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  9. ›Typical Carps
  10. ›Cyprinus
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IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Big-eye Carp

Cyprinus megalophthalmus

Cyprinus megalophthalmus is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Cyprinus that is endemic to Lake Erhai in China. There have been no records since the 1980s and it is possibly extinct.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 612665.