Silver Drummer
Kyphosus sydneyanus
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 819
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
Description
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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Silver drummer”.