A short description about common carp.presentation on common carp.which scientific name is cyprinus carpio.this fish is very important for aquaculture.the growth rate is high and culture system of this fish is very easy.This freshwater fish has a good market demand also.

1. Common Carp
(Cyprinus carpio)

2. Scientific classificatio
n• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Actinopterygii
• Order: Cypriniformes
• Family: Cyprinidae
• Genus: Cyprinus
• Species: C. carpio
Other Name: Mirror carp, European c

3. Key Distinguishing Markin
g
• There are two barbels on each side of the mouth. No oth
er species that closely resembles the carp has these barb
els.
• The carp's body is robust, deep and thick, and arched to
ward the dorsal fin.
• Carp have a lengthy dorsal fin, with nearly 20 soft rays.
The dorsal fin extends well along the back, and the fin e
dge is high in the front and straight in back.
• The tail fin is forked and is often a "reddish" color.
• The first dorsal and anal fin spines are serrated

4. The typical carp's back is olive-brown to reddish brown, wi
th the sides becoming silvery-bronze, brassy, or olive-gold.
The belly is yellow or yellow-white.
Most carp are bronze-gold to golden yellow on the sides an
d yellowish white on the belly.
Most carp are heavily scaled, but two genetic mutants sho
w either few, extremely large scales
Key Distinguishing Marki
ng

5. •Size:
• Carp are the largest member of the minnow family.
• Carp generally grow to about 30 inches and 10 to 15 po
unds, but they can weigh up to 60 pounds.​

6. Habitat:
Genarally common carp are living bott
om dweller and detrivorus fish. Ponds,
rivers, lakes, canals, beels, baors etc. b
oth open and closed water bodies.
Breeding time:
Usually breeds in rainy season. This exotic c
arp species is now well known in Banglades
h. Seeds can be produce by induced breedin
g technique. Now found all over Bangladesh
especially all culture ponds and baors (Talw
ar and Jhingran, 2001).

7. Food
Common carp are omnivorous . Th
ey can eat a herbivorous diet of w
ater plants, but prefer to scavenge
the bottom for insects ,
crustaceans (including zooplankto
n ), crawfish, and benthic worms,
plank.crust, phytoplankton etc.

8. Economic importance: Scale carp i
s a cultruable highly growing speci
es. Very delicious food and protein
supply a huge number of the peopl
e (Rahman, 2005).

9. Name - Ashik Hossen
Roll- ASH 1602013 M
Session -2015-2016
Department Of Fisheries & Marine Science
Noakhali Science &Technology University