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SpeciesCypriniformesCyprinidae
Fish

🐟Grass Carp

Ctenopharyngodon idella (Valenciennes, 1844)

The grass carp is a species of large herbivorous freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae, native to the Pacific Far East, with a native range stretching from northern Vietnam to the Amur River on the Sino-Russian border. This Asian carp is the only species of the genus Ctenopharyngodon.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
25 kg
Body length
0.11 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
21 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Grass Carp

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
25 kgrecord 45 kg ¡ FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge ¡ AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) ¡ CC BY 3.0

Body length
0.11 mrecord 1.5 m ¡ FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

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Maximum lifespan
21 yearsrecord 21 years ¡ FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge ¡ AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) ¡ CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
2
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Source: FishBase ¡ v25.04, estimate table ¡ CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
herbivoreaverage
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From trophic level 2 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
potential pest
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Volume l
25 Laverage
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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 Grass Carp yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderCypriniformes
  4. ›familyCyprinidae
  5. ›genusCtenopharyngodon
  6. ›speciesCtenopharyngodon idella
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish ¡ Actinopterygii
  2. orderCypriniformes
  3. suborderCyprinoidei
  4. genusCtenopharyngodon
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish ¡ Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. superorderCypriniphysae
  10. orderCypriniformes
  11. suborderCyprinoidei
  12. genusCtenopharyngodon
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In other languages
amur bílý (cs), 鯇 (zh), ruohokarppi (fi), Ctenopharyngodon idella (fr), Gresskarpe (nb), graskarper (nl) … and 26 more languages
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