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Black Amur bream

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ2610468 ↗
Source-derived summary

The black Amur bream (Megalobrama terminalis) is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish in the genus Megalobrama.

Geographic distribution

It is found in the basin of the Amur, Ussuri, and Sungari Rivers, and in Lake Khanka.

Footnotes

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Megalobrama terminalis". FishBase.

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This entry incorporates text from “Black Amur bream” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.