An enzyme which catalyzes the hydrolysis of 5'-IMP to inosine and inorganic phosphate was solubilized from skeletal muscle of carp Cyprinus carpio with a detergent, Emulgen 109P, and was purified by ammonium sulfate fractionation, two steps of affinity chromatography on Concanavalin A-Sepharose and 5'-AMP Sepharose 4B. The purified enzyme was homogeneous on disc gel electrophoresis. An apparent molecular weight of the purified enzyme was estimated to be 24×104 by gel filtration with Sephadex G-200 in the presence of the detergent. The enzyme was found to be a 5'-nucleotidase (EC 3. 1. 3. 5) on the basis of its substrate specificity.