{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Vimba vimba.jpg | image_caption = ''Vimba vimba'' | taxon = Vimba | authority = Fitzinger, 1873<ref name = "Cof family">{{Cof family|family=Leuciscinae||access-date=11 May 2025}}</ref> | type_species = ''Cyprinus vimba'' | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758<ref name = "Cof family"/> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = | synonyms = ''Leucabramis'' <small>Smitt, 1895</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name = "Cof family"/> }}
'''''Vimba''''' is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. The fishes in this genus are found in Europe and western Asia.
''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|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
== Species == ''Vimba'' contains the following species:<ref name = "Cof genus">{{Cof genus|genus=Vimba|access-date=11 May 2025}}</ref> * ''Vimba melanops'' <small>(Heckel, 1837)</small> (Macedonian vimba) * ''Vimba mirabilis'' <small>(Ladiges, 1960)</small> (Menderes vimba) * ''Vimba persa'' <small>(Pallas,1814)</small> (Caspian vimba) * ''Vimba tenella'' <small>(Nordmann, 1840)</small> * ''Vimba vimba'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> (Vimba bream)
== References == {{Reflist}} * {{FishBase genus | genus = Vimba | month = March | year = 2015}}
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