Abramis pekinensis Basilewsky, 1855 The white Amur bream (Parabramis pekinensis) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies[2] This is the only species in the monospecific genus Parabramis.

[3] It is native to eastern Asia, where found from the Amur River basin in Russia south to Ningbo and Shanghai in China.

[4] It is an important food fish,[4] and has been introduced to regions outside its native range.

[1] The species was originally described as Abramis pekinensis by the Russian physician, zoologist and ichthyologist Stepan Ivanovich Basilewsky with its type locality given as the rivers flowing into Tschili Bay.

[3] In 1865 Pieter Bleeker proposed the monotypicgenus Parabramis for this taxon.