Animalia > Chordata > Cypriniformes > Cyprinidae > Ctenopharyngodon > Ctenopharyngodon idellaCtenopharyngodon idella (silver orfe; White amur; Grass carp; Gardd carp)Synonyms: Ctenopharingodon idella; Ctenopharingodon idellus; Ctenopharygodon idella; Ctenopharyngodon idellos; Ctenopharyngodon idellus; Ctenopharyngodon laticeps; Leuciscus idella; Leuciscus idellus; Leuciscus tschiliensis; Pristiodon siemionovii; Sarcocheilichthys teretiusculus Language: Afrikaans; Albanian; Bulgarian; Cantonese; Czech; Danish; Dutch; Estonian; Fijian; Finnish; French; German; Greek; Italian; Japanese; Kannada; Khmer; Kirghiz; Korean; Laotian; Latvian; Lithuanian; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Norwegian; Persian; Polish; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Slovak; Spanish; Swedish; Tamil; Thai; Vietnamese The grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) is the species of fish with the largest reported production in aquaculture globally, over five million tonnes per year. It is a large herbivorous freshwater fish species of the family Cyprinidae native to eastern Asia, with a native range from northern Vietnam to the Amur River on the Siberia-China border. This Asian carp is the only species of the genus Ctenopharyngodon. |
Adult Length [1] | 4.92 feet (150 cm) | Brood Dispersal [1] | In the open | Brood Egg Substrate [1] | Pelagophils | Brood Guarder [1] | No | Litter Size [1] | 1,276,000 | Maximum Longevity [1] | 21 years | Migration [4] | Potamodromous | | Adult Weight [2] | 54.565 lbs (24.75 kg) | | Diet [3] | Omnivore, Planktivore, Detritivore | | Female Maturity [1] | 4 years 2 months | Male Maturity [2] | 4 years |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Apalachicola |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Appalachian Piedmont |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Cantabric Coast - Languedoc |
France, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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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 |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Central Prairie |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Chesapeake Bay |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Colorado |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins |
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Columbia Glaciated |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Columbia Unglaciated |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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East Texas Gulf |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Florida Peninsula |
United States |
Nearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers |
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Gila |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins |
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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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Northeast US & Southeast Canada Atlantic Drainages |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Northern Baltic Drainages |
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden |
Palearctic |
Polar Freshwaters |
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Ouachita Highlands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Ozark Highlands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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Pecos |
United States |
Nearctic |
Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins |
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Sabine - Galveston |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal 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 Danube |
Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Upper Mississippi |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Upper Rio Grande - Bravo |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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US Southern Plains |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Upland Rivers |
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West Florida Gulf |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Amudarya Zapovednik State Nature Reserve |
Ia |
152861 |
Lebap, Turkmenistan |
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Batang Ai National Park |
II |
62638 |
Sarawak, Malaysia |
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Bialowieza National Park |
II |
11126 |
Poland |
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Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve |
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9859505 |
New York, Vermont, United States |
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Ciénaga de Zapata National Park |
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1606900 |
Cuba |
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Fanjingshan Nature Reserve |
V |
86145 |
Guizhou, China |
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Flusslandschaft Elbe Biosphere Reserve |
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925242 |
Germany |
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George WA Carver National Monument |
V |
210 |
Missouri, United States |
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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore |
II |
8272 |
Indiana, United States |
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Kiskunsag Biosphere Reserve |
II |
54598 |
Hungary |
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Little River National Wildlife Refuge |
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Oklahoma, United States |
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Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park |
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20001 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Okskiy Biosphere Reserve |
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190748 |
Russia |
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Palava Protected Landscape Area |
V |
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Czech Republic |
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Prespa National Park |
II |
62043 |
Greece |
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Shiga Highland Biosphere Reserve |
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32124 |
Honshu, Japan |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Spreewald Biosphere Reserve |
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117355 |
Germany |
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Trebon Basin Protected Landscape Area |
V |
173393 |
Czech Republic |
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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. ♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 3Myers, 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♦ 4Grenouillet, G. & Schmidt-Kloiber., A.; 2006; Fish Indicator Database. Euro-limpacs project, Workpackage 7 - Indicators of ecosystem health, Task 4, www.freshwaterecology.info, version 5.0 (accessed on July 3, 2012). ♦ 5Jorrit 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. ♦ 6Gibson, 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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