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Abramis brama Prague Vltava 1🐟

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SpeciesCypriniformesCyprinidae
Fish

🐟Common bream

Abramis brama (Linnaeus, 1758)

Brasen er en karpefisk i familien Cyprinidae og lever i stimer. Den er højrygget og har skarpe, sorte finner og de voksne eksemplarer er bronzegyldne på siderne. Den lever i søer og moser, men findes også i brakvand, hvor den om foråret trækker op i de danske åer for at gyde. Maksimalvægten i Danmark er omkring 9 kg. Brasen lever nær bunden, hvor den finder sin føde, som er smådyr, snegle og planter. Dens mund kan skydes ud, hvilket gør det lettere for den at "støvsuge" føden op fra bunden. Når den gør dette står den nærmest på hovedet.

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≈ 1/19th of your weight
Also called
bream, Bream, Carp bream
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
3.31 kg
Body length
0.25 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
23 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common bream

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
3.31 kgrecord 6.01 kg · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
0.25 mrecord 0.82 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
23 yearsrecord 23 years · FishBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
3.05
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.05 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
3.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common bream yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderCypriniformes
  4. ›familyCyprinidae
  5. ›genusAbramis
  6. ›speciesAbramis brama
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderCypriniformes
  3. suborderCyprinoidei
  4. genusAbramis
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. superorderCypriniphysae
  10. orderCypriniformes
  11. suborderCyprinoidei
  12. genusAbramis
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Brachse (de), Abramis brama (es), Leszcz (pl), أبراميس شائع (ar), платика (bg), brema (ca) … and 25 more languages
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