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Tinca tinca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Cypriniformes
family
Cyprinidae
genus
Tinca
species
Tinca tinca

Name

Synonyms
Cyprinus tinca Linnaeus, 1758
Cyprinus tinca auratus Bloch, 1782
Cyprinus tincaauratus Bloch, 1782
Cyprinus tincaurea Shaw, 1804
Cyprinus zeelt Lacepède, 1803
Leuciscus communis Swainson, 1839
Tinca aurea Gmelin, 1788
Tinca chrysitis Fitzinger, 1832
Tinca communis Swainson, 1839
Tinca italica Bonaparte, 1836
Tinca limosa Koch, 1840
Tinca linnei Malm, 1877
Tinca vulgaris Fleming, 1828
Tinca vulgaris Valenciennes, 1842
Tinca vulgaris cestellae Segre, 1904
Tinca vulgaris maculata Costa, 1838
Tinca vulgaris var. cestellae Segre, 1904
Homonyms
Tinca tinca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common names
Aiguillons in French
Alia in German
Compó in Hungarian
Curaman in Irish
Doctor Fish in English
Green Tench in English
Grunnungur in Icelandic
Kadife baligi in Turkish
Lin in Romanian
Lin in Polish
Lindare in Swedish
Linis in Macedonian
Linj in Slovenian
Linjak in Serbian
Linë in Albanian
Lín obecný in Czech
Schlei in German
Schlei in German
Schlei in language.
Schleie in German
Schleie in German
Schleie in language.
Schleie in French
Schleie in language.
Schleie in language.
Schleie in German
Schleie in German
Schleie in language.
Schleie in German
Schleie in German
Schleie in German
Schleih in German
Schlien in German
Schlien in language.
Slia in German
Slia in language.
Suder in Danish
Suder in Danish
Sudre in Norwegian
Sutare in Swedish
Suter in Norwegian
Suutari in Finnish
Tanche in French
Tanche in French
Tanche in language.
Tanche in language.
Tanche in French
Tanche in French
Tanche in language.
Tenca in Portuguese

Bibliographic References

  1. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
  2. Eigenmann 1928, Mann 1954, De Buen 1959b, Campos 1970a, Dazarola 1972, Bahamonde & Pequeño 1975, 1989, Arratia 1981, Ruiz & Marchant 2004, Iriarte et al. 2005.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  4. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
  5. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
  6. 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. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554.
  7. 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.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
  8. 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. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  9. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  10. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
  11. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.
  12. Van Emmerik, W.A.M. & De Nie, H.W. (2005)
  13. WoRMS Editorial Board (2010) WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species
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