Scardinius Bonaparte, 1837

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Scardinius Bonaparte, 1837

Genus Scardinius Bonaparte, 1837 consists of 10 extant taxa (FishBase, 2014; Ketmaier et al., 2004), including one species from the territory of Ukraine ( Movchan, 2011). The Rudd remnants were firstly appeared in the fossil record in the Middle Miocene — Scardinius tchuensis Sytchevskaya, 1989 from the Tueryk locality in Russia ( Sytchevskaya, 1989), Scardinius sp. from the Baghmisheh-Marzdaran in Iran ( Reichenbacher et al., 2011), and also Scardinius cf. sp. from Unggeried in Germany and Mataschen, Steiermark in Austria (Böhme, 2003; Schultz, 2004). Besides, three extinct Rudd species ( Scardinius haueri ( Münster, 1842) , Scardinius prolixus Schtylko, 1934 , and Scardinius longipinnus Sytchevskaya, 1989 ) were described from the Late Miocene strata of Europe and Asia ( Münster, 1842; Schtylko, 1934; Sytchevskaya, 1989). It should be noted, that five taxa of the Scardinius genus were identified in the Late Miocene of Southern Ukraine. One of them is described here as a new species.