Megalobrama is a genus of cyprinid fish, consisting of six species 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 | |
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| Black Amur bream, Megalobrama terminalis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Cultrinae |
| Genus: | Megalobrama Dybowski, 1872 |
| Type species | |
| Megalobrama skolkovii Dybowski, 1872
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Species
edit- 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 terminalis (J. Richardson, 1846) (black Amur bream)
References
edit- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Megalobrama". FishBase. August 2011 version.
- Valid species list of genus Megalobrama on FishBase.
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