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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
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| image = Vimba vimba.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Vimba vimba]]''
| taxon = Vimba
| authority = [[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger]], 1873
| type_species = ''Cyprinus vimba''
| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
| synonyms = ''Leucabramis'' <small>[[Fredrik Adam Smitt|Smitt]], 1895</small>
}}
'''''Vimba''''' is a genus of [[cyprinid]] fish that is found in [[Europe]] and western [[Asia]]. There are currently four described species.
''Vimba'' are found in brackish waters of estuaries, muddy streams, rivers, ponds, and subalpine lakes.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Patimar |first=Rahman |last2=Safari |first2=Sajjad |date=2009 |title=Description of the biology of Caspian vimba, Vimba vimba (Linnaeus, 1758), in Gorgan Bay-Miankaleh Wildlife Refuge (southeast Caspian Sea) |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00343-010-9005-6 |journal=Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology |language=en |volume=28 |issue=6 |pages=1173–1179 |doi=10.1007/s00343-010-9005-6 |issn=0254-4059}}</ref>
== Species ==
* ''[[Vimba elongata]]'' <small>([[Achille Valenciennes|Valenciennes]], 1844)</small> (Bavarian vimba)
* ''[[Vimba melanops]]'' <small>([[Johann Jakob Heckel|Heckel]], 1837)</small> (Macedonian vimba)
* ''[[Vimba mirabilis]]'' <small>(Ladiges, 1960)</small> (Menderes vimba)
* ''[[Vimba vimba]]'' <small>([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758)</small> (Vimba bream)
== References ==
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* {{FishBase genus | genus = Vimba | month = March | year = 2015}}
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