Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish, commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest vertebrate animal family in general, with about 3,000 species of which only 1,270 remain extant, divided into about 370 genera. Cyprinids range from about 12 mm in size to the 3-m giant barb. By genus and species count, the family makes up more than two-thirds of the ostariophysian order Cypriniformes. The family name is derived from the Greek word kyprînos.
The iridescent shark,iridescent shark catfish or tra catfish is a species of shark catfish native to the rivers of Southeast Asia. Despite its name, it is not a shark. It is found in the Mekong basin as well as the Chao Phraya River, and is heavily cultivated for food there.
Barbodes binotatus, commonly known as the spotted barb or common barb, is a tropical species of cyprinid fish native to Southeast Asia. It has also become established as an exotic species in Palau and Singapore.
The Indo-Pacific tarpon, also known as the oxeye herring or simply herring, is the smaller of the two species of tarpon and lives in Indo-Pacific waters.
Barbodes cataractae is a species of cyprinid endemic to the Philippines where it is known from the Cascade River and the brackish waters of Murcielagos Bay in Mindanao. This species is commercially important.
Pao leiurus is a species of pufferfish found in Southeast Asia from Thailand to Indonesia and in particular the Mekong basin. It is occasionally imported into the aquarium trade but is reported to be aggressive and snappish.
The humpback puffer Pao palembangensis or Tetraodon palembangensis, is a species of freshwater pufferfish native to Thailand, Laos, Malaysia and Indonesia in Southeast Asia. Living in alkalescent, warm (24–28°), and slow-flowing rivers. It grows to a length of 19.4 centimetres (7.6 in) SL, with both sexes having a similar body size, but the male having a much larger rear hump. The humpback puffer is a popular ornamental fish because of its beautiful skin colouration and pattern. As a pufferfish its body contains the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin (TTX), and it can swell up to three times its normal size as a defence mechanism when threatened. Having a small genome size (362Mb), a chromosome-scale genome assembly of the humpback puffer was sequenced as part of the Fish10K subproject of the Earth BioGenome Project.
Osteochilus is a genus of cyprinid fishes mainly found in Southeast Asia with a few extending into adjacent parts of China. Additionally, two species are endemic to the Western Ghats in India.
Osteochilus longidorsalis is a species of fish in the family Cyprinidae. Its common names are hiffin carp and long finned barb.
Crossocheilus reticulatus is a freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae from Southeast Asia. It grows to 17 cm (6.7 in) standard length.
Labiobarbus siamensis is a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae native to the rivers of Thailand.
Osteochilus lini is a freshwater fish from Southeast Asia. It is found in the lower Mekong River basin, the Chao Phraya River basin, and some coastal drainages; it occurs in Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. Its common name is dusky face carp.
Osteochilus microcephalus is a cyprinid freshwater fish from Southeast Asia.
Osteochilus spilurus is a cyprinid freshwater fish from Southeast Asia. It is found in Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. It grows to 7.5 cm (3.0 in) SL.
Osteochilus vittatus is a species of cyprinid fish from Southeast Asia. Its common name is bonylip barb, hard-lipped barb, or silver sharkminnow. It grows to 32 cm (13 in) SL.
Osteochilus waandersii is a cyprinid freshwater fish from Southeast Asia. It is found in Indochina as well as in Sumatra and Borneo. Its common name is Waanders's hard-lipped barb.
Osteochilus brachynotopteroides is a fresh water fish in the family Cyprinidae from Southeast Asia. It occurs in the lower Mekong Basin and is present in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam; it is expected to occur in Cambodia but has not been found there.
The giant red tail gourami is a large species of gourami belonging to the family Osphronemidae. It is native to the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, where only known from the Kinabatangan and Segama river basins in Sabah, East Malaysia. First described in 1992 based on an aquarium specimen, its exact range was not entirely certain, leading some source to incorrectly also report it from Indonesia.
The giant sharkminnow a species of cyprinid fish found in southeast Asia.
