Directory of Cypriniformes Resources

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Order of fish that includes minnows, carp, and suckers.

Resources in This Category

• Common Carp: Cyprinus carpio

  http://www.arkive.org/common-carp/cyprinus-carpio/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including classification, status, description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• Cypriniformes Tree of Life

  http://bio.slu.edu/mayden/cypriniformes/home.html
  A multidisciplinary, collaborative project focused on uncovering the evolutionary relationships, classification, and biodiversity.

• Danio rerio Sequencing Project

  http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_rerio/
  Overview of the program to sequence the genome of the zebrafish (Danio rerio), which is known as a powerful model to study vertebrate developmental biology and disease. Includes image.

• Daska: Pseudophoxinus stymphalicus

  http://www.arkive.org/daska/pseudophoxinus-stymphalicus/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including classification, status, description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• European Carp, Cyprinus carpio

  http://australianmuseum.net.au/European-Carp-Cyprinus-carpio-Linnaeus-1758/
  Native of Asia but extensive introductions to other parts of the world have made this fish widely distributed. Description, image, and discussion of occurrence and management problems in Australia.

• Hypophthalmichthys molitrix

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2010/schlende_abby/
  Student project on the silver carp including classification, habitat, adaptation, nutrition, reproduction and interactions with other species.

• Luxilus cornutus

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2010/cloutier_jonp/
  Student project on the common shiner with classification, habitat, fish anatomy, adaptation, diet, reproduction and interactions with other species.

• Pimephales promelas

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2010/ahrens_ange/
  Student project on the blunt nose minnow with classification, habitat, adaptation, diet, reproduction and interactions with other species.

• Roach: Rutilus rutilus

  http://www.arkive.org/roach/rutilus-rutilus/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including classification, status, description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• Sawfin: Barbus serra

  http://www.arkive.org/sawfin/barbus-serra/
  Photographs and information from ARKive including classification, status, description, range, habitat, biology, threats and conservation.

• Sucker: Catostomus

  http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10364_18958-45693--,00.html
  Fact sheet about two members of the Catostomedae, or sucker family, found in Michigan. Includes an image of the white sucker, Catostomus commersoni. Also discusses the longnose sucker, C. catostomus.

 

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