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<br />e,UJHfl_ <br /> <br />Introduction 1 <br />Foreign Cyprinids Treated in this Guide 2 <br />What is a Cyprinid? 3 <br />Introduced Versus Native Cyprinids 3 <br />Other Fishes 3 <br />Reporting Discovery of Nonindigenous Species 4 <br />Methods 4 <br />Taxonomy 4 <br />Meristic and Morphometric Measures 4 <br />Pharyngeal Teeth 4 <br />Museum Specimens 5 <br />Maps 5 <br /> <br />Key to Species 7 <br />Table of Characters 14 <br /> <br />Species Accounts 17 <br />Goldfish (Carassius auratus) 19 <br />Crucian Carp (Carassius carassius) 25 <br />Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) 31 <br />Spawning Requirements of Chinese Carps (Silver, Grass, Bighead, and Black) 34 <br />Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) 39 <br />Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) 45 <br />Bighead Carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) 51 <br />Ide (Leuciscus idus) 55 <br />Black Carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) 59 <br />Bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus) 63 <br />Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus) 67 <br />Tench (Tinea tinea) 73 <br /> <br />Acknowledgments 77 <br />Addendum 77 <br />References Cited 79 <br /> <br />Appendix A-Foreign cyprinids established or reported from the United States 93 <br />Appendix B-Meristics of foreign nonindigenous cyprinids and selected hybrids 97 <br />Appendix C-Nonindigenous aquatic species reporting form 103 <br /> <br />Abbreviated diagnostic key to foreign non indigenous cyprinids of the <br />United States Inside back cover <br /> <br />iii <br /> <br />~ <br />, ~"'7J. <br />;~:j <br />- -~4 <br />~ "'t. ................-.. <br />--.::-- - - ............ ....."....... <br />-=:-- __- -'~r~ <br />--~- <br />-- . A ~ <br />__ ""P ~ . <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />