Black-ear Javelin, Pomadasys trifasciatus Fowler 1937

Other Names: Blackeared Grunt

Black-ear Javelin, Pomadasys trifasciatus. Source: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial

Summary:

A uniform silvery-grey grunt or with several indistinct stripes along the side. Juveniles have three oblique dark stripes, the middle stripe broad, that fade and become absent with growth, a large dark brownish-black spot on the gill cover, and no markings on the dorsal fin.

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Bray, D.J. 2022, Pomadasys trifasciatus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 15 Jan 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/2441

Black-ear Javelin, Pomadasys trifasciatus Fowler 1937

More Info

Distribution	Karatha, Western Australia, to off Bowen, Queensland. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, east-Indo-west Pacific: Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, north to the Philippines and southwards to northern Australia, from Karatha in the west to Bowen in the east. Inhabits estuaries, river mouths, bays and inshore coastal waters, in soft bottom areas and around reefs.
Features	Dorsal fin XII-XIII, 12-14; Anal fin III, 7; Lateral line pores 43-50; Circumpeduncular scales 19-23, 8-10 above lateral line, 9-11 below. Body depth 2.6–2.9 in SL; head blunt, upper profile convex; mouth small; maxilla reaching to anterior margin of eye or pupil; chin with 2 pores followed by a pit containing a pore on each side; jaw teeth villiform (brush-like). Second anal-fin spine about equal to or shorter than length of snout plus eye diameter; caudal fin slightly emarginate.
Fisheries	Taken as bycatch in trawl fisheries.
Etymology	The specific name is from the Latin tri- (= three) and fasciatus (= banded), in reference to the three obliques stripes along the side in juveniles.
Species Citation	Pomadasys trifasciatus Fowler 1937, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 89: 235, fig. 234. Type locality: Paknam, Thailand.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2022
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Black-ear Javelin, Pomadasys trifasciatus Fowler 1937

References

Fowler, H.W. 1937. Zoological results of the third De Schauensee Siamese Expedition. Part 8. Fishes obtained in 1936. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 89: 125-264 figs 1-300

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Ramm, D.C., Pender, P.J., Willing, R.S. & Buckworth, R.C. 1990. Large-scale spatial patterns of abundance within the assemblage of fish caught by prawn trawlers in Northern Australian waters. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 41(1): 79-95.