Scardinius racovitzai
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| Scardinius racovitzai | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Leuciscidae |
| Genus: | Scardinius |
| Species: | S. racovitzai |
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| Scardinius racovitzai G. J. Müller, 1958 | |
Scardinius racovitzai, Racovitza's rudd, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. This species is extinct in the wild and was formerly endemic to Romania.
Scardinius racovitzai was first formally described in 1958 by the Romanian biologist Geza Julius Müller with its type locality given as Thermal pond Petzea, near Oradea, tributary of Crișul Repede in western Romania.[2] This species belongs to the genus Scardinius, commonly referred to as rudds, which belongs to the subfamily Leuciscinae of the family Leuciscidae.[3]
Etymology
Scardinius racovitzai belongs to the genus Scardinius and this name is thought to be a latinisation of scardafa, a vernacular name in Italy, Rome in particular, for the Tiber rudd (Scardinius scardafa). The Specific name is an eponym and honours the Romanian cave biologist and zoologist Emil G. Racovitza, to mark the tenth anniversary of his death.[4]
