🐟Common carp
La carpa común, carpa europea o simplemente carpa (del latín tardío carpa, y este a su vez del gótico karpa) (Cyprinus carpio) es un pez de agua dulce, emparentado con la carpa dorada, con la cual puede incluso tener descendencia híbrida. Ha sido introducida en todos los continentes a excepción de la Antártida. Está incluida en la lista 100 de las especies exóticas invasoras más dañinas del mundo de la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza. Existen variedades xantocrómicas desarrolladas en China como ornamentales, llamadas lĭ yú (鯉魚), y luego difundidas en Japón como koi (鯉, koi?), que poseen un notable colorido. En varias partes de Europa, la carpa común es muy popular en la pesca y existen cebos específicos para su captura. En la República Checa, Eslovaquia, Polonia y Croacia, la carpa es un plato tradicional del día de Nochebuena.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
- Body mass
- 11 kg
- Body length
- 0.31 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 47 years
Everything we know about the Common carp
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass11 kgrecord 40 kg · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length0.31 mrecord 1.2 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Maximum lifespan47 yearsrecord 38 years · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation4 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Litter sizeabout 300000AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic level3.38FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.38 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humanspotential pestFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l11 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Common carp yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderCypriniformes
- ›familyCyprinidae
- ›genusCyprinus
- ›speciesCyprinus carpio
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderCypriniformes
- suborderCyprinoidei
- genusCyprinus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- superorderCypriniphysae
- orderCypriniformes
- suborderCyprinoidei
- genusCyprinus
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