Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Cypriniformes > Family Cyprinidae > Subfamily Acheilognathinae > Genus Rhodeus

Rhodeus amarus (Bloch, 1782)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Rhodeus*	Agassiz, 1832	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Cyprinus amarus*	Bloch, 1782	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: idhtaku sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Danish: bitterling sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: bittervoorn sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: bitterling sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Bitterling sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Μουρμουρίτσα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: kartuolė sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: Горчак европейский; европейский горчак sources: A.Boltachev & E. Karpova, IBSS NAS Ukraine;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: pezdirk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: acı balık sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: гірчак європейський sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: chwerwyn

Literature

original description	Bloch, M. E. (1782). M. Marcus Elieser Bloch's ..., ausübenden Arztes zu Berlin. Oekonomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands. 1(1-37): 1-128. Berlin.
basis of record	Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

FishBase images (Rhodeus amarus, Germany, by Zienert, S.)

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Rhodeus amarus (Bloch, 1782). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154331

Dr. Jorg Freyhof. Rhodeus amarus (Bloch, 1782). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/016b6cad-3478-4830-85a2-9502a52c5798