Mirogrex terraesanctae

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

{{Speciesbox

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{Cite iucn| author = Goren, M. | title = Mirogrex terraesanctae | year = 2014 | page = e.T60341A19848846 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T60341A19848846.en | access-date = 9 January 2018}}

| taxon = Mirogrex terraesanctae

| display_parents = 3

| authority = (Steinitz, 1952)

| synonyms = * Acanthobrama terraesanctae Steinitz, 1952

}}

Mirogrex terraesanctae, the Kinneret bream or Kinneret bleak, is a is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae. It is known from two lakes: Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee, Lake Kinneret), Israel, and {{Interlanguage link|Lake Muzayrib|ar|بحيرة مزيريب}}, Syria. This is a small planktivorous fish, typically about 14 cm long, occurring near surface in large schools.{{FishBase|genus=Mirogrex | species=terraesanctae|month=May|year=2014}} It is very abundant in Lake Tiberias, whereas there is little information on the other lake, which is small (0.5 km2) and can hold a small population anyway.

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