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Silver drummer

Silver drummer
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Centrarchiformes
Family: Kyphosidae
Genus: Kyphosus
Species:
K. sydneyanus
Binomial name
Kyphosus sydneyanus
(Günther, 1886)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pimelepterus sydneyanus Günther, 1886
  • Pimelepterus meridionalis Ogilby, 1887
  • Cridorsa moonta Whitley, 1938
  • Kyphosus diemenensis E.O.G. Scott, 1971

The silver drummer (Kyphosus sydneyanus), also known as the buff bream, buffalo bream, buffs, common buffalo bream, drummer bream, Southern silver drummer or Sydney drummer, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub from the family Kyphosidae. It is found in the southeastern Indian Ocean and the southwestern Pacific Ocean off Australia and New Zealand where it is found in shallow water near rocky reefs.

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Kyphosus sydneyanus". FishBase. December 2019 version.

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