2 July 2015)
- ↑ Nelson, Joseph (2006). Fishes of the World. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-25031-7.
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