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Sign in to savethumb|1913 illustration of Cyprinus carpio, better known as the common carp thumb|Common carp in Lake Minnetonka, [[Minnesota]] The term carp (: carp) is a generic common name for numerous species of freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large clade of ray-finned fish mostly native to Eurasia. While carp are prized quarries and are valued (even commercially cultivated) as both food and ornamental fish in many parts of the Old World, they are considered trash fish and invasive pests in many parts of Africa, Australia and most of the United States.
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- Common carp
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- The original Chinese character for "carp" in seal script (top), Traditional (middle), and Simplified (bottom) characters
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- 鯉魚
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- 鲤鱼
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- "carp-fish"
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- lǐyú
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- léih-yùh
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- 鯉
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- koi
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16 sectionsContents
- Biology
- Species
- Recreational fishing
- Aquaculture
- Breeding
- As ornamental fish
- As food
- Gallery
- Common carp in culture
- In Chinese literature
- Jumping carp the Chinese folk tale
- In Japanese culture
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|1913 illustration of Cyprinus carpio, better known as the common carp thumb|Common carp in Lake Minnetonka, [[Minnesota]] The term carp (: carp) is a generic common name for numerous species of freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large clade of ray-finned fish mostly native to Eurasia. While carp are prized quarries and are valued (even commercially cultivated) as both food and ornamental fish in many parts of the Old World, they are considered trash fish and invasive pests in many parts of Africa, Australia and most of the United States.
==Biology== The Cypriniformes (family Cyprinidae) are traditionally grouped with the Characiformes, Siluriformes, and Gymnotiformes to create the superorder Ostariophysi, since these groups share some common features. These features include being found predominantly in fresh water and possessing Weberian ossicles, an anatomical structure derived from the first five anterior-most vertebrae, and their corresponding ribs and neural crests.