Rutilus
Rutilus | |
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Common roach (Rutilus rutilus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | Rutilus Rafinesque, 1820 |
Type species | |
Cyprinus rutilus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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]
Species
There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus:
Rutilus frisii (Nordmann, 1840)
Rutilus kutum (S. N. Kamensky, 1901) (Caspian kutum)
Rutilus lacustris (Pallas, 1814) [2]
Rutilus meidingeri (Heckel, 1851)
Rutilus pigus (Lacépède, 1803) (Pigo)
Rutilus rutilus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Common roach)
Rutilus virgo (Heckel, 1852) (Cactus roach)
References
^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2016). Species of Rutilus in FishBase. October 2016 version.
^ Levin, B.A., Simonov, E.P., Ermakov, O.A., Levina, M.A., Interesova, E.A., Kovalchuk, O.M., Malinina, Y.A., Mamilov, N.S., Mustafayev, N.J., Pilin, D.V., Pozdeev, I.V., Prostakov, N.I., Roubenyan, H.R., Titov, S.V. & Vekhov, D.A. (2017): Phylogeny and phylogeography of the roaches, genus Rutilus (Cyprinidae), at the Eastern part of its range as inferred from mtDNA analysis. Hydrobiologia, 788 (1): 33–46.
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