Rutilus
| Rutilus | |
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| Common roach (Rutilus rutilus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
| Genus: | Rutilus Rafinesque, 1820 |
| Type species | |
| Cyprinus rutilus Linnaeus, 1758
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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]
Species
Species within the genus include:
- Rutilus caspicus (Yakovlev, 1870) (Caspian roach)
- Rutilus frisii (Nordmann, 1840)
- Rutilus kutum (S. N. Kamensky, 1901) (Caspian kutum)
- Rutilus heckelii (Nordmann, 1840)[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 Pauly, Daniel, 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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