Silver Seabream
Chrysophrys auratus
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 3,514
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
Description
The Australasian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) or silver seabream is a species of porgie found in coastal waters of Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, mainland China, Taiwan, Japan and New Zealand. Its distribution areas in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are disjunct. Although it is almost universally known in Australia and New Zealand as snapper, it does not belong to the Lutjanidae snapper family.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Australasian snapper”.