What is CARP?Chinese Major carps, Grass carp, Silver carp, Bighead carp, Black carp, Appearance and anatomy

1. CHINIES MAJOR CARPS
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2. WHAT IS CARP?
 Carp are various species of oily freshwater
fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large
group of fish native to Europe and Asia.
While carp is consumed in many parts of the
world, they are generally considered as
invasive species in parts of Africa, Australia
and most of the United states .

3. CHINESE MAJOR CARPS
 Grass, silver, bighead, and black carp are
known as the "Four Domesticated Fish" in
China and are the most important freshwater
fish species for food and traditional Chinese
medicine. Bighead and silver carp are the
most important fish, worldwide, in terms of
total aquaculture product

4. GRASS CARP
 Kingdom: Animalia
 Phylum: Chordata
 Class: Actinopterygii
 Order: Cypriniformes
 Family: Cyprinidae
 Subfamily: Squaliobarbinae

5. GRASS CARP

6. CONTI…….
 Grass carp is characterized with a wide and
scale‐less head, sub‐terminal or terminal mouth with
simple lips which do not include barbels, protracted
upper jaw and a very short snout.
 The body is slender and rather compressed with a
rounded belly and slightly decurved lateral line .
 Dorsal fin origin is above or just in front of the pelvic
fin origin and the dorsal and anal fins do not have
spines .
 Cycloid scales are dark‐edged with a black spot at
the base, and the gill rakers are short, lanceolate and
widely set.

7. APPEARANCE AND ANATOMY
 Grass carp have elongated, chubby, torpedo-
shaped body forms. The terminal mouth is
slightly oblique with non-fleshy, firm lips, and
no barbels. The complete lateral line contains
40 to 42 scales.

8. SILVER CARP
 Kingdom: Animalia
 Phylum: Chordata
 Class: Actinopterygii
 Order: Cypriniformes
 Family: Cyprinidae
 Subfamily: Xenocyprinae
 Genus: Hypophthalmichthys
 Species: H. molitrix

9. SILVER CARP

10. SILVER CARP
 The silver carp is a deep-bodied fish that is
laterally compressed.
 They are a very silvery in color when young and
when they get older they fade from a greenish
color on the back to silver on the belly.
 They have very tiny scales on their body but the
head and the opercles are scaleless.
 They have a large mouth without any teeth in
the jaw, but they have pharyngeal teeth.
 Its eyes are situated far forward on the midline
of the body and are slightly turned down.

11. BIGHEAD CARP
 Kingdom : Animalia
 Phylum: Chordata
 Class: Actinopterygii
 Order: Cypriniformes
 Family: Cyprinidae
 Subfamily: Xenocyprinae
 Genus:
Hypophthalmichthys
 Species: H. nobilis

12. BIGHEAD CARP

13. BIGHEAD CARP
 The bighead carp is a large, narrow fish with
eyes that project downward.
 Coloration of the body is dark gray, fading to
white toward the underside, and with dark
blotches on the sides.
 Its head has no scales, a large mouth with
no teeth, and a protruding lower jaw.
 Its eyes are located far forward and low on
its head.

14. CONTI……….
 It is very similar to the silver carp, and can be
distinguished by the dark coloration on its
sides.
 The bighead carp can be identified by a
smooth keel between the anal and pelvic fins
that does not extend anterior of the base of
the pelvic fins.

15. BLACK CARP
 Kingdom: Animalia
 Phylum: Chordata
 Class: Actinopterygii
 Order: Cypriniformes
 Family: Cyprinidae
 Subfamily: Squaliobarbinae
 Genus: Mylopharyngodon
 Species: M. piceus

16. BLACK CARP

17. BLACK CARP
 Black carp is a blackish-brown fish with
blackish-grey fins and an elongated and laterally
compressed body.
 One of the black carp’s distinguishing
characteristics is its pharyngeal teeth and this is
reflected in its scientific name.
 Black tipped scales give the appearance of
cross-hatching, Dorsal fin is short and pointed,
containing 7-8 rays, Dorsal fin is located above
the pelvic fins.

18. BLACK CARP:
 Anal fin is located closer to the caudal fin than in
the native minnow.
 The black carp closely resembles the grass carp
in appearance (body shape and size; coloration;
appearance, position, and shape of fins;
position and size of eyes), but may be most
easily distinguished by differences in the
formation of the pharyngeal teeth: they possess
deep parallel grooves on the Grass carp and
appear molar-likethey on the Black carp.