The Chinese Carp - Cyprinus carpio belongs to the family Cyprindidae. Its body is usually fairly deep and thick, colour bright, silvery yellow; tail fin large and well forked, anal fin short, dorsal fin long and concave comprising three or four single rays of which the last is thick and spinous and has seventeen to twenty two small soft rays. The mouth is terminal, the lips thick and capable of being projected forward, four barbels on the upper lip the two anterior short and thin and the two posterior are long and thick.