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Белый амур

English translation: Grass Carp


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Russian term or phrase:Белый амур
English translation:Grass Carp
Entered by: Jarema
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Russian term or phrase: Белый амур
без контекста, скорее всего это рыба
B R
Grass Carp
Explanation:
http://fish-news.teia.org/rus-eng.htm

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Note added at 2002-09-06 12:34:44 (GMT)
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http://nas.er.usgs.gov/fishes/accounts/cyprinid/ct_idell.htm...
Ctenopharyngodon idella (Valenciennes 1844)


Common Names: grass carp (white amur).

Identification: Distinguishing characteristics were given in Berg (1949), Shireman and Smith (1983), and Page and Burr (1991). Keys that include this species and photographs or illustrations were provided in most of the more recently published state and regional fish books (e.g., Robison and Buchanan 1988; Etnier and Starnes 1993; Jenkins and Burkhead 1994; Pflieger 1997). A few authors present scientific name as Ctenopharyngodon idellus. Maximum size: 125 cm.

Native Range: Eastern Asia from the Amur River of eastern Russia and China south to West River of southern China (Lee et al. 1980 et seq.; Shireman and Smith 1983).
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Jarema
Ukraine
Local time: 04:32
Grading comment
Классная ссылка!
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3Grass Carp
Jarema
5 +2Grass CarpLudwig Chekhovtsov
5 +2Grass carp
AndreiG
5 +2white amur / grass capJacek Krankowski
5Юрию Гейфману: Hypophthalmichthys molitrix = толстолобикmarfus
5Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix)
Yuri Geifman


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Grass Carp


Explanation:
http://fish-news.teia.org/rus-eng.htm

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Note added at 2002-09-06 12:34:44 (GMT)
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http://nas.er.usgs.gov/fishes/accounts/cyprinid/ct_idell.htm...
Ctenopharyngodon idella (Valenciennes 1844)


Common Names: grass carp (white amur).

Identification: Distinguishing characteristics were given in Berg (1949), Shireman and Smith (1983), and Page and Burr (1991). Keys that include this species and photographs or illustrations were provided in most of the more recently published state and regional fish books (e.g., Robison and Buchanan 1988; Etnier and Starnes 1993; Jenkins and Burkhead 1994; Pflieger 1997). A few authors present scientific name as Ctenopharyngodon idellus. Maximum size: 125 cm.

Native Range: Eastern Asia from the Amur River of eastern Russia and China south to West River of southern China (Lee et al. 1980 et seq.; Shireman and Smith 1983).



    Reference: http://fish-news.teia.org/rus-eng.htm
Jarema
Ukraine
Local time: 04:32
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
PRO pts in pair: 408
Grading comment
Классная ссылка!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ludwig Chekhovtsov
3 mins

agree  AndreiG
4 mins

agree  marfus
5 mins
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
white amur / grass cap


Explanation:
... White Amur (Grass carp) is a natural inhabitant of the flatland rivers of China and the middle and lower reaches of river Amur in the USSR and the fish has ...
ag.arizona.edu/aes/mac/white_amur.htm

Jacek Krankowski
PRO pts in pair: 51

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ludwig Chekhovtsov: Grass caRp
3 mins

agree  marfus
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Grass carp


Explanation:
Род: Ctenopharyngodon Steindachner
Семейство: Cyprinidae
Отряд: Cypriniformes
Класс: Actinopterygii (Osteichthyes)

Названия:
Grass carp (English)
Белый амур (Russian)




    uznix.narod.ru/sci/fkey/ctenopha.html
AndreiG
Ukraine
Local time: 04:32
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
PRO pts in pair: 8

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agree  Ludwig Chekhovtsov
3 mins

agree  marfus
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Grass Carp


Explanation:
It is.

Ludwig Chekhovtsov
Canada
Local time: 21:32
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PRO pts in pair: 217

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agree  AndreiG
3 mins

agree  marfus
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix)


Explanation:
I recently did some research on a whole bunch of fish... donb't remeber the web site where I found this (comes from my glossary)

Yuri Geifman
Canada
Local time: 21:32
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 389

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  marfus: some kind of mistake, i guess
2 mins
  -> I guess :-)
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Юрию Гейфману: Hypophthalmichthys molitrix = толстолобик


Explanation:
тоже в Амуре живет преимущественно, так что Вы не так уж сильно промахнулись.
Занесите в свои нотатки: пригодится
:-]

Ваш
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marfus
United States
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