Megalobrama
{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
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| image = Megalobrama terminalis.jpg
| image_caption = Black Amur bream, Megalobrama terminalis
| taxon = Megalobrama
| authority = Dybowski, 1872
| type_species = Megalobrama skolkovii
| type_species_authority = Dybowski, 1872
| subdivision_ranks = Species
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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.
Species
Megalobrama contains the following species:{{Cof genus|genus=Megalobrama|access-date=24 January 2025}}
- 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)
References
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- {{FishBase genus|genus=Megalobrama|month=August|year=2011}}
- {{FishBase valid species list|Megalobrama}}
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Category:Taxa named by Benedykt Dybowski
Category:Freshwater fish genera
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