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  • noun Plural form of cyprinid.

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Examples

  • Given that there are probably quite a few small cyprinids in NC, I'd suspect a little-known species over an unknown species, and you'd probably need a specialist to determine that, but there was a new species of fish described in WV earlier this year, so you never know ...

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • For example, increasing the number of cyprinids that consume plankton (e.g., emerald shiner – Notropis atherinoides, lake chub – Couesius plumbeus) in northern waters will possibly divert energy from existing planktivores (e.g., ciscoes) and reduce their population abundances.

    Approaches to projecting climate change effects on arctic fish populations 2009

  • In Europe (including the former Soviet Union), there are 67 threatened species of freshwater fish, including sturgeons, barbs, and other cyprinids.

    Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Wetlands and Water~ Wetlands and Water~ Ecosystems and Human Well-being 2008

  • There were a number of fish bones, comprising the bones of carp (Cyprinus carpio), other cyprinids (Cyprinidae), and catfish (Clarias sp.).

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Faunal Remains from the Fortification Gate 2003

  • The fish bones are still under study at this moment, but cyprinids (carp-like species) seem to be the best represented.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Subsistence Studies Report 1 2003

  • For generations the best of these lustrous cyprinids with double names have grown up to run the Sovereign State of Mississippi, just as their great-grandmothers ran the Old Confederacy, their men dying without shoes in the snows of northern Virginia.

    NYT > Global Home By DWIGHT GARNER 2011

  • For generations the best of these lustrous cyprinids with double names have grown up to run the Sovereign State of Mississippi, just as their great-grandmothers ran the Old Confederacy, their men dying without shoes in the snows of northern Virginia.

    NYT > Home Page By DWIGHT GARNER 2011

  • About 210 genera and 532 species and subspecies living cyprinids have been recorded in China, and more than 28 genera and 34 species of fossil cyprinids have been reported from Tertiary sediments in China.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Almost all fossil cyprinids from Pliocene deposits in China can be referred to living genera, and more than half of them to living species.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • 'I had worked quite a bit on miniature cyprinids (carp-like fishes such as P. progenetica and D. dracula) before and if one had asked me if there was a miniature Pangio out there, I would have said no.'

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

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