Koi · Domesticated carp whose Niigata colour mutations became a global pond aesthetic -- not a wild goldfish substitute.
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Asturio Cantabrio · CC BY-SA 4.0
The brocaded carp as a named aesthetic.
Nishikigoi (ornamental Cyprinus, Japan) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Terrace ponds that fixed kohaku lines.
Yamakoshi / Niigata (origin villages, Japan) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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White-and-red foundation pattern.
Kohaku (show class, Japan) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Hobby body that wrote modern show rules.
Zen Nippon Airinkai (ZNA, Japan) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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The calendar that prices a champion.
All Japan Koi Show (championship, Japan) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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George Chernilevsky · CC BY-SA 3.0
Warm-water volume beside Niigata prestige.
Israeli koi farms (1970s-, Israel) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Origin ponds wrecked and rebuilt as heritage.
Chuetsu earthquake recovery (2004, Japan) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Pierre-Étienne Nataf · CC BY-SA 3.0
Impressionist water garden often mislabelled as a koi origin.
Monet Giverny pond (cultural cross-read, France) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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A judged kohaku is a cultural object. The same species in a river is a management problem.
Show prestige stays Japanese. Most swimming koi are now grown elsewhere.
Apex lamnid whose warm muscle, broad diet and 1975 cinema still outrun the tagging papers.
Overall 66 🐟Anadromous fishes that move ocean fat onto spawning gravels -- and into forests, treaties and hydropower fights.
Overall 63 🐟A warm-bodied tuna whose Tokyo auction prices and ICCAT quotas made a single fish into a geopolitical unit.
Overall 54 🐠Anemone-dwelling damselfish whose 2003 film fame became a capture-and-reef case study.
Overall 41 🐴Upright syngnathids whose male pregnancy and dried-medicine trade made a small fish a CITES case.
Overall 28 🐡Beak-toothed inflators whose tetrodotoxin made a Japanese cuisine and a genome project out of one family.
Overall 41 ⚡Amazon knifefishes whose stacked electrocytes taught Humboldt, Volta arguments and a 2019 species split.
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