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Vimba Breams
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Vimba Breams

Vimba

Vimba is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. The fishes in this genus are found in Europe and western Asia.

Vimba are found in brackish waters of estuaries, muddy streams, rivers, ponds, and subalpine lakes.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species

Vimba Bream

speciesVimba vimba

Macedonian Vimba

speciesVimba melanops

Caspian vimba

speciesVimba persa

Menderes Vimba

speciesVimba mirabilis

Vimba tenella

speciesVimba tenella

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 92798.