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Cyprinidae
white bream
Blicca bjoerkna
One Female Keeps Several Mates
- White
- Temperate
- Coastal
- Transcontinental
- Atlantic Ocean
- Europe
- Fusiform
- Medium
- Temperate fish
White
Temperate
Europe
Fusiform
Mediumwhite bream is a freshwater fish from Europe and Asia. It inhabits freshwater habitats. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 45.5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Blicca
- Maximum length
- 45.5 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Europe and Asia: North, Baltic, White, Black (south to Rioni drainage) and Caspian Sea basins, Atlantic basin southward to Adour drainage (France; possibly introduced southward of Loire) and Mediterranean basin in France (Hérault and Rhône drainages). In Aral, Marmara and Anatolian Black Sea basins west of Ankara. Naturally absent from Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Adriatic basin, Crimea, Great Britain (except southeast), Scandinavia north of Sundsvall (Sweden) and 65° N (Finland). Locally introduced in Spain and northeastern Italy; in France, apparently introduced in smal coastal drainages of Var.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
