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Common carp

Cyprinus carpio

Photo by BrunoMoller
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Field Notes

Description:

•They are omnivorous, eating water plants, insects, crustaceans and benthic worms.
•They were introduced to most continents and is often considered a very distructive invasive species.
•The female can lay 300,000 eggs in a single spawn.

Habitat:

Large bodies of slow or standing water and soft vegetative sediments, fresh or brackish water
-I saw this carp in São Paulo(SP, Brazil)

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