| White Amur bream | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Cultrinae |
| Genus: | Parabramis Bleeker, 1865 [2] |
| Species: | P. pekinensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Parabramis pekinensis (Basilewsky, 1855) [2] | |
| Synonyms [3] | |
Abramis pekinensisBasilewsky, 1855 | |
The white Amur bream (Parabramis pekinensis) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies [2] This is the only species in the monospecific genus Parabramis. [3] It is native to eastern Asia, where found from the Amur River basin in Russia south to Ningbo and Shanghai in China. [4] It is an important food fish, [4] and has been introduced to regions outside its native range. [1]
The species was originally described as Abramis pekinensis by the Russian physician, zoologist and ichthyologist Stepan Ivanovich Basilewsky with its type locality given as the rivers flowing into Tschili Bay. [3] In 1865 Pieter Bleeker proposed the monotypicgenus Parabramis for this taxon. [2] The genus name is derived from the Greek word para, meaning "the side of ", and the Old French word breme, a type of freshwater fish. [5]
