🐟Silver carp
The silver carp or silverfin is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish, a variety of Asian carp native to China and eastern Siberia, from the Amur River drainage in the north to the Xi Jiang River drainage in the south. Although a threatened species in its natural habitat, it has long been cultivated in China as one of the "four famous domestic fish" (四大家鱼) together with bighead carp, black carp, and grass carp. By weight, more silver carp are produced worldwide in aquaculture than any other species of fish except for the grass carp. Silver carp are usually farmed in polyculture with other Asian carp, or sometimes with catla or other fish species.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2011.
- Body mass
- 50 kg
- Body length
- 0.18 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 20 years
Everything we know about the Silver carp
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass50 kgmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length0.18 mrecord 1.2 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Maximum lifespan20 yearsmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic level2.28FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietomnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 2.28 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humanspotential pestFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l50 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 Silver carp yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderCypriniformes
- ›familyCyprinidae
- ›genusHypophthalmichthys
- ›speciesHypophthalmichthys molitrix
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderCypriniformes
- suborderCyprinoidei
- genusHypophthalmichthys
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- superorderCypriniphysae
- orderCypriniformes
- suborderCyprinoidei
- genusHypophthalmichthys
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