Species Acanthopagrus butcheri (Munro, 1949)
Black Bream, Blue Nose Bream, Blue-nosed Bream, Golden Bream, Silver Bream, Southern Black Bream, Southern Bream, Yellow-fin Bream
- Mylio butcheri Munro, I.S.R. 1949. Revision of Australian silver breams, Mylio and Rhabdosargus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 12(4): 182-223 figs 1-5 pls 16-23 [191, pl. 17, 22(2), 23(2)].
Type data:
Holotype AM IB.1895, Gippsland Lakes, VIC.
Paratype(s) AM IB.1896; QM I.7721–22; (11 paratypes mentioned from several localities, but later indicated that holotype and paratypes lodged in Australian Museum and Queensland Museum).
Generic Combinations
- Acanthopagrus butcheri (Munro, 1949). —
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [46] (1259, changed combination cited)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Ulladulla, NSW (35°21'S) to Shark Bay, WA (25°20'S) and throughout coastal TAS; possibly more widespread, sometimes recorded to Myall Lakes, NSW, but difficult to separate from Acanthopagrus australis, and sometimes the two species hybridise; temperate.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Kanmantoo (KAN), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)
Ecological Descriptors
Coastal, continental shelf, estuary, freshwater, inshore, marine.
Extra Ecological Information
Rarely in freshwter
General References
Gomon, M.F 1994. Family Sparidae. pp. 599-602, figs 530-531 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [600]
Gomon, M.F. 2008. Families Emmelichthyidae, Gerreidae, Sparidae, Sciaenidae, Mullidae. pp. 585-592 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [588]
Hsu, T.-H., Guillén Madrid, A.G., Burridge, C.P., Cheng, H.-Y. & Gwo, J.-C. 2011. Resolution of the Acanthopagrus black seabream complex based on mitochondrial and amplified fragment-length polymorphism analyses. Journal of Fish Biology 79: 1182–1192 [1184]
Iwatsuki, Y, Kume, M. & Yoshino, T. 2010. A new species, Acanthopagrus pacificus from the Western Pacific (Pisces, Sparidae). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science Series A 36(4): 115–130 [115]
Iwatsuki, Y. & Carpenter, K.E. 2006. Acanthopagrus taiwanensis, a new sparid fish (Perciformes), with comparisons to Acanthopagrus berda (Forsskål, 1775) and other nominal species of Acanthopagrus. Zootaxa 1202: 1-19 [49]
Norriss, J.V., Tregonning, J.E., Lenanton, R.C.J. & Sarre, G.A. 2002. Biological synopsis of the black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri (Munro) (Teleostei: Sparidae) in Western Australia with reference to information from other southern states. Fisheries Research Report 93: 1-48 [Department of Fisheries, Western Australia]
Roughley, T.C. 1957. Fish and Fisheries of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 341 pp. [87] (as Mylio butcheri)
Rowland, S.J. 1984. Hybridization between the estuarine fishes yellowfin bream, Acanthopagrus australis (Günther), and black bream, A. butcheri (Munro) (Pisces: Sparidae). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 35: 427-440 [427]
Walker, S. & Neira, F.J. 2001. Aspects of the reproductive biology and early life history of black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri (Sparidae), in a brackish lagoon system in southeastern Australia. Aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology 4(4): 135-142
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [46] (1259)
Common Name References
Allan, R. 2002. Australian Fish and How to Catch Them. Sydney : New Holland Publishers (Australia) 394 pp. [99] (Blue Nose Bream)
Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds) 1994. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [600] (Black Bream, Blue-nosed Bream, Golden Bream, Silver Bream, Southern Black Bream, Yellow-fin Bream)
Kuiter, R.H. 1993. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 437 pp. [192] (Southern Bream)
Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Black Bream)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 14-Dec-2012 | 14-Dec-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 30-Mar-2010 | MODIFIED |