Acanthopagrus butcheri (Munro, 1949)
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
The black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri), 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. The black bream is primarily an inhabitant of brackish waters of estuaries and coastal lakes, rarely entering the open ocean, as it cannot complete its life cycle in a fully marine environment. During the breeding season, the species is known to penetrate into the upper reaches of rivers to spawn, causing an influx of juveniles in the estuaries a few months later. It is an opportunistic predator, consuming a wide range of crustaceans, molluscs, polychaetes and forage fish.
Wikipedia contributors, Acanthopagrus butcheri; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T18:56:09.848725+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Acanthopagrus butcheri (Munro, 1949)
- Name authority
- (Munro, 1949)
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Family
- Sparidae
- Genus
- Acanthopagrus
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: yes · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- familySparidae Rafinesque, 1818
- genusAcanthopagrus Peters, 1855
- speciesAcanthopagrus butcheri (Munro, 1949)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Acanthopagrus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Acanthopagrus akazakii Iwatsuki, Kimura & Yoshino, 2006 | SparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| doublebar breamAcanthopagrus bifasciatus (Forsskål, 1775) | SparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthopagrus latus (Houttuyn, 1782) | SparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthopagrus omanensis Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2010 | SparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthopagrus palmaris (Whitley, 1935) | SparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthopagrus schlegelii (Bleeker, 1854) | SparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthopagrus sheim Iwatsuki, 2013 | SparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthopagrus vagus (Peters, 1852) | SparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthopagrus sivicolus Akazaki, 1962 | SparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthopagrus australis (Günther, 1859) | SparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthopagrus arabicus Iwatsuki, 2013 | SparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Mylio butcheri Munro, 1949 Munro, 1949 | synonym |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279071 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:8YV6. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.