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Invasive Carps Photo Gallery

By Columbia Environmental Research Center

Invasive Carps Photo Gallery

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picture of silver carps
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Three sizes of juvenile Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix.
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photo of a silver and bighead carps
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Comparison of Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (top) and Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (bottom) of about 80–110 millimeters total length.

 

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picture of a silver carp
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Juvenile Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix of about 70 millimeters total length.
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picture of a grass carp
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Juvenile Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella of about 70 millimeters total length

 

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photo of invasive carps
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Comparison of juvenile Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (top left), Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella (top right), Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (bottom left), and Black Carp Mylopharyngodon piceus (bottom right) of about 80–100 millimeters total length
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picture of a black and grass carp
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Comparison of juvenile Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella (top) and Black Carp Mylopharyngodon piceus (bottom) of about 80 millimeters total length.

 

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picture of black carp
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:  Juvenile Black Carp Mylopharyngodon piceus of about 100 millimeters total length
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photo a a bighead carp
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Juvenile Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis of about 100 millimeters total length

 

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picture of bighead and silver carp
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Comparison of juvenile Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (top) and Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (bottom) of about 150–200 millimeters total length.
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photo of invasive carps
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Comparison of juvenile Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (top left), Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella (top right), Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (bottom left), and Black Carp Mylopharyngodon piceus (bottom right) of about 200 millimeters total length.

 

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picture of a grass and black carp
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Comparison of Juvenile Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella (top) and Black Carp Mylopharyngodon piceus (bottom) of about 200 millimeters total length
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photo of black carp
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Juvenile Black Carp Mylopharyngodon piceus about 200 millimeters total length

 

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photo of bighead carp
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Juvenile Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis about 200 millimeters total length
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photo of silver carp
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Juvenile Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix greater than 200 millimeters total length

 

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photo of black carp
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Juvenile Black Carp Mylopharyngodon piceus greater than 200 millimeters total length
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photo of Bighead Carp and Silver Carp
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Comparison of juvenile Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis and Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix

 

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photo of juvenile Bighead Carp
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Juvenile Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis less than 400 millimeters total length.
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photo of grass carps
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Three sizes of juvenile Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella.

 

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