Cyprinoidei
| Cyprinoidei | |
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| Common carp Cyprinus carpio) | |
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| Pearl danio (Danio albolineatus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Suborder: | Cyprinoidei Fitzinger, 1832[1] |
Cyprinoidei is a suborder, or superfamily, of mostly freshwater ray-finned fishes within the large order Cypriniformes. Cyprinoidei was formerly a monotypic grouping only containing a single large family, the Cyprinidae but this has now been divided into a number of different families.[1]
Families
[edit]The following families are included within the Cyprinoidei:[2][3][1]
- Suborder Cyprinoidei Fitzinger, 1832
- Family Paedocyprididae Mayden & W.J. Chen, 2010 (tiny carps)
- Family Psilorhynchidae Hora, 1926 (mountain carps)
- Family Cyprinidae Rafinesque, 1815 (carps)
- Family Sundadanionidae Mayden & Chen, 2010 (tiny danios)
- Family Danionidae Bleeker, 1863 (danionids)
- Family Leptobarbidae Bleeker, 1864 (cigar barbs)
- Family Xenocyprididae Günther, 1868 (East Asian minnows or sharpbellies)
- Family Tincidae D. S. Jordan, 1878 (tenches)
- Family Acheilognathidae Bleeker, 1863 (bitterlings)
- Family Gobionidae Bleeker, 1863 (freshwater gudgeons)
- Family Tanichthyidae Mayden & Chen, 2010 (mountain minnows)
- Family Leuciscidae Bonaparte, 1835 (minnows)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Thomas J. Near; Christine E. Thacker. "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65 (1): 3–302. doi:10.3374/014.065.0101.
- ^ "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.