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Common Bream

Abramis brama

Classification

The common bream (Abramis brama), also known as the freshwater bream, bream, bronze bream, carp bream or sweaty bream, is a European species of freshwater fish in the family Leuciscidae. It is now considered to be the only species in the genus Abramis. Taxonomy The common bream was first formally described as Cyprinus brama in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae published in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus with its type locality given as European lakes.

Distribution

Peter van der Sluijs · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 15,508Belgium · 7,384France · 7,262Germany · 1,767United Kingdom · 816Switzerland · 281Italy · 21Luxembourg · 14Spain · 5