Alburnus

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| name = Alburnus

| image = Alburnus alburnus Hungary.jpg

| image_caption = Common bleak (Alburnus alburnus)

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Alburnus

| authority = Rafinesque, 1820{{Cof family|family=Leuciscinae|access-date=25 March 2025}}

| type_species = Cyprinus alburnus

| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = see text

| synonyms = {{Genus list

| Chalcalburnus | Berg, 1933

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Alburnus is a genus of fish in the family Leuciscidae, the daces and minnows. They are known commonly as bleaks.{{cite journal |author1=Buj I. |author2=Vukić J. |author3=Šanda R. |author4=Perea S. |author5=Ćaleta M. |author6=Marčić Z. |author7=Bogut I. |author8=Povž M. |author9=Mrakovčić M. |year=2010 |title=Morphological comparison of bleaks (Alburnus, Cyprinidae) from the Adriatic Basin with the description of a new species |url=http://www.ivb.cz/folia/59/2/7_ms_1466_buj.pdf |journal=Folia Zoologica |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=129–141 |doi=10.25225/fozo.v59.i2.a8.2010 |access-date=2014-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202115421/http://www.ivb.cz/folia/59/2/7_ms_1466_buj.pdf |archive-date=2014-02-02 |url-status=dead }} A group of species in the genus is known as shemayas.{{cite journal |author1=Freyhof J. |author2=Kottelat M. | year = 2007 | title = Alburnus vistonicus, a new species of shemaya from eastern Greece, with remarks on Chalcalburnus chalcoides macedonicus from Lake Volvi (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) | url = https://pfeil-verlag.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ief18_3_03.pdf | journal = Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters | volume = 18 | issue = 3| pages = 205–212 }} The genus occurs in the western Palearctic realm, and the center of diversity is in Turkey.{{cite journal |author1=Özuluğ M. |author2=Freyhof J. | year = 2007 | title = Alburnus demiri, a new species of bleak from Western Anatolia, Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) | url = https://pfeil-verlag.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ief18_4_03.pdf | journal = Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters | volume = 18 | issue = 4| pages = 307–312 }}

The genus Chalcalburnus is now part of Alburnus.{{cite journal | author1 = Özuluğ M. | author2 = Freyhof J. | year = 2007 | title = Rediagnosis of four species of Alburnus from Turkey and description of two new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) | url = https://pfeil-verlag.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ief18_3_06.pdf | journal = Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters | volume = 18 | issue = 3 | pages = 233–246 }}