Relating to or belonging to the order Cypriniformes, a large group of ray-finned fish that includes carp, minnows, loaches, and tetras.
From cyprinid (noun) plus -form (meaning 'shaped like' or 'of the form of'), a common suffix in taxonomic terminology for higher-order groupings.
Cypriniformes is so massive and diverse that it contains nearly 1 in 10 of all vertebrate species on Earth—from tiny neon tetras in aquariums to massive Chinese carp, all unified by subtle skeletal features and evolutionary history rather than appearance.
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