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Common names: Bighead, Pestryi tolstolob, пестрый толстолобик
Occurrence: introduced
Salinity: freshwater
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Aquaculture: commercial | Ref:
Regulations: restricted | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: This has been introduced to areas within the country for aquaculture and stocking in open waters. However, it failed to establish self-sustaining populations (Ref. 45022). Introduced to the Amur basin (Ref. 13397, 26334). Its natural reproduction is recorded in the Terek as well as in the Kuban and some other rivers (Ref. 26334). Also Ref. 1739, 9987. EurRus
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Reshetnikov, Y.S., N.G. Bogutskaya, E.D. Vasil'eva, E.A. Dorofeeva, A.M. Naseka, O.A. Popova, K.A. Savvaitova, V.G. Sideleva and L.I. Sokolov, 1997
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Carpe à grosse tête, Carpa cabezona, Толстолобик пестрый, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Cypriniformes (Carps) > Xenocyprididae (East Asian minnows)
Etymology: Hypophthalmichthys: Greek, hypo = under + Greek, ophthalmos = eye + Greek, ichthys = fish (Ref. 45335); nobilis: nobilis, meaning noble (Ref. 10294).
More on author: Richardson.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; brackish; benthopelagic; potamodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 0 - ? m (Ref. 59043). Temperate; 1°C - 38°C (Ref. 120904); 34°N - 21°N, 101°E - 123°E (Ref. 121042)

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Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (Richardson, 1845)

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology