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Xenocyprididae (East Asian minnows)
Etymology: Parabramis: Greek, para = the side of + old French breme, bresme, a fresh water fish; 1460 (Ref. 45335).
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; brackish; benthopelagic; amphidromous (Ref. 51243). Temperate; 10°C - 20°C (Ref. 13614); 54°N - 23°N, 112°E - 142°E
Asia: Basin of the Amur, from Blagoveshchensk to the very mouths. Sungari, Ussuri, Lake Khanka, Liao. China south to Shanghai and Ningpo.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm 35.0  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 55.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 1441); common length : 8.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 35840); max. published weight: 4.1 kg (Ref. 1441); max. reported age: 17 years (Ref. 56557)
Feeds on higher aquatic plants. Its flesh is tasty but very bony. One of the most important commercial fishes of China (Ref. 1441).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Assuming standard cyprinid reproduction. Replace ASAP.
Bogutskaya, N.G. and A.M. Naseka, 1996. Cyclostomata and fishes of Khanka Lake drainage area (Amur river basin). An annotated check-list with comments on taxonomy and zoogeography of the region. Zool. Inst. Russ. Acad. Sci. :89 p. (Ref. 13397)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 126983)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: highly commercial; aquaculture: commercial
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