''Rutilus'' is a
genus of
fish in the
family Cyprinidae
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 ...
found in
Eurasia. This genus is a widely
distributed lineage of cyprinids and
ranges
In the Hebrew Bible and in the Old Testament, the word ranges has two very different meanings.
Leviticus
In Leviticus 11:35, ranges probably means a cooking furnace for two or more pots, as the Hebrew word here is in the dual number; or perhaps ...
from
West Europe to
East Siberia
Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive region, geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a ...
.
Species
In
FishBase
FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish). It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web. (2022), nine species are included in the genus:
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* '' Rutilus caspicus'' (Yakovlev, 1870) (Caspian roach)
* '' Rutilus frisii'' (]Nordmann Nordmann is the demonym of the Norwegian people in its native language (see: Norman).
It is also a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alexander von Nordmann (1803–1866), Finnish zoologist
* Armand von Nordmann (1759–1809), Aus ...
, 1840) (Black sea roach)
* '' Rutilus heckelii'' (Nordmann, 1840)
* '' Rutilus kutum'' (S. N. Kamensky, 1901) (Caspian kutum)
* '' Rutilus meidingeri'' ( Heckel, 1851)
* '' Rutilus pigus'' (Lacépède Lacepede can refer to:
* Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756–1825), French naturalist and politician.
* Lacepede Bay, a bay in South Australia.
* Lacépède, Lot-et-Garonne, a ''commune'' in France
* Lacepede Islands, a group of four islands in t ...
, 1803) (Pigo)
* '' Rutilus rutilus'' ( Linnaeus, 1758) (Common roach)
* '' Rutilus stoumboudae Bianco & Ketmaier, 2014
* '' Rutilus virgo'' ( Heckel, 1852) (Cactus roach)
In a phylogeographic study, Levin et al. (2017) argue that the Ponto-Caspian taxa including ''R. caspicus'', ''R. heckelii'' and ''R. stoumboudae'' could represent a single widespread species whose range extends to Siberia, to be named '' Rutilus lacustris'', whereas ''R. kutum'' is included in ''R. frisii''.
[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.''
The genera '' Leucos'' and '' Sarmarutilus'' have been recently separated from ''Rutilus'' and are closely related to it.[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.
References
Cyprinidae genera
Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
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