''Megalobrama'' is a genus of
cyprinid
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fish
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, consisting of six species native to fresh water in China and eastern Russia. The name is derived from the
Greek
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Greece
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
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word ''megalos'', meaning "great", and the
Old French
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word ''breme'', a type of freshwater fish.
Species
* ''
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 terminalis''
( J. Richardson, 1846) (black Amur bream)
References
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Cultrinae
Taxa named by Benedykt Dybowski
Freshwater fish genera
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