| White Amur bream | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Cyprinidae |
| Subfamily: | Cultrinae |
| Genus: | Parabramis Bleeker, 1865 |
| Species: | P. pekinensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Parabramis pekinensis (Basilewsky, 1855) |
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The white Amur bream (Parabramis pekinensis) is a species of cyprinid fish, of the monotypic genus Parabramis. The species was originally described as Abramis pekinensis. The name is derived from the Greek word para, meaning "the side of ", and the Old French word breme, a type of freshwater fish. It is found from Eastern Europe across Asia to China were it is a very important food fish. It has been introduced in several of the countries it is found in.