Acanthopagrus australis
Acanthopagrus australis, the yellowfin bream, also known as sea bream, surf bream, silver bream or eastern black bream, is a species of marine and freshwater fish of the porgy family, Sparidae. It is a deep-bodied fish, occasionally confused with Acanthopagrus butcheri, but is generally distinguished by its yellowish ventral and anal fins. It is a popular target for recreational fishermen due to its capacity to fight well above its weight coupled with its table quality.

Photographer: Mark McGrouther, Rights holder: Australian Museum, Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU) · CC BY 3.0 au · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Acanthopagrus australis on record, most of them in the Holocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Acanthopagrus australis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Acanthopagrus australis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Achoerodus1 site
- Agamidae1 site
- Arctocephalus doriferus1 site
- Ardenna bulleri1 site
- Ardenna grisea1 site
- Ardenna tenuirostris1 site
- Argyrosomus1 site
- Brachyura1 site
- Canis lupus dingo1 site
- Colubridae1 site
- Corvus1 site
- Dasyurus maculatus1 site
- Diomedea exulans1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Elapidae1 site
- Eudyptula minor novaehollandiae1 site
- Gallus gallus1 site
- Isoodon obesulus1 site
- Ixobrychus dubius1 site
- Macropus (Notamacropus) rufogriseus1 site
- Monacanthidae1 site
- Morelia spilota1 site
- Mysticeti indet.1 site
- Otolithus (Chrysophris)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Acanthopagrus australis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Acanthopagrus australis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Photographer: Mark McGrouther, Rights holder: Australian Museum, Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU)
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 au
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acanthopagrus australis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.