1 Common Carp at Latham, ACT
Identification history
| Cyprinus carpio | 26 Oct 2024 | Walker | ||
| Cyprinus carpio | 25 Oct 2024 | CarbonAI | ||
| Cyprinus carpio | 25 Oct 2024 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
One has a very distinctive scale pattern. Is this a disease or due to age?
3 comments
SteveBorkowskis
wrote:
25 Oct 2024
Hi Alison, it’s just a genetic scale variation referred to as mirror carp (in angling terms anyway). A bit like a person with blue eyes or curly hair.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.023852-35.215272
- Altitude 566.8m
- Maps Umbagong District Park
- Places Latham, ACT
Sighting information
- 5 Abundance
- 24 Oct 2024 11:03 AM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Fish Carp Exotic Fish AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- less than 1m Depth of sighting
Species information
- Cyprinus carpio Scientific name
- Common Carp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Major weed or pest
- Up to 821.96m Recorded at altitude
- 86 images trained Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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