Carp

1 species of carp in the genus

carp


carp. Body length, slightly flat;

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pair.

3row ,is molar-shaped, dorsal fin base grows in body length 1/3,dorsal fins and hip fins are jagged

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The back of the body gray-black ,side line below to the belly pale white annual fish near golden yellow, dorsal, tail fin base slightly black, male fish tail fin and hip fin orange red.





It is inhabited by rivers, lakes, reservoirs, ponds and grassy areas. Can be cold-resistant, alkali-resistant, oxygen-resistant, can survive in a variety of adverse environment in the waters. After the spring reproduction, into the fat breeding period, a large intake of food, winter swimming into the deep water bottom winter, into the spring and then become active. Benthic animals are the main food, such as snails, slugs, larvae and insect larvae, but also water-eating grass and silky algae. For warm temperage fish.






began laying eggs at the Qingming Festival in the Yangtze River basin ,4 to 6 is the peak

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In the Northeast,

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in June. When laying eggs, water temperature is required 18 to 25 degrees C , eggs are sticky, often adhered to the water grass or other objects to develop. The spawning ground in a river is a place where the rivers and lakes are smouldering. With the increase of age, the amount of eggs in the Yangtze River basin 2 to 2.5 kg of female fish has to 30 million million.






is the most widely distributed fish in China. Because of its strong life force, rapid growth, a wide range of food sources, can reproduce in still water, high food value, fat, delicious, and become China's earliest breeding object. After long-term artificial selection, many breeding species have been cultivated, such as red carp, mirror carp, carp and so on.






are located in the eastern Asian continent, the Heilongjiang, Yellow River, Yangtze River, Pearl River basins in China, as well as Taiwan, Hainan Province to North Korea and Japan. It is distributed west to Lanzhou and Sichuan.






native to Eastern China to Korea and Japan, and fossils are found in the Mesotheliser. At least before the Southern Song Dynasty has been introduced to Afghanistan, 1150
Crusader Expedition to Europe, and then gradually transferred and released to European countries and the United States, Australia and other places, is now the world's most widely farmed fish.