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SpeciesCypriniformesCyprinidae
Fish

🐟Grass Carp

Ctenopharyngodon idella (Valenciennes, 1844)

De graskarper (Ctenopharyngodon idella) is een exoot in de wateren van de Benelux. De graskarper is een echte herbivoor. Hij wordt uitgezet daar waar beplanting in en langs het water als een probleem gezien wordt.

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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

Source: FishBase ¡ v25.04 ¡ CC BY-NC 4.0

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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amur bílý (cs), 鯇 (zh), ruohokarppi (fi), Ctenopharyngodon idella (fr), Gresskarpe (nb), graskarper (nl) … and 26 more languages
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