Rutilus
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Rutilus is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Eurasia. This genus is a widely distributed lineage of cyprinids and ranges from West Europe to East Siberia.[1]
| Rutilus | |
|---|---|
| |
| Common roach (Rutilus rutilus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | Rutilus Rafinesque, 1820 |
| Type species | |
| Cyprinus rutilus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Species
In FishBase (2022), nine species are included in the genus:[1]
- Rutilus caspicus (Yakovlev, 1870) (Caspian roach)
- Rutilus frisii (Nordmann, 1840) (Black sea roach)
- Rutilus heckelii (Nordmann, 1840)
- Rutilus kutum (S. N. Kamensky, 1901) (Caspian kutum)
- Rutilus meidingeri (Heckel, 1851)
- Rutilus pigus (Lacépède, 1803) (Pigo)
- Rutilus rutilus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Common roach)
- Rutilus stoumboudae Bianco & Ketmaier, 2014[2]
- Rutilus virgo (Heckel, 1852) (Cactus roach)
In a phylogeographic study, Levin et al. (2017) argue that the Ponto-Caspian taxa including R. caspicus, R. heckelii and R. stoumboudae could represent a single widespread species whose range extends to Siberia, to be named Rutilus lacustris, whereas R. kutum is included in R. frisii. [3]
The genera Leucos and Sarmarutilus have been recently separated from Rutilus and are closely related to it.[2]
References
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