Rutilus
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| Common roach, Rutilus rutilus | |
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| Genus: | Rutilus Rafinesque, 1820
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Rutilus (Latin for "shining, red, golden, auburn") is a genus of fishes in the family Cyprinidae, commonly called roaches. Locally, the name "roach" without any further qualifiers is also used for particular species, particularly the common roach (R. rutilus). The genus was recently revised, and several species were then removed to a related genus Leucos and one to the monotypic Sarmarutilus.[1]
Species
The recognized species in the genus are: [1][2]
- Rutilus caspicus Yakovlev, 1870 (Caspian roach)
- Rutilus frisii (Nordmann, 1840) (Black Sea roach)
- Rutilus heckelii (Nordmann, 1840)
- Rutilus kutum Kamensky, 1901 (Caspian kutum)
- Rutilus meidingerii Heckel, 1851 (perlfish)
- Rutilus pigus Lacépède, 1803 (pigo)
- Rutilus rutilus Linnaeus, 1758 (common roach)
- Rutilus stoumboudae Bianco & Ketmaier, 2014 [1]
- Rutilus virgo Heckel, 1852 (cactus roach)
References
- ^ a b c Bianco, P.G., Ketmaier, V. (2014). A revision of the Rutilus complex from Mediterranean Europe with description of a new genus, Sarmarutilus, and a new species, Rutilus stoumboudae (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 3841 (3): 379–402.
- ^ Species in Rutilus FishBase 2016
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