Animalia > Chordata > Cypriniformes > Cyprinidae > Hypophthalmichthys > Hypophthalmichthys nobilisHypophthalmichthys nobilis (Bighead carp; Bighead; Big head carp; Big head)Synonyms: Aristichthys nobilis; Hypophthalmichthys mantschuricu; Hypophthalmichthys mantschuricus (heterotypic); Hypophthalmichthys simoni; Leuciscus nobilis Language: Albanian; Bulgarian; Cantonese; Czech; Danish; Dutch; Estonian; Finnish; French; German; Greek; Italian; Japanese; Kannada; Kirghiz; Korean; Latvian; Lithuanian; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Persian; Polish; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Slovak; Spanish; Swedish; Thai; Ukrainian; Vietnamese ("Bigheaded carp" redirects here. For the genus as a whole, see Hypophthalmichthys.) The bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) is a species of freshwater fish, one of several Asian carps. It is one of the most intensively exploited fishes in aquaculture, with an annual worldwide production of over three million tonnes in 2013, principally from China. The bighead carp has a large, scaleless head, a large mouth, and eyes located very low on the head. Adults usually have a mottled silver-gray coloration. It is a large fish; a typical length is 60 cm, and maximum observed size 146 cm and 40 kg. |
| Adult Length [1] | 39 inches (100 cm) | | Brood Dispersal [1] | In the open | | Brood Egg Substrate [1] | Pelagophils | | Brood Guarder [1] | No | | Litter Size [1] | 1,000,000 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 10 years | | Migration [2] | Potamodromous |  | | Diet [2] | Planktivore, Detritivore, Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | | Female Maturity [1] | 4 years |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
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Central Prairie |
United States |
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Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Cumberland |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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East Texas Gulf |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Laurentian Great Lakes |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Large Lakes |
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Lower Mississippi |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Middle Missouri |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Mobile Bay |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Ouachita Highlands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Teays - Old Ohio |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Tennessee |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Upper Mississippi |
United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495. ♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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