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 Contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Suggested Citation
- Conversion Factors
- Introduction
- Foreign Cyprinids Treated in this Guide
- What is a Cyprinid?
- Methods
- Key to Species
- Table of Characters
- Species Accounts
- Acknowledgments
- Addendum
- References Cited
- Appendix A - Foreign cyprinids established or reported from the United States
- Appendix B - Meristics of foreign nonindigenous cyprinids and selected hybrids
- Appendix C - Nonindigenous aquatic species reporting form
- Abbreviated diagnostic key to foreign nonindigenous cyprinids of the United States
- Download the Print Version in Adobe Acrobat PDF Format - 20 mb
 Plates- 1. Map showing native distribution of the Family Cyprinidae
- 2-12. Maps showing distribution of foreign nonindigenous cyprinids in the United States for:
- 2. Goldfish
- 3. Crucian Carp
- 4. Grass Carp
- 5. Common Carp
- 6. Silver Carp
- 7. Bighead Carp
- 8. Ide
- 9. Black Carp
- 10. Bitterling
- 11. Rudd
- 12. Tench
- Figures
- 1-10. Photographs or images depicting:
- 1. Examples of nonindigenous cyprinids, showing those having a long dorsal fin with 13 or more branched rays, and those having a short dorsal fin with 12 or fewer branched rays
- 2. Head of Common Carp, showing two fleshy barbels near corner of jaw
- 3. Pharyngeal teeth of Common Carp and Goldfish
- 4. Concave dorsal fin of Goldfish, and convex dorsal fin of Crucian Carp
- 5. Head of Tench, showing single barbel near corner of jaw
- 6. Ventral keels of Silver Carp and Bighead Carp
- 7. Fused, sponge-like gill rakers of Silver Carp, and slender, comblike rakers of Bighead Carp
- 8. Keel of Rudd
- 9. Pharyngeal teeth of Grass Carp and Black Carp
- 10. Body cavity linings of Grass Carp and Black Carp
- 11. Goldfish
- 12. Pharyngeal teeth
- 13. Cultured (fancy) form
- 14. Wild (olivaceous) form
- 15. Crucian Carp
 16. Deep-bodied form- 17. Slender (humilis) form
- 18. Pharyngeal teeth
- 19. Grass Carp
- 24. Common Carp
- 25. Pharyngeal teeth
- 26. Scaled variety
- 27. Mirror variety
- 28. Leather variety
- 29. Ornamental Koi in a pond at Li Yuan Garden, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China
- 30. Silver Carp
- 31. Ventral keel
- 32. Pharyngeal teeth
- 33. Juvenile
- 34. Adult
- 35. Bighead Carp
- 36. Ventral keel
- 37. Pharyngeal teeth
- 38. Juvenile
- 39. Ide
- 41. Black Carp
- 42. Black Carp from the species’ native range in the Chang (Yangtze) River Basin, Hunan Province, Peoples Republic of China
- 43. Pharyngeal teeth
- 44. Bitterling
- 46. Rudd
- 47. Pharyngeal teeth
- 48. Adult
- 49. Ventrolateral and posterior aspect of abdomen showing a scaled keel in Rudd, a partially scaled keel in hybrid Rudd X Golden Shiner, and a naked keel in Golden Shiner
- 50. Tench
- 51. Pharyngeal teeth
- 52. Tench taken by anglers from two sites in Europe: Willis’s Lake in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and in Belgium
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