Bream

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Bream

Bream is a general term for a number of species of freshwater

Freshwater

Freshwater is a word that refers to bodies of water such as ponds, lakes, rivers and streams containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids....
and marine

Ocean

An ocean is a major body of Seawater, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a World Ocean that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas....
fish

Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
belonging to a variety of genera

Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
including: Abramis
Abramis

'Abramis' is a genus of freshwater fish in family family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes, containing the 'typical breams'. The type species is A....
(e.g. A. brama, the carp bream

Carp bream

The carp bream is a species of fresh-water fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae....
); Acanthopagrus; Argyrops; Blicca; Brama; Etelis; Lepomis
Lepomis

Lepomis is a genus of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of order Perciformes. The type species is L. auritus, the redbreast sunfish....
; Gymnocranius; Lethrinus; Nemipterus; Rhabdosargus and Scolopsis
Scolopsis

Scolopsis is a genus in the bream family , with 16 species....
.

Although species from all of these genera are called "bream", the term does not imply a degree of relatedness between these species.

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Bream is a general term for a number of species of freshwater

Freshwater

Freshwater is a word that refers to bodies of water such as ponds, lakes, rivers and streams containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids....
and marine

Ocean

Fish

Genus

Carp bream

Middle English

Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman conquest of England of 1066 and about 1470, when the #Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the introduction of the printing press into England by William...
word breme, of Old French

Old French

Old French was the Romance languages dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300....
origin.

The term sea bream is sometimes used for porgies

Sparidae

The Sparidae is a family of fish, included in the order Perciformes. The fish of the family are commonly called breams and porgies ....
(family Sparidae

Sparidae

The Sparidae is a family of fish, included in the order Perciformes. The fish of the family are commonly called breams and porgies ....
) or pomfret

Pomfret

Pomfret are perciform fishes belonging to the family Bramidae.They are found in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Oceans, and the largest species, the Atlantic pomfret, Brama brama, grows up to one metre long....
s (family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
Bramidae).

Bream

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