''Rutilus'' is a
genus
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of
fish
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in the
family
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Cyprinidae
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found in
Eurasia
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. This genus is a widely
distributed lineage of cyprinids and
ranges from
West Europe to
East Siberia.
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, 1840) (Black sea roach)
* '' Rutilus heckelii'' (Nordmann, 1840)
* '' Rutilus kutum'' (S. N. Kamensky, 1901) (Caspian kutum)
* '' Rutilus meidingeri'' ( Heckel, 1851)
* '' Rutilus pigus'' ( Lacépède, 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
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, 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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