White Amur bream

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]

White Amur bream
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Suborder:	Cyprinoidei
Family:	Xenocyprididae
Genus:	Parabramis Bleeker, 1865[2]
Species:	P. pekinensis
Binomial name
Parabramis pekinensis (Basilewsky, 1855)[2]
Synonyms[3]
Leuciscus bramula Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1844 Leuciscus rhomboidalis Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1844 Abramis pekinensis Basilewsky, 1855 Megalobrama skolkovii var. carinatus Dybowski, 1872 Chanodichthys stenzii Popta, 1907 Parabramis liaohonensis Yih & Wu, 1964 Parabramis pekinensis f. strenosomus Yu, Xie & Yih, 1959

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]