Cyprinoidei is a suborder, or superfamily, of primarily pelagic, freshwater ray-finned fishes within the larger order Cypriniformes. Many fishes in this group, which are readily found in aquaculture due to their hardiness, include the carps, danionins, and minnows.
Cyprinoidei was formerly a monotypic grouping only containing a single large family, the Cyprinidae, but this has now been divided into a number of many sister taxa.
Families
The following sister families are included within the Cyprinoidei:
- Suborder Cyprinoidei <small>Fitzinger, 1832</small>
- Family Paedocyprididae <small>Mayden & W.J. Chen, 2010</small> (tiny carps)
- Family Psilorhynchidae <small>Hora, 1926</small> (mountain carps)
- Family Cyprinidae <small>Rafinesque, 1815</small> (carps)
- Family Sundadanionidae <small>Mayden & Chen, 2010</small> (tiny danios)
- Family Danionidae <small>Bleeker, 1863</small> (danionids)
- Family Leptobarbidae <small>Bleeker, 1864</small> (cigar barbs)
- Family Xenocyprididae <small>Günther, 1868</small> (East Asian minnows or sharpbellies)
- Family Tincidae <small>D. S. Jordan, 1878</small> (tenches)
- Family Acheilognathidae <small>Bleeker, 1863</small> (bitterlings)
- Family Gobionidae <small>Bleeker, 1863</small> (freshwater gudgeons)
- Family Tanichthyidae <small>Mayden & Chen, 2010</small> (mountain minnows)
- Family Leuciscidae <small>Bonaparte, 1835</small> (true minnows)
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