9622

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9622
• Author: Schofield, P. J. and e. al.
• Title: Foreign Nonindigenous Carps and Minnows ‎(Cyprinidae)‎ in the United States - A Guide to their Identification, Distribution, and Biology.
• USFW Year: 2005.
• USFW - Doc Type: 2005-5041,
• Copyright Material: NO

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Plates

1. Map showing native distribution ofthe Family Cyprinidae 2
2-12. Maps showing distribution of foreign nonindigenous cyprinids in the United States for:
2. Goldfish 23
3. Crucian Carp 29
4. Grass Carp 38
5. Common Carp 44
6. Silver Carp 49
7. Bighead Carp 54
8. Ide 58
9. Black Carp 62
10. Bitterling 66
11. Rudd 71
12. Tench 76

Figures

1-10. Photographs or images depicting:
1. Examples of nonindigenous cyprinids, showing those having a long dorsal fin
with 13 or more branched rays, and those having a short dorsal fin with 12 or
fewer branched rays 7
2. Head of Common Carp, showing two fleshy barbels near corner of jaw 7
3. Pharyngeal teeth of Common Carp and Goldfish 8
4. Concave dorsal fin of Goldfish, and convex dorsal fin of Crucian Carp 8
5. Head of Tench, showing single barbel near corner of jaw 9
6. Ventral keels of Silver Carp and Bighead Carp 10
7. Fused, sponge-like gill rakers of Silver Carp, and slender, comblike rakers of
Bighead Carp 11
8. Keel of Rudd 12
9. Pharyngeal teeth of Grass Carp and Black Carp 13
10. Body cavity linings of Grass Carp and Black Carp 13

11. Goldfish 19
12. Pharyngeal teeth 19
13. Cultured (fancy) form 21
14. Wild (olivaceous) form 21

15. Crucian Carp 25
16. Deep-bodied form 26
17. Slender (humilisl form 26
18. Pharyngeal teeth 27