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White-Eye Bream

Ballerus sapa

Classification

White-eye bream (Ballerus sapa) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, minnows and related fishes. This species is indigenous to Europe and Western Asia in the rivers draining into the Black, Azov, Caspian and Aral Seas, although it is invasive elsewhere. Taxonomy The white-eye bream was first formally described in 1814 by the German zoologist, botanist and natural historian Peter Simon Pallas with its type locality given as the Volga River and its tributaries.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 14