Rutilus Rafinesque, 1820

Kovalchuk, O. М., 2014, New Extinct Carp Fish Species (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) From The Late Neogene Of Southeastern Europe, Vestnik Zoologii 48 (5), pp. 411-418 : 412

Rutilus Rafinesque, 1820

Genus Rutilus Rafinesque, 1820 includes 17 recent species (FishBase, 2014), three of which are found in the water bodies of Ukraine and Moldova ( Movchan, 2011). The earliest members of the genus are known from the Oligocene of Mongolia ( Sytchevskaya, 1989) and Spain ( Cabrera, Gaudant, 1985). According to the molecular data, these fishes colonized the Europe near 35 mya (Ketmaier et al., 2008). Several Roach species were described from the Miocene and Pliocene strata of Europe and Asia: Rutilus pachecri ( Gaudant, 1984) , Rutilus tungurukensis ( Sytchevskaya, 1989) , Rutilus oswaldi ( Bogachev, 1938) , and also numerous remnants of Rutilus cf. rutilus , Rutilus cf. frisii , Rutilus sp. ( Böhme, Ilg, 2003). It is safe to say, that five species of the Rutilus genus have been identified in the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene of Ukraine and Moldova. Here we describe a new fossil Roach, which seems to be close to the Rutilus frisii (Nordmann, 1840) .