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Yellowback Seabream
Dentex tumifrons (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
A Yellowback Seabream caught on hook and line at a depth of 100 m, off Swansea, New South Wales, May 2002. View larger image.
A Yellowback Seabream caught on hook and line at a depth of 150 m, off North Solitary Island, New South Wales, January 2004. View larger image.
The Yellowback Seabream has a relatively deep, compressed body. The head profile is bulged near the eye.
This species is orange-brown above, silvery below and has orange-red dorsal, anal and caudal fins. There are three yellow blotches on the back. The first blotch is at the dorsal fin origin.
The Yellowback Seabream grows to 40 cm in length.
It occurs in marine waters of the Western Pacific ranging in depth from 50 m to 250 m.
In Australia it is known from south-western Western Australia, around the tropical north (possibly absent from the Gulf of Carpentaria) and south to the central coast of New South Wales.
View a map of the collecting localities of specimens in the Australian Museum Fish Collection.
Further reading
- Carpenter, K.E. 2001. Sparidae. in Carpenter, K.E. & V.H. Niem. (eds) FAO species identification guide for Fishery purposes. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 5. FAO. Pp. 3379.
- Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. & P.J. Kailola. 1984. Trawled Fishes of southern Indonesia and north-western Australia. Jakarta: Directorate General of Fisheries (Indonesia), German Agency for Technical Cooperation, Australian Development Assistance Bureau. Pp. 406.
