Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Afrikaans:
graskarp
Common Names in Albanian:
Amuri I bardhe
Common Names in Bulgarian:
Byal amur
Common Names in Cantonese:
Waan ue
Common Names in Chinese:
Waan ue
Common Names in Czech:
Amur bílý, Bílý amur
Common Names in Danish:
Graeskarpe, Græskarpe
Common Names in Dutch:
Chinese graskarper, Graskarpen, Graskarper
Common Names in English:
Gardd carp, Grass carp, Grass carp(=White amur), Pa kin gnia, silver orfe, White amur
Common Names in Farsi:
Amoor, آمور, سفيد پرورشي, كپور علفخوار
Common Names in Finnish:
Ruohokarppi
Common Names in French:
Amour blanc, Carpe amour, Carpe de roseau, Carpe herbivore, Carpe herbivore(=chinoise)
Common Names in German:
Amurkarpfen, Graskarpfen
Common Names in Greek:
Chortofagos Kyprinos, Χορτοφάγος κυπρίνος
Common Names in Greek, Modern (1453):
Chortofagos Kyprinos, Χορτοφάγος Κυπρίνος
Common Names in Italian:
Amur, Carpa erbivora
Common Names in Japanese:
Sôgyo, ソウギョ
Common Names in Kannada:
Hullu, Hullugende
Common Names in Khmer:
Trey srokchen
Common Names in Lao:
Pa kin gnia
Common Names in Laotian:
Pa kin gnia
Common Names in Malay:
Kap makan rumput, Kap rumput, Tonggan, Tongsan
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
草魚, 草鱼, 鯇, 鲩
Common Names in Norwegian:
Graskarpe
Common Names in Persian:
Amoor
Common Names in Polish:
Amur bialy, Crap-de-iarba
Common Names in Portuguese:
Carpa do limo, Carpa-do-limo
Common Names in Romanian:
Cosas
Common Names in Rumanian:
Cosas, Crap alb chinezese, Crap de iarba
Common Names in Russian:
Belyi Amur
Common Names in Slovak:
Amur biely
Common Names in Spanish:
Carpa china, Carpa forrajera, carpa herbÃvora, carpa herbívora, Sogyo
Common Names in Swedish:
Gräskarp
Common Names in Thai:
Pla chao hea, Pla chao heu, Pla kin ya, Pla van hea, Pla van heu, ปลากินหญ้า, ปลาหวันฮื้อ, ปลาเฉาฮื้อ
Common Names in Vietnamese:
Cá châm Treng, Cá ch‚m Treng, Cá Tr?m c?, Cá Trắm cỏ
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Class:
Actinopterygii
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
()
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
()
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
()
- Order:
Cypriniformes
()
- Family:
Cyprinidae
()
- Subfamily:
Leuciscinae
()
- Genus:
Ctenopharyngodon
()
- Steindachner, 1866
- Specific name:
idellus
- Scientific name: - Ctenopharyngodon idellus
- Specific name:
idellus
- Genus:
Ctenopharyngodon
(
- Subfamily:
Leuciscinae
(
- Family:
Cyprinidae
(
- Order:
Cypriniformes
(
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Class:
Actinopterygii
(
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Ctenopharingodon idella (Valenciennes, 1844) • Ctenopharyngodon idella • Ctenopharyngodon idella (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1844) • Ctenopharyngodon idella (Valenciennes, 1844) • Ctenopharyngodon idellus • Leuciscus idella • Leuciscus idella Valenciennes, 1844
Similar Species
Members of the genus Ctenopharyngodon
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:
C. idella (Grass Carp(=White Amur)) · C. idellus (Grass Carp(=White Amur))
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Further Reading
- A catalog of the fishes of Formosa. By David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh, Board of trustees of the Carnegie institute, 1909. url p. 169.
- A catalog of the fishes of the island of Formosa, or Taiwan: based on the collections of Dr. Hans Sauter / by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1907?] url p. 169.
- Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 229, p. 314.
- Asiatic herpetological research. 8 1999 Berkeley, Calif.: Asiatic Herpetological Research Society; c1990- url p. 84.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 34, p. 600.
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 10, p. 187, p. 25, p. 26, p. 289, p. 39, p. 50, p. 51.
- Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 125, p. 128, p. 129.
- Catalogue of the fishes in the. .. Museum / by A. Günther 1868. url p. 261.
- Commercial fisheries review. [Washington]: National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] url p. 100, p. 70.
- Current bibliography for aquatic sciences and fisheries. London, Taylor & Francis ltd. url p. 21, p. 375, p. 595, p. 759.
- Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 152, p. 437.
- Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 894.
- General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. url p. 25.
- IUCN Directory of South Asian Protected Areas IUCN url p. 107, p. 138, p. 284.
- Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. 4 1906-1911 Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901-1936. url p. 169, p. 421.
- Non-native fishes inhabiting the streams and lakes of Illinois / Champaign, Ill.: Illinois Natural History Survey, [1996] url p. 41, p. 46.
- Oceanus. Woods Hole, Mass., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution url p. 23, p. 24, p. 30.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 25 1903 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 322, p. 978.
- Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 339, p. 340.
- The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L. F. de Beaufort Leiden, E. J. Brill ltd., 1911- url p. 111, p. 430.
- The fresh-water fishes of China / by John Treadwell Nichols; with 143 figures in the text, 10 colored plates, and 1 map. 1943 New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1943. url p. 13, p. 285, p. 293.
- The fresh-water fishes of North Borneo [by] Robert F. Inger and Chin Phui Kong. 45 1962 Chicago, Chicago Natural History Museum, 1962. url fig. 116 , fig. 118 , p. 250, p. 252, p. 264, p. 7.
- The lipids, their chemistry and biochemistry. New York, Interscience Publishers, 1951-57. url p. 907.
- To the snows of Tibet through China / London: Longmans, Green, 1892. url p. 247.
- World directory of hydrobiological and fisheries institutions. Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1963. url p. 179.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 125200
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4462689
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3994720
