#2076 · 🐟 fish
Common Bream
🇳🇱 Brasem ·Abramis brama
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what is it?
The common bream , freshwater bream , bream , bronze bream or carp bream ( Abramis brama ), is a European species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is now considered to be the only species in the genus Abramis .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 175 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #5 most seen of the fish in NL.
- 3,604 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Bream
- Nederlands
- Brasem
- scientific name
- Abramis brama
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Cypriniformes
- family
- Leuciscidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 175
- sightings in Europe
- 2,806
- sightings worldwide
- 3,604
- GBIF records in NL
- 150,165
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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LC 👀 51 in NL
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#2117 📷 9Orfe
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 92984, Wikidata Q144534, GBIF 9809222, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.