Carp

Carp Carp Various species of cyprinid fishes This article is about the fish. For other uses, see Carp (disambiguation). The term carp (pl.: carp) is a generic common name for numerous species of freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large clade of ray-finned fish mostly native to Eurasia. While carp are prized quarries and are valued (even commercially cultivated) as both food and ornamental fish in many parts of the Old World,[1] they are considered trash fish and invasive pests in many parts of Africa, Australia and most of the United States.[2][3] 1913 illustration of Cyprinus carpio, better known as the common carp Common carp in Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota Biology The cypriniformes (family Cyprinidae) are traditionally grouped with…

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