Rutilus virgo (Heckel, 1852)

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

Rutilus virgo (Heckel, 1852)

A native, relatively localized freshwater species, found in rivers in the montane and hill area, found in the Tur river ( Bănărescu 1964; Polyák et al. 2022), apparently extending from a contiguous population in the Hungarian sector of the same river ( Wilhelm 2008; Sallai & Juhás, 2021; Polyák et al. 2022), and was recorded in the Stânca-CosteȘti reservoir, which is common to Romania and the Republic of Moldova, by researchers from the latter country ( Bulat et al. 2022). It is also mentioned as being currently found in the Danube above the Iron Gates ( Živaljević et al. 2017) but was not recorded from the Romanian side until 2025 when a specimen was caught at Svinița (Togor, A., 2025, via Ichthyology of Romania Facebook group; Fig. 2 ).

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FIGURE 2. Rutilus virgo, breeding male, captured (and released), Danube at Svinița, April 2025, still frame from film by Andrei Togor (used here with permission).