Cyprinoidei is a suborder, or superfamily, of mostly freshwater ray-finned fishes within the large

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Cypriniformes Cypriniformes is an order of ray-finned fish, which includes many families and genera of cyprinid ( carps and their kin) fish, such as barbs, loaches, botias, and minnows (among others). Cypriniformes is an "order-within-an-order", placed ...

. 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 Fitzinger, 1832 ** Family Paedocyprididae Mayden & W.J. Chen, 2010 (tiny carps) ** Family Psilorhynchidae Hora, 1926 (mountain carps) ** Family

Cyprinidae Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family, including the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives the barbs and barbels, among others. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family, and t ...

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, 1815 (carps) ** Family Sundadanionidae Mayden & Chen, 2010 (tiny danios) ** Family

Danionidae The danionins are a group of small, minnow-type fish belonging to the family Danionidae. Species of this group are in the genera clades ''Danio'' and '' Devario'' (which also includes ''Chela'', ''Laubuka'', ''Microdevario'', and ''Microrasbora ...

Bleeker, 1863 (danionids) ** Family Leptobarbidae Bleeker, 1864 (cigar barbs) ** Family

Xenocyprididae Xenocyprididae, is a family of freshwater ray-finned fishes commonly called the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies with a natural distribution in Asia. This taxon, sometimes spelt Xenocypridae, was previously regarded to be a subfamily, Xenocypri ...

Günther, 1868 (East Asian minnows or sharpbellies) ** Family Tincidae D. S. Jordan, 1878 (tenches) ** Family Acheilognathidae Bleeker, 1863 (bitterlings) ** Family

Gobionidae Gobioninae is a monophyletic family of Eurasian cyprinoid fishes. This is a species rich clade which, as a subfamily of the Cyprinidae was divided into five tribes: Gobionini, Pseudogobionini, Hemibarbini, Coreiini, and Sarcocheilichthyini. T ...

Bleeker, 1863 (freshwater gudgeons) ** Family Tanichthyidae Mayden & Chen, 2010 (mountain minnows) ** Family

Leuciscidae Leuciscidae is a family of freshwater ray-finned fishes, formerly classified as a subfamily of the Cyprinidae, which contains the true minnows. Members of the Old World (OW) clade of minnows within this subfamily are known as European minnow ...

Bonaparte, 1835 (minnows)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18669477 Cypriniformes Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger Ray-finned fish suborders