Carassius: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Carassius
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Carassius
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Carassius
Carassius is a genus in the ray-finned fish family Cyprinidae. Most species in this genus are commonly known as crucian carps, though that term often refers specifically to C. carassius. The most well known species is the goldfish (C. auratus). They have a Eurasian distribution, apparently originating further to the west than the typical carps (Cyprinus genus, which includes the common carp).
The genus may not be monophyletic, with molecular phylogenetics finding that the genus Carassiodes is nested within Carassius; that clade is in turn sister to the typical carps in the genus Cyprinus.
...Carassius in languages:
- Chinese
- 鯽屬
- Czech
- karas
- English
- Crucian Carps
- Estonian
- Kogred
- Finnish
- ruutanat
- Japanese
- フナ属
- Korean
- 붕어속
- Latvian
- Karūsas
- Russian
- Караси
- Slovak
- karas
- Swedish
- rudor
- Thai
- ปลาทอง ปลาคาร์ปปรัสเซีย ฯลฯ
- Ukrainian
- Карась
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Aaptosyax
- Albulichthys
- Amblyrhynchichthys
- Balantiocheilos
- Barbonymus
- Carassioides
- Carassius
- Cosmochilus
- Cyclocheilichthys
- Cyclocheilos
- Cyprinus
- Cyprinus × Carassius
- Discherodontus
- Eirmotus
- Hypsibarbus
- Kalimantania
- Laocypris
- Luciocyprinus
- Mystacoleucus
- Neobarynotus
- Parasikukia
- Paraspinibarbus
- Parator
- Poropuntius
- Procypris
- Pseudosinocyclocheilus
- Puntioplites
- Rohteichthys
- Sawbwa
- Scaphognathops
- Sikukia
- Sinocyclocheilus
- Troglocyclocheilus
- Typhlobarbus































































































































































