Megalobrama

Megalobrama is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies. The fishes in this genus are native to fresh water in China and eastern Russia. The name is derived from the Greek word megalos, meaning "great", and the Old French word breme, a type of freshwater fish.

Megalobrama
Black Amur bream, Megalobrama terminalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Xenocyprididae
Genus:	Megalobrama Dybowski, 1872
Type species
Megalobrama skolkovii Dybowski, 1872

Species

Megalobrama contains the following species:^[1]

• Megalobrama amblycephala P. L. Yih, 1955 (Wuchang bream)
• Megalobrama elongata H. J. Huang & W. Zhang, 1986
• Megalobrama mantschuricus (Basilewsky, 1855)
• Megalobrama pellegrini (T. L. Tchang, 1930)
• Megalobrama skolkovii Dybowski, 1872
• Megalobrama terminalis (J. Richardson, 1846) (black Amur bream)