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Carps, barbels and roaches form the largest family of freshwater fish. It counts about three thousand species. It lives in Eurasia, Africa and North America. These fish have no teeth in the jaws but carry some in the throat. Many are kept in ponds for food or ornament.
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Cyprinidae
Barbus barbus · Least concern
Its name, like the French barbeau, comes from the four whisker-like barbels at the corners of its mouth, which it uses to find food on the bottom of fast, gravelly rivers. It can reach 1.2 m and 12 kg and live over 20 years.
Photo: Neil Phillips from uk (CC BY 2.0)
Cyprinidae
Mylopharyngodon piceus · Least concern
The black carp is the rarest of China's 'four famous domestic fishes' and the most expensive at market, prized for food and Chinese medicine. With grass, silver and bighead carp, it has been raised in ponds for over 1,000 years. It can reach 1.9 m and 35 kg, and it arrived in the United States by accident in the 1970s, hidden in a grass carp shipment.
Photo: USFWS Fish and Aquatic Conservation (Public domain)
Cyprinidae
Alburnus alburnus · Least concern
The bleak's silvery scales once served a craft: Jaquin extracted from them a shiny substance called 'essence d'Orient', or pearl essence, made of crystalline guanine and used to make artificial pearls. This small fish lives in large schools and feeds on insects fallen into the water.
Photo: Piet Spaans (CC BY-SA 2.5)
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