Cirrhinus
| Cirrhinus | |
|---|---|
| Cirrhinus reba | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Labeoninae |
| Genus: | Cirrhinus Oken, 1817[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cyprinus cirrhosus | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cirrhinus is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows. Members of this genus are native to freshwater in South Asia, Indochina and southern China.
Species
These are the species in the genus.[2]
- Cirrhinus cirrhosus (Bloch, 1795) (mrigal carp)
- Cirrhinus jullieni Sauvage, 1878
- Cirrhinus microlepis Sauvage, 1878 (smallscale mud carp)
- Cirrhinus mrigala (Hamilton, 1822)
- Cirrhinus prosemion (Fowler, 1934)
- Cirrhinus reba (Hamilton, 1822) (reba carp)
- Synonyms
- Cirrhinus macrops Steindachner, 1870 (hora white carp); synonym of C. cirrhosus
- Cirrhinus molitorella (Valenciennes, 1844) (mud carp); now in the monospecific genus Disymphia (Endruweit, 2025)
References
- ^ a b c Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Labeoninae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cirrhinus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 February 2026.