Cypriniformes

Cypriniformes
Temporal range: Paleocene–recent
A wild-type common carp (Cyprinus carpio, Cyprinidae: Cyprininae)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
(unranked): Otophysi
(unranked): Cypriniphysae
Order: Cypriniformes
Bleeker, 1859
Type species
Cyprinus carpio
Families[4]

Acheilognathidae[1]
Balitoridae
Barbuccidae[2]
Botiidae[2]
Catostomidae
Cobitidae
Cyprinidae
Danionidae[1]
Ellopostomatidae[2]
Gastromyzontidae[2]
Gobionidae[1]
Gyrinocheilidae
†Jianghanichthyidae[3]
Leptobarbidae[1]
Leuciscidae[1]
Nemacheilidae
Paedocyprididae[1]
Psilorhynchidae
Serpenticobitidae[2]
Sundadanionidae[1]
Tanichthyidae[1]
Tincidae[1]
Vaillantellidae[2]
Xenocyprididae[1]
and see text

Diversity
Around 4,205 species

Cypriniformes /sɪˈprɪnɪfɔːrmiːz/ is an order of ray-finned fish, which includes many families and genera of cyprinid (carps and their kin) fish, such as barbs, gobies, loaches, botias, and minnows (among others). Cypriniformes is an "order-within-an-order", placed under the superorder Ostariophysi—which is also made up of cyprinid, ostariophysin fishes. The order contains 11–12 families (with some authorities having listed as many as 23),[5] over 400 genera, and more than 4,250 named species; new species are regularly described, and new genera are recognized frequently.[4][6] Cyprinids are most diverse in South and Southeast Asia, but are entirely absent from Australia and South America.[7] At 112 years old, the longest-lived cypriniform fish documented is the bigmouth buffalo.[8]

Their closest living relatives are the Characiformes (characins, tetras and their kin), the Gymnotiformes (electric eel and American knifefishes), and the Siluriformes (catfishes).[9]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Tan & Armbruster (2018)
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  4. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Order Cypriniformes". FishBase. December 2012 version.
  5. ^ Milton Tan & Jonathan W. Ambruster (2018). "Phylogenetic Classification of Extant Genera of Fishes of the Order Cypriniformes". Zootaxa. 4476 (1): 006–039. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4476.1.4. PMID 30313339. S2CID 52976511.
  6. ^ Eschmeyer, W.N., Fong, J.D. (2015) Species by family/subfamily in the Catalog of Fishes, California Academy of Sciences (retrieved 2 July 2015)
  7. ^ Nelson (2006)
  8. ^ Lackmann, Alec R.; Andrews, Allen H.; Butler, Malcolm G.; Bielak-Lackmann, Ewelina S.; Clark, Mark E. (23 May 2019). "Bigmouth Buffalo Ictiobus cyprinellus sets freshwater teleost record as improved age analysis reveals centenarian longevity". Communications Biology. 2 (1): 197. doi:10.1038/s42003-019-0452-0. ISSN 2399-3642. PMC 6533251. PMID 31149641.
  9. ^ Saitoh et al. (2003), Briggs (2005)