A small freshwater fish native to most of Europe and western Asia, absent only around the Mediterranean, with its range extending east into Siberia and around the Caspian and Black Seas. It has a bluish-silvery body that whitens toward the belly, red fins, and a distinctive red spot in the iris above the pupil; young fish are slender while older individuals grow a higher, broader body. It is highly adaptable, living in almost any freshwater habitat from small ponds to large rivers and lakes, and tolerates brackish water, organic pollution and a wide temperature range. Its diet shifts from plankton as a juvenile to a broad mix of plant material, worms and bottom-dwelling invertebrates as an adult.
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Child Taxon Of
In Biome
Lake, Biomes Source Wikipedia: Common Roach
In Ecosystem
Source Wikidata: European Perch
Additional Source Caspian Sea (Wikipedia)Article text
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Common Roach
Wikipedia- Wikidata Q182976 (P225 taxon name)
Distribution
It was introduced in Australia in the Murray River and coastal drainages of southern New South Wales and Victoria from Europe during the 1860s and 1880s for sport purposes.
Diet and feeding
The common roach eats a wide range of foods, from plant material, bottom-dwelling (benthic) invertebrates, to worms and maggots.
Infobox: status
LC
In Biome: Lake, Ecology
The common roach is very adaptable and can be found in any freshwater ecosystem, ranging from small ponds to the largest rivers and lakes.
View the Source 2. GBIF Species API
3. Common Roach (Wikidata)
WikidataStatements section, conservation status (P141)
Wikidata Q182976: least concern (P141).
- Child Taxon Of: Rutilus, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
View the Source 4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Cypriniformes
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 110Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 110
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UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Cyprinidae
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 325Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 325
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Caspian Sea (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIn Ecosystem: Caspian Sea, Article textQuote, In Ecosystem: Caspian Sea, Article text
Most non-endemic natives are either shared with the Black Sea basin or widespread Palearctic species such as crucian carp, Prussian carp, common carp, common bream, common bleak, asp, white bream, sunbleak, common dace, common roach, common rudd, European chub, sichel, tench, European weatherfish, wels catfish, northern pike, burbot, European perch and zander.
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