Rutilus
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Rutilus
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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).
Species
There are currently 12 recognized species in the genus: [1]
- Rutilus caspicus Yakovlev, 1870 (Caspian roach)
- Rutilus frisii Nordmann, 1840 (Black Sea roach)
- Rutilus karamani Fowler, 1977 (Albanian roach)
- 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
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