''Scardinius graecus'', also called the Greek rudd or Yliki rudd, is a species of

cyprinid Cyprinidae is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or minnow family. It includes the carps, the true minnows, and relatives like the barbs and barbels. Cyprinidae is the largest and most diverse fish family and the largest verte ...

fish, only known from a single lake,

Lake Yliki Lake Yliki ( el, Υλίκη ''Yliki'', Ancient Greek: Ὑλίκη ''Hylike'', Latinised as ''Hylica'') is a large natural lake of Boeotia, central Greece. Situated 8 km north of Thebes at 78 m elevation, it has been an important source of drinking ...

, in

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

. The other known population, in

Lake Paralimni Lake Paralimni ( el, Λίμνη Παραλίμνι, ''Limne Paralimni'', Latinised as ''Lacus Paralimnus''), formerly named Lake Ougria, Latinized to Uggria, is the easternmost of an east-west sequence of three ancient lakes in Central Greece that ...

, disappeared after the lake had been drained. This fish is classified as critically endangered.

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* Scardinius Fish described in 1937 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Alexander I. Stephanidis {{Leuciscinae-stub