#2075 · 🐟 fish
Common Rudd
🇳🇱 Ruisvoorn ·Scardinius erythrophthalmus
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what is it?
The common rudd Scardinius erythrophthalmus is a bentho-pelagic freshwater fish, widely spread in Europe and middle Asia, around the basins of the North, Baltic, Black, Caspian and Aral seas.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 208 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #4 most seen of the fish in NL.
- 6,688 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Rudd
- Nederlands
- Ruisvoorn
- scientific name
- Scardinius erythrophthalmus
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Cypriniformes
- family
- Leuciscidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 208
- sightings in Europe
- 5,091
- sightings worldwide
- 6,688
- GBIF records in NL
- 65,235
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 112118, Wikidata Q200594, GBIF 2362635, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.