White Amur bream

The white Amur bream is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies This is the only species in the monospecific genus Parabramis. It is native to eastern Asia, where found from the Amur River basin in Russia south to Ningbo and Shanghai in China. It is an important food fish, and has been introduced to regions outside its native range.
The species was originally described as Abramis pekinensis by the Russian physician, zoologist and ichthyologist Stepan [Ivanovich Basilewsky] with its Type [locality (biology)|type locality] given as the rivers flowing into Tschili Bay. In 1865 Pieter Bleeker proposed the monotypicgenus Parabramis for this taxon. 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.