Rutilus lacustris (Pallas 1814)

Iftime, Alexandru & Oţel, Vasile, 2025, An annotated systematical checklist of the Romanian ichthyofauna, Zootaxa 5654 (1), pp. 1-64 : 16

Rutilus lacustris (Pallas 1814)

A native, relatively localized brackish-water/anadromous species, living in the northern Pontic shallow, freshened marine areas and associated drainages; in Romania, sporadically found in the sea and the Razim lagoon system, ascending the Danube and probably the Prut ( Popescu & Ruga 1956; Bănărescu 1964; Usatâi, 2004; Alexandrov et al. 2004; Freyhof & Kottelat 2007; Ion et al. 2009; Gheorghe et al. 2010; Cocan & MireȘan 2018 —all as R. heckelii (Nordmann, 1840) . Levin et al. (2017) showed that R. heckelii is a synonym.