Taxonomy of Finfish (1+2)

4.1.1. Cypriniformes general characters

4.1.1 Order : Cypriniformes

Body oblong. Compressed, with small to large scales.

1. Head without scales.
2. Bony planes never developed.
3. Mouth usually protractile and always tooth less.
4. Jaws, palatine and prerygoid bones are tooth less.
5. Brandchiostegal rays usually three and no supra branchial organ.
6. Single dorsal fin. No adipose dorsal fin except in some nemachelins and cobitins.
7. Barbels present around the mouth (or) absent.
8. Weberian apparatus mostly modified.

 

In Cypriniformes consists of 5 important families

 

i) Cyprinidae (Carps, Minnows)

 

ii) Parapsilorhynchidae

 

iii) Balitoridae

 

iv) Cobitidae

 

v) Psilorhynchidae