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Definition of Cyprinid fish
1. Noun. Soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales.
Generic synonyms: Cypriniform Fish
Group relationships: Cyprinidae, Family Cyprinidae
Specialized synonyms: Carp, Tench, Tinca Tinca, Dace, Leuciscus Leuciscus, Chub, Leuciscus Cephalus, Shiner, Roach, Rutilus Rutilus, Rudd, Scardinius Erythrophthalmus, Minnow, Phoxinus Phoxinus, Gobio Gobio, Gudgeon, Carassius Auratus, Goldfish, Carassius Carassius, Carassius Vulgaris, Crucian Carp
Derivative terms: Cyprinid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyprinid Fish
Literary usage of Cyprinid fish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"Notropis bocagrande, a new cyprinid fish from Chihuahua, Mexico, with comments
on Notropis formosus. Copeia 1982(3) :514-522 . ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"1177 MIOCENE A new species of cyprinid fish, based upon four specimens discovered
by Bruce Rose of the Canadian Geological Survey near Kam- loops Lake, BC, ..."
3. A Bibliography of Fishes by Bashford Dean, Eugene Willis Gudger, American Museum of Natural History, Arthur Wilbur Henn (1917)
"Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1913, 1096-1097. 1913.4 - Description of a new cyprinid
fish from Singapore. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1913, 8. ser. 11, 394. ..."
4. The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History by David M. Damkaer (2002)
"... a new genus and species, based on five live specimens taken by Nordmann from
cyprinid fish in November 1831. Nordmann provided a long description of the ..."
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