Collar Seabream, Gymnocranius audleyi Ogilby 1916
Other Names: Bastard Bream, Collared Large-eye Bream, Collared Sea Bream, Collared Sea-bream, Coral Bream, Iodine Bream, Iodine Sea Bream, Pale-faced Bream, Sand Snapper
A Collar Seabream, Gymnocranius audleyi, at Manly, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, January 2022. Source: biniek-io / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A pale silvery, olive or bronze seabream becoming paler or silvery-white below, with flecks on the side and spots on the scales often forming fine horizontal rows, yellowish fins, a distinctive darker scaled patch behind the upper part of the eye, a naked face, and a dark bar sometimes through the eye.
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Bray, D.J. 2022, Gymnocranius audleyi in Fishes of Australia, accessed 04 Oct 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/2454
Collar Seabream, Gymnocranius audleyi Ogilby 1916
More Info
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Distribution |
Eastern Australia, from the Great Barrier Reef off Port Douglas, to Sydney Harbour, New South Wales; also the Lord Howe Province in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the Chesterfield Islands and New Caledonia. Individuals inhabit sandy or rubble areas near reefs. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin X, 10; Anal fin III, 9-10; Pectoral fin 14; . Inner surface of pectoral-fin base without scales. |
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Colour |
Overall silver or whitish, often light brown or olive on upper sides; each scale on sides with a brown spot forming longitudinal rows, those on back darkest; top of head dull brownish or grey; cheek and opercle silvery, sometimes with a golden sheen; parietal scale patch (on side of nape, above and behind eye) blackish surrounded by a brilliant white margin; fins uniformly clear to slightly yellowish. Some individuals, especially those freshly dead, have scattered brown flecks on sides. Also a blackish bar running through the eye may be evident. |
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Feeding |
Feeds mostly on benthic invertebrates. |
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Fisheries |
The flesh sometimes has a distasteful iodine flavour, although untainted fish are reportedly good eating. |
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Etymology |
Ogilby named the species "after my friend Audley Raymond Jones, to whom I am indebted for much interesting information regarding the habits of our fishes." |
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Species Citation |
Gymnocranius audleyi Ogilby 1916, Mem. Qld Mus. 5: 170. Type locality: Snapper Banks, off Moreton Bay, Queensland. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2022 |
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Resources |
Collar Seabream, Gymnocranius audleyi Ogilby 1916
References
Carpenter, K.E. 2001. Sparidae, Lethrinidae. pp. 2990-3050 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 5 2791-3379 pp.
Carpenter, K.E. & Allen, G.R. 1989. FAO Species Catalogue. Emperor fishes and large-eye breams of the world (family Lethrinidae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of lethrinid species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis. No. 125, Vol. 9. Rome : FAO 118 pp.
Carpenter, K.E., Lawrence, A. & Myers, R. 2016. Gymnocranius audleyi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T16719359A16722315. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T16719359A16722315.en. Downloaded on 26 July 2018.
Cockerell, T. D. A. 1916. Some Australian fish-scales. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 5: 52-57 (described as Gymnocranius bitorquatus type locality, Moreton Island, Qld) See ref at BHL
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Sato, T. 1986. A systematic review of the sparoid fishes of the subfamily Monotaxinae, p. 602–612, in T. Uyeno, R. Arai, T. Taniuchi, K. Matsuura (eds)Indo-Pacific fish biology: proceedings of the second international conference on Indo-Pacific fishes. Ichthyological Society of Japan, Tokyo.
