Sarmarutilus rubilio
Sarmarutilus is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. The only species in this genus is Sarmarutilus rubilio, known as the rovella, South European roach or the Apennine roach, a species endemic to the Italian peninsula.
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Sarmarutilus is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. The only species in this genus is Sarmarutilus rubilio, known as the rovella, South European roach or the Apennine roach, a species endemic to the Italian peninsula.
==Taxonomy== Sarmarutilus was first proposed as a genus in 2014 by Pier Giorgio Bianco and Valerio Ketmaier with Leuciscus rubilio being its type species by monotypy. L. rubilio was first formally described in 1837 by the French art collector and biologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with its type locality given as Lake Nemi. L. rubilio was subsequently classified in the genus Rutilus but was which was reclassified in 2014 into the new monotypic Sarmarutilus. This lineage is thought to have originated in the Sarmatic Sea in the Middle Miocene and reached the Mediterranean area during the Lago Mare phase, and then survived only in the Tuscany-Latium district.
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