Silver bream

Blicca is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae. The only species in the genus is Blicca bjoerkna, the white bream or silver bream. This species is found in Europe and Western Asia.

Distribution

Blicca bjoerkna is distributed across most of Europe and in adjacent Western Asia. The natural distribution, though, excludes peripheral areas such as northern Sweden, northern Finland and Norway, and most parts of the British Isles (except Southern England), as well as the Iberian and Italian peninsulas. Introduced populations occur also in Spain and Italy. The Asian distribution is in the Caspian Sea and Aral Sea basins, and in Anatolian Black Sea drainages.