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Cyprinidae
bronze bream
Abramis brama
Slow water shoals that survive out of water
- Temperate
- Upper river
- Transcontinental
- Europe
- West Asia
- Fusiform
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Europe
Fusiform
Largebronze bream is a freshwater fish from Europe and Asia. It inhabits freshwater habitats. The largest recorded length is 82 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Abramis
- Maximum length
- 82 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Europe and Asia: most European drainages from Adour (France) to Pechora (White Sea basin); Aegean Sea basin, in Lake Volvi and Struma and Maritza drainages. Naturally absent from Iberian Peninsula, Adriatic basin, Italy, Scotland, Scandinavia north of Bergen (Norway) and 67°N (Finland). Locally introduced in Ireland, Spain and northeastern Italy. In Asia, from Marmara basin (Turkey) and eastward to Aral basin. Introduced in Lake Baikal and upper Ob and Yenisei drainages.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Family
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