Alexander, Timothy;Seehausen, Ole
Rutilus
Sign in to saveAlso known as roach
Rutilus, commonly known as roaches, is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. This genus is a widely distributed lineage of leuciscids and ranges from West Europe to East Siberia.
Species
gardon
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCypriniformes
- FamilyCyprinidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 115
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Collections
- USNM, CAS, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, FMNH, ANSP, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Montenegro, Spain, United States, Belgium, Russia, France, Greece
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Etymology
- Species
- Characteristics
- Distribution
- References
Rutilus, commonly known as roaches, is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. This genus is a widely distributed lineage of leuciscids and ranges from West Europe to East Siberia.
==Taxonomy== Rutilus was first proposed as a genus in 1820 by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque with Cyprinus rutilus designated as the type species but also the type species by absolute tautonymy. Cyprinus rutilus was first formally described in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus with "European lakes" given as the type locality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rutilus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.