Cyprinidae

• “Of the 34 families represented in the hotspot, minnows (family Cyprinidae) are dominant, followed by killifishes (Nothobranchius spp.).”

  Biological diversity in the coastal forests of Eastern Africa

• “The three most diverse of the 30 different families represented here are minnows and carps (Cyprinidae; 93 species and 11 endemics), river loaches (Balitoridae; 47 species and 14 endemics), and sisorid catfishes (Sisoridae; 34 species and four endemics).”

  Biological diversity in the Himalayas

• “Morphological variation and taxonomic status of the Altai osman Qreoleuciscus (Pisces: Cyprinidae) from the upper reaches of the Ob River System.”

  Altai montane forest and forest steppe

• “The majority of fish in the hotspot are from two families, Cyprinidae and Balitoridae, while most of the endemic fish are from two genera, Schizothorax and Triplophysa.”

  Biological diversity in the mountains of Southwest China

• “While most inland waters are dominated by fishes entering from the sea, there is also a significant representation of strictly freshwater groups, including minnows (Cyprinidae) and loaches (Cobitidae and Balitoridae) that have diversified within the hotspot and account for nearly half of the endemic species and three of four endemic genera.”

  Biological diversity in Japan

• “Many of these species come from the minnow family Cyprinidae.”

  Biological diversity in the Madrean pine-oak woodlands

• “There were a number of fish bones, comprising the bones of carp (Cyprinus carpio), other cyprinids (Cyprinidae), and catfish (Clarias sp.).”

  Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Faunal Remains from the Fortification Gate

• “In these excavations there appeared not only the _Cyprinidae_ in considerable numbers, but fresh water clams which grew to be as large as those in the most favored streams.”

  Life: Its True Genesis

• “Hindoo-koosh should likewise be the exclusive province of a numerous group of small scaled Cyprinidae, met with only in the rivers of”

  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

• “Then come loaches, and the beautiful trout-like Opsarion; other Cyprinidae ascend 2,000 or 3,000 feet, the”

  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

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