Rutilus
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Roach ( Rutilus rutilus ) |
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| Rafinesque , 1820 |
Rutilus ( Latin: reddish, referring to the color) is a genus from the carp family. Their distribution area extends over Europe, West and North Asia. These are fish with an elongated body that is clearly compressed at the sides, the height of which increases with advancing age. The small mouth is terminal or below and has no barbels. The sideline is completely curved towards the abdomen. Medium to large scales cover the body.
The genus differs from the closely related and very similar genus Scardinius by the dorsal fin that begins directly above the pelvic fins and the rounded, uncut belly between the pelvic fins and anal fin.
Although they are mostly freshwater fish , some species can also live in brackish water . These populations migrate upstream at spawning time.
Systematics
- Genus Rutilus Rafinesque, 1820
- Rutilus albus Mari, 2010
- Dalmatian dwarf chub ( Rutilus aula ) (Bonaparte, 1841)
- Rutilus basak (Heckel, 1843)
- Rutilus caspicus (Yakovlev, 1870)
- Black Sea Roach ( Rutilus frisii ) (Nordmann, 1840)
- Rutilus heckelii (Nordmann, 1840)
- Rutilus kutum (Kamensky, 1901)
- Pearlfish ( Rutilus meidingerii ) (Heckel, 1851)
- Rutilus panosi Bogutskaya & Iliadou, 2006
- Lady Nerfling ( Rutilus pigus ) (Lacepède, 1803)
- Roach or roach ( Rutilus rutilus ) (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Rutilus stoumboudae Bianco & Ketmaier, 2014
- Rutilus virgo (Heckel, 1852)
- Rutilus ylikiensis Economidis, 1991
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literature
- Axel Zarske: Rutilus and Scardinius. In: Claus Schaefer, Torsten Schröer (Hrsg.): The large lexicon of aquaristics. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-7497-9 , pp. 866 and 876.
- Günter Sterba: Freshwater fish of the world , Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-89350-991-7 .
