Common roach
Scientific name: Rutilus rutilus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Overview
The roach, or rutilus roach, also known as the common roach, is a fresh- and brackish-water fish of the family Cyprinidae, native to most of Europe and western Asia. Fish called roach can be any species of the genera Rutilus, Leucos and Hesperoleucus, depending on locality. The plural of the term is also roach.
From the Wikipedia article “Common roach”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Common names
Also known in English as roach.
Names in other languages (10)
- Arabic
- روش شائع
- Chinese
- 湖擬鯉
- French
- gardon
- German
- Plötze, Rotauge, Schwal
- Japanese
- ローチ
- Persian
- کلمه
- Portuguese
- Pardelha-dos-alpes
- Russian
- обыкновенная плотва, плотва или красноглазка, Плотва обыкновенная
- Spanish
- rutilo
- Turkish
- kizilgoz baligi, Kızılgöz
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: FishBase.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q182976, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Common roach”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Scardinius_erythropthalmus1_resize.jpg: Original uploader was Algirdas at lt.wikipedia derivative work: George Chernilevsky talk, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026