Silver bream
(Blicca bjoerkna)

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Classification

Species: Blicca bjoerkna
Genus: Blicca - Silver Breams
Family: Leuciscidae - Chub family
Order: Cypriniformes - Carps
Class: Teleostei - Ray-finned fishes
Superclass: Osteichthyes - Bony fishes

General data

Scientific names: Silver bream
Habitat: Freshwater
Climates: Temperate, Continental
Native: Europe, Asia
Distribution: Neva, Volga, Don, Northern Dvina, Gauja, Daugava (Western Dvina), Ural, Trent, Great Ouse, Rhine, Rhone, Dnieper, Dniester, River Thames, Vistula, Danube

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