Rutilus is a genus of fish in the family Cyprinidae found in Eurasia. This genus is a widely distributed lineage of cyprinids and ranges from West Europe to East Siberia.[1]
Rutilus | |
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Common roach (Rutilus rutilus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cypriniformes |
Family: | Cyprinidae |
Subfamily: | Leuciscinae |
Genus: | Rutilus Rafinesque, 1820 |
Type species | |
Cyprinus rutilus Linnaeus, 1758
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In FishBase (2022), nine species are included in the genus:[1]
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. [3]
The genera Leucos and Sarmarutilus have been recently separated from Rutilus and are closely related to it.[2]