Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Cypriniformes > Family Cyprinidae > Subfamily Leuciscinae > Genus Blicca

Blicca bjoerkna (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Cyprinus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Blicca*	Heckel, 1843	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Abramis bjoerkna*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: blei; kolblei sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

English: silver bream; white bream sources: Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A): 1-37;VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

French: brème bordelière sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

German: Blicke; Güster; Halbbrasse sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: plakis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: flire sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: flire sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: krąp sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: густера sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: androga sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: brema blanca sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: tahta baligi; tahta balığı sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Густера; Плоскирка європейська

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
basis of record	Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
additional source	Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
source of synonymy	Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

FishBase images (Blicca bjoerkna, Germany, by Hartl, A.)

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Blicca bjoerkna (Linnaeus, 1758). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154274

Dr. Jorg Freyhof. Blicca bjoerkna (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/7f35f0cb-fc99-4c4c-9b2b-493742b0229c