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Taxon: Family Cyprinidae Rafinesque, 1815 - carps (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Rafinesque, 1815, orth. corr.
Unavailable original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 32 ("Ordine. I Ciprinidi.). [family, nom. vernac.; published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2]. ≡
Original name & rank:  Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 88 ("Famille. Cyprinia."). ≡
Subsequent spelling: 
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 37 ("Rafinesque 1815").

Attributes

Justified emendation of suffix (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Arts. 29.2, 34.1 (family)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 38. [inferred]

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Cyprininae (Subfamily) Rafinesque, 1815 Ref: R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021: (4 Feb 2025). [inferred]
Type: Cyprinus (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021: 9 Apr 2025; 30 Apr 2012. [inferred]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: witvissen
: karpers Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: carps Ref: R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021: (4 Feb 2025).
: minnows, carps, and loaches Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 181.
: minnows and carps Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2455.
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