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Cyprinoidei
Cyprinoidei is a suborder, or superfamily, of mostly freshwater Actinopterygii, ray-finned fishes within the large order (biology), order Cypriniformes. Cyprinoidei was formerly a monotypic grouping only containing a single large family, the Cyprinidae but this has now been divided into a number of different families. Families The following families are included within the Cyprinoidei: * Suborder Cyprinoidei Leopold Fitzinger, Fitzinger, 1832 ** Family Paedocyprididae Richard L. Mayden, Mayden & Wei-Jen Chen, W.J. Chen, 2010 (tiny carps) ** Family Psilorhynchidae Sunder Lal Hora, Hora, 1926 (mountain carps) ** Family Cyprinidae Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Rafinesque, 1815 (carps) ** Family Sundadanionidae Mayden & Chen, 2010 (tiny danios) ** Family Danionidae Pieter Bleeker, Bleeker, 1863 (danionids) ** Family Leptobarbidae Bleeker, 1864 (cigar barbs) ** Family Xenocyprididae Albert Günther, Günther, 1868 (East Asian minnows or sharpbellies) ** Family Tincidae David Starr Jorda ...
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