Grass carp
Scientific name: Ctenopharyngodon idella (Valenciennes, 1844)
Overview
The grass carp is a species of large herbivorous freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae, native to the Pacific Far East, with a native range stretching from northern Vietnam to the Amur River on the Sino-Russian border. This Asian carp is the only species of the genus Ctenopharyngodon.
From the Wikipedia article “Grass carp”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Common names
Also known in English as grasscarp.
Names in other languages (10)
- Arabic
- مبروك الحشائش
- Bengali
- গ্রাস কার্প
- Chinese
- 池魚, 草根魚, 草魚, 草鱼, 鯇, 鯤
- French
- carpe de roseau, carpe herbivore
- German
- Gras Karpfen, Graskarpfen
- Indonesian
- Karper Rumput
- Japanese
- ソウギョ
- Persian
- آمور
- Russian
- Амур белый, Белый амур
- Spanish
- carpa herbívora
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: FishBase.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q76098, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Grass carp”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Hagerty, Ryan/USFWS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026