silver carp

English

Silver carp

Noun

silver carp (plural silver carps or silver carp)

1. A fish of the species Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, native to East Asia, cultivated as a food fish.
   • 2023 April 4, Shuang-Lin Dong, Xiang-Li Tian, Qin-Feng Gao, Yun-Wei Dong, Aquaculture Ecology‎^[1], Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 342:

     The main fish species in freshwater ponds in China are silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp, common carp, crucian carp, black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus), mud carp (Cirrhinus molitorella), etc. According to their live habitat, they can be divided relatively into pelagic and benthic fish.

Synonyms

• (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix): flying carp

Translations

Hypophthalmichthys molitrix

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白鰱 / 白鲢 (zh) (báilián)

• Dutch: zilverkarper (nl) m
• Finnish: hopeakarppi
• German: Silberkarpfen m
• Japanese: 白鰱 (ja) (ハクレン, hakuren)
• Korean: 백련어 (baengnyeoneo)
• Polish: tołpyga f, tołpyga biała f
• Portuguese: carpa prateada f
• Russian: бе́лый толстоло́бик m (bélyj tolstolóbik), обыкнове́нный толстоло́бик m (obyknovénnyj tolstolóbik), толстоло́бик (ru) (tolstolóbik)

Further reading

• silver carp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hypophthalmichthys molitrix on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Hypophthalmichthys molitrix on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons