White-eye bream

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White-eye bream
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Cyprinidae
Subfamily: Leuciscinae
Genus: Ballerus
Species: B. sapa
Binomial name
Ballerus sapa
Pallas, 1814
The range of the species

White-eye bream (Ballerus sapa) is a fish species of the family Cyprinidae. Widespread in many large rivers in Europe and Asia in drainages of the Black Sea, Caspian Sea, and Aral Sea. Introduced to several rivers in northern Russia, in Rhine (in 1995) and invasive in Vistula drainage, coming from Black Sea basin through Dnieper–Bug Canal. Freshwater fish, up to 35 cm long.

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