Rutilus

Taxobox
name = Roaches

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = Roach, "Rutilus rutilus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Cypriniformes
familia = Cyprinidae
genus = "Rutilus"
genus_authority = Rafinesque, 1820
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Rutilus" (Latin for "ruddy") is a genus of fishes in the family Cyprinidae, commonly called roaches. Locally, the name "roach" without any further qualifiers is also used for particular species, particularly the Common Roach ("R. rutilus").

pecies

FishBase lists 17 species:
* "Rutilus arcasii" (Steindachner, 1866).
* Shirvan roachling, "Rutilus atropatenus" Derjavin, 1937.
* "Rutilus aula" (Bonaparte, 1841).
* "Rutilus basak" (Heckel, 1843).
* Black Sea roach, "Rutilus frisii" (Nordmann, 1840).
** Kutum, also known as Caspian White Fish or Caspian Roach, "Rutilus frisii Kutum" (Kamensky, 1901).
** "Rutilus frisii meidingerii" (Heckel, 1851).
* "Rutilus karamani" Fowler, 1977.
* "Rutilus lemmingii" (Steindachner, 1866).
* "Rutilus lusitanicus" (Collares-Pereira, 1980).
* "Rutilus ohridanus" (Karaman, 1924).
* "Rutilus panosi" Bogutskaya & Iliadou, 2006.
* Danube roach, "Rutilus pigus" (Lacépède, 1803).
* "Rutilus prespensis" (Karaman, 1924).
* "Rutilus rubilio" (Bonaparte, 1837).
* Common Roach, "Rutilus rutilus" (Linnaeus, 1758).
* "Rutilus sojuchbulagi" Abdurakhmanov, 1950.
* "Rutilus ylikiensis" Economidis, 1991.

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