Rutilus frisii (Nordmann, 1840)

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

Rutilus frisii (Nordmann, 1840)

A native, relatively localized brackish-water/anadromous species, living in the north Pontic shallow, freshened marine areas and associated drainages; in Romania, one nineteenth century record from the lower Danube (Nordmann 1840, ap. Antipa 1909), one from the “Danube mouths” in 1939 and one more record (1956) in the Razim lagoon ( Leonte & Ruga 1956; Bănărescu 1964; Oțel 2007; Cocan & MireȘan 2018); said to appear sporadically in the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta ( Bănăduc et al. 2023a) . Archeological Mesolithic records show that the species anciently used to ascend the Danube at least up to the Iron Gates area ( Živaljević et al. 2017; BălăȘescu et al. 2022).