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Cirrhinus
Sign in to saveCirrhinus is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. Members of this genus are native to freshwater in South Asia, Indochina and southern China.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCypriniformes
- FamilyCyprinidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 61
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Collections
- CAS, UMMZ, NHMUK, AUM, ANSP, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- China, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Bangladesh, India, Thailande
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Cirrhinus is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. Members of this genus are native to freshwater in South Asia, Indochina and southern China.
== Species == These are the species in the genus. Cirrhinus cirrhosus (Bloch, 1795) (mrigal carp) Cirrhinus jullieni Sauvage, 1878 Cirrhinus microlepis Sauvage, 1878 (smallscale mud carp) Cirrhinus mrigala (Hamilton, 1822) Cirrhinus prosemion (Fowler, 1934) Cirrhinus reba (Hamilton, 1822) (reba carp) Synonyms Cirrhinus macrops Steindachner, 1870 (hora white carp); synonym of C. cirrhosus Cirrhinus molitorella (Valenciennes, 1844) (mud carp); now in the monospecific genus Disymphia (Endruweit, 2025)
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