Freshwater Fishes of Iran, Species Accounts - Cyprinidae

Freshwater Fishes of Iran

Species Accounts - Cyprinidae - Parabramis

Revised: 26 June 2007

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Genus Parabramis
Bleeker, 1865

Parabramis pekinensis
(Basilewsky, 1855)

Reported from the Karakum Canal and Kopetdag Reservoir in Turkmenistan (Shakirova and Sukhanova, 1994; Sal'nikov, 1995) as an exotic from China. May eventually be found in the Tedzhen (= Hari ) River and Caspian Sea basins of Iran. No Iranian record.

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