The  white  bream,  or  breamflat,  is  neither  so  large  a  fish  as
the  common  bream,  nor  so  abundant  in  England,  where  it  is
only  found  in  the  Trent,  the  Cam,  and  a  few  other  streams
of  the  eastern  watershed  ;  but  it  has  a  wide  range  on  the
Continent  north  of  the  Alps,  and  is  one  of  the  commonest
fishes  of  Central  Europe.
The  marked  and  constant  difference  in  dentition  between
this  fish  and  the  common  bream — the  teeth  of  the  latter  being
arranged  in  a  single  series,  those  of  the  white  bream  in  two  rows —
has  led  some  naturalists  to  place  it  in  the  separate  genus  of
'Blicca  ;  but  this  seems  an  unnecessary  and  artificial  separation
of  two  species  which  are  so  closely  similar  in  other  respects.
