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Cyprinidae
Black Sea roach
Rutilus frisii
Seventy Centimeters Carp of European Waters
- Temperate
- Regional distribution
- Fusiform
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Fusiform
LargeDo not confuse it with another fish called the kutum, Rutilus kutum Rutilus frisii, the Black Sea roach or kutum, is a species of freshwater and brackish water ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. This fish is found in the Black Sea basin in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Rutilus
- Maximum length
- 70 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eurasia: Black and Azov Sea basins, absent from Danube and Kuban drainages; landloacked populations in Don, resulting from dam construction; Caspian basin from Terek to Atrek drainages, very rarely in northern Caspian basin (Volga [earlier up to Perm], Ural); Lake Iznik in Sea of Marmara basin in Anatolia.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
