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 Leuciscinae > Genus Scardinius

Scardinius erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Cyprinus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Scardinius*	Bonaparte, 1837	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: çafri; lloska pendëkuqe 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: rudskalle sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: rietvoorn; ruisvoorn sources: Spikmans, F.; Kranenbarg, J.; Veenvliet, P.; van Emmerik, W.; Roos, M.; Kouwets, F.; Verreycken, H.; de Ruiter, R.; Buijse, T. (2019). Standaardlijst namen zoetwatervissen van Nederland en Vlaanderen anno 2019. RAVON. 72(1): 8-12.

English: rudd sources: Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A): 1-37

German: Rotblei; Rötel; Rotfeder; unechtes Rotauge sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

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

Norwegian Bokmål: sørv sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: sørv sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: wzdręga sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: Красноперка обыкновенная sources: A.Boltachev & E. Karpova, IBSS NAS Ukraine

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

Spanish, Castillian: escardinio; gardí sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: sarv sources: Dyntaxa. (2013). Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].

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

Ukrainian: Краснопірка звичайна; Червонопірка sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: pysgodyn rhudd

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
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.
additional source	Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
additional source	King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.
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 (Scardinius erythrophthalmus, Germany, by Zienert, S.)

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Scardinius erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758). 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:154165

Dr. Jorg Freyhof. Scardinius erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/f3f98717-13c2-4a4e-b8bf-230ea8361a94