Black Bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri)

About Black Bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Chordates
• Class: Ray-finned Fish
• Order: Butterflyfishes, Angelfishes, and Allies
• Family: Seabreams and Porgies

The black bream, also commonly known as the southern black bream, southern bream and blue-nosed bream, is a species of anadromous ray-finned fish of the porgy family Sparidae. A deep-bodied fish, it is occasionally confused with other similar species that occur within its range, but is generally distinguished from these species by a lack of yellow ventral and anal fins. Southern black bream are endemic to the southern coasts of Australia from Shark Bay in Western Australia to Ulladulla, New South Wales, as well as Tasmania.