Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Chordata > Class: Actinopterygii > Order: Cypriniformes > Family: Cyprinidae > Genus: Cyprinus > Species: Cyprinus carpio

Aischgrund carp - Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758

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Threat status Europe Vulnerable (IUCN)

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Distribution

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Threat and conservation status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

IUCN Red List Category
Not Evaluated
Near Threatened
Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable
Vulnerable
Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient
Endangered
Extinct
Least Concern
Critically Endangered

EU conservation status

The EU conservation status is assessed for species mentioned in the EU Habitats Directive annexes. The EU Habitats Directive does not cover this species.

Natura 2000 sites

Not available

Legal status

Not listed in legal texts

Common names and synonyms

Common Name Language Reference
Adi pullu Turkish Fishbase
Aischgrund carp English Fishbase
Carban Irish (recte Irish Gaelic) Fishbase
Carpa Italian Fishbase
Carpa Portuguese Fishbase
Carpa Spanish Fishbase
Carpat French Fishbase
Carpe French Fishbase
Carpe commune French Fishbase
Carpeau French Fishbase
Carpo French Fishbase
Ciortan Romanian Fishbase
Ciortanica Romanian Fishbase
Ciortocrap Romanian Fishbase
Ciuciulean Romanian Fishbase
Crap Romanian Fishbase
Crapcean Romanian Fishbase
Cyprinos Greek Fishbase
Escarpo French Fishbase
Kapr obecný Czech Fishbase
Karp Polish Fishbase
Karp Russian Fishbase
Karp Swedish Fishbase
Karp Ukrainian Fishbase
Karp dziki a. sazan Polish Fishbase
Karpar Icelandic Fishbase
Karpe Danish Fishbase
Karpe Norwegian Fishbase
Karpen German Fishbase
Karper Dutch Fishbase
Karpf French Fishbase
Karpfen German Fishbase
Karppi Finnish Fishbase
Kerpaille French Fishbase
Kerpe French Fishbase
Kerpen French Fishbase
Korop Ukrainian Fishbase
Krap Macedonian Fishbase
Krapi Albanian Fishbase
Kyprínos Greek Fishbase
Læderkarpe Danish Fishbase
Mirror carp English Fishbase
Olocari Romanian Fishbase
Ponty Hungarian Fishbase
Saran Romanian Fishbase
Saran Serbian Fishbase
Sazan Russian Fishbase
Sazan baligi Turkish Fishbase
Sharan Bulgarian Fishbase
Skælkarpe Danish Fishbase
Spejlkarpe Danish Fishbase
Sulari Romanian Fishbase
Suloi Romanian Fishbase
Tarama Greek Fishbase
Ulucari Romanian Fishbase
Weißfische German Fishbase
Wild carp English Fishbase
Wild common carp English Fishbase
Zuchtform zierkarpfen (Koi) German Fishbase
Synonym Author
Cyprinus carpio carpio Linnaeus, 1758

Other resources

CoL (accepted name) Catalogue of Life
Fauna Europaea Fauna Europaea
FishBase FishBase
GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ITIS (Valid name) Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI search National Center for Biotechnology Information
NOBANIS: Cyprinus carpio European Network on Invasive Alien Species
PESI (Accepted) Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
WoRMS World Register of Marine Species

External data

No external data sets available for this species
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