Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Cypriniformes

Cyprinidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*minnows and carps*		subjective synonym

Children

Acheilognathinae Bleeker, 1863
Alburninae Girard, 1858
Anaecypris Collares-Pereira, 1983
Aulopyge Heckel, 1841
Barbinae Bleeker, 1859
Cyprininae Rafinesque, 1815
Eupallasella Dybowski, 1916
Gobioninae Bleeker, 1863
Ladigesocypris Karaman, 1972
Leuciscinae Bonaparte, 1835
Pachychilon Steindachner, 1882
Parabramis Bleeker, 1865
Petroleuciscus Bogutskaya, 2002
Phoxinellus Heckel, 1843
Pimephales Rafinesque, 1820
Pseudophoxinus Bleeker, 1860
Romanogobio Banarescu, 1961
Telestes Bonaparte, 1837
Tropidophoxinellus Stephanidis, 1974
Xenocypridinae Günther, 1868

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: minnows or carps sources: Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).

Japanese: コイ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Norwegian Bokmål: karpefamilien sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: karpefamilien sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: karpfiskar

Literature

basis of record	Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
taxonomy source	Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230.

Genbank

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Cyprinidae Rafinesque, 1815. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154163

Dr. Jorg Freyhof. Cyprinidae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/3e88c61f-58b2-44ff-a79c-fdce2ff820b5