Cyprininae

Subfamily of fishes

Cyprininae

Goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Cypriniformes
Family:  | Cyprinidae
Subfamily:  | Cyprininae
Rafinesque, 1815
Genera

* Arabibarbus
* Barboides
* Barbonymus
* Capoeta
* Carassioides
* Carassius
* Cyprinus
* Eechathalakenda
* Gymnocypris
* Labeobarbus
* Paraqianlabeo

The Cyprininae are one of at least 11 subfamilies of cyprinid fish. It contains three genera in its strictest definition but many more are included depending on which authority is defining it, especially if the Labeobarbinae is not considered to be a valid grouping.

## Recognized genera[edit]

Arabibarbus grypus (Arabibarbus) Barbonymus schwanenfeldii (Barbonymus) Capoeta capoeta (Capoeta) Carassius gibelio (Carassius) Cyprinus carpio (Cyprinus) Gymnocypris przewalskii (Gymnocypris) Labeobarbus nedgia (Labeobarbus)

* Arabibarbus (3 species)
* Barboides (2 species)
* Barbonymus (tinfoil barbs) (10 species)
* Capoeta (35 species)
* Carassioides (4 species)
* Carassius (5 species)
* Cyprinus (24 extant and 1 fossil species)
* Eechathalakenda (Channa barb)
* Gymnocypris (10 species)
* Labeobarbus (126 species)
* Paraqianlabeo (1 species)

## References[edit]

* Phylogeny of the subfamily cyprininae (Pisces: Cyprinidae), Z. Wei, Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 1989
* Cyprininae, XL Chen, HJ Huang, Monographs of Cyprinidae in China, Shanghai, 1982
* Cyprininae, YL Luo, PQ Yue, Fauna Sinica. Osteichthyes: Cypriniformes III. Science, 2000

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q150617
* Wikispecies: Cyprininae
* Fossilworks: 252920
* NCBI: 2743694
* WoRMS: 826615

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