Carassius auratus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid, 2023, Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist, Zootaxa 5305 (1), pp. 1-69 : 22

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5305.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:55EB7903-BB1A-45F9-9660-16DAF957C67A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8097164

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA1A3C-FFBF-FF9E-38E2-1A6C8AF16188

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Plazi

scientific name

Carassius auratus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
status

 

Carassius auratus ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL View at ENA

[I]—Goldfish

Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinus auratus Linnaeus, 1758: 322 View in CoL [ China; Japanese rivers; no types known].— Afghanistan synonyms: None.—Revisions: None.—Illustration: Guo (2021: 472, fig.).

Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by Moravec and Amin (1978); confirmed by Coad (1980; 1981: 9; 2014: 318).—Afghanistan materials: CMN.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan: Kabul River basin, Sistan, Pishin Lora drainage, Amu Darya drainage.—General distribution: East Asia: China and Japan; introduced widely elsewhere; many cultivated goldfish varieties.—Habitat: This species inhabits rivers, lakes, reservoirs, ponds and ditches with stagnant or slow-flowing water. It occurs in eutrophic fresh and brackish waters, well vegetated ponds and canals. Freshwater.

Economic importance. Valuable for the aquarium trade.

Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cypriniformes

Family

Cyprinidae

Genus

Carassius

Loc

Carassius auratus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid 2023
2023
Loc

Cyprinus auratus

Linnaeus 1758: 322
1758
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