Black bream may refer to one of several fish species:
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Black drummer, ''Girella elevata''
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Black seabream
The black seabream (''Spondyliosoma cantharus'') is a species of Sparidae fishes. They are recognisable by their oval compressed body and jaws containing 4-6 rows of slender teeth which are larger at the front. They are silvery in colour with bl ...
, ''Spondyliosoma cantharus'', a silvery fish found in northern Europe and the Mediterranean
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Galjoen
The galjoen, black bream, or blackfish (''Dichistius capensis'') is a species of marine fish found only along the coast of southern Africa from Angola to South Africa.
Galjoen is the national fish of South Africa.
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, ''Dichistius capensis'', the national fish of South Africa
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Macquarie perch
The Macquarie perch (''Macquaria australasica'') is an Australian native freshwater fish of the Murray-Darling river system. It is a member of the family Percichthyidae and is closely related to the golden perch (''Macquaria ambigua'').
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, ''Macquaria australasica'', an Australian native freshwater fish of the Murray-Darling river system
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Parore
The parore (''Girella tricuspidata'') also known as luderick, black bream or blackfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub from the family Kyphosidae which is found in the southwestern Pacific Ocean off Australia and New Zealand ...
, ''Girella tricuspidata'', a sea chub of the family Kyphosidae
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Sooty grunter
The sooty grunter (''Hephaestus fuliginosus''), also known by the name black bream, blubberlips, Northern grunter or purple grunter, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a grunter from the family Terapontidae. It inhabits coastal and inland ...
, ''Hephaestus fuliginosus'', found in rivers of Queensland and Northern Territory
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Southern black bream
''Acanthopagrus butcheri'', the black bream but also commonly known as the southern black bream, southern bream and blue-nosed bream, is a species of marine and freshwater fish of the porgy family, Sparidae. It is a deep-bodied fish, occasion ...
, ''Acanthopagrus butcheri'' of the family Sparidae, endemic to Australia
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Surf bream, ''Acanthopagrus australis'' of the family Sparidae, found off eastern Australia
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Japanese black porgy, ''Acanthopagrus schlegelii'' of the family Sparidae
See also
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Bream
Bream ( ) are species of freshwater and marine fish belonging to a variety of genera including ''Abramis'' (e.g., ''A. brama'', the common bream), ''Acanthopagrus'', '' Argyrops'', ''Blicca'', '' Brama'', ''Chilotilapia'', '' Etelis'', ''Lepo ...
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Yellowfin bream (disambiguation) Yellowfin bream, yellow bream, yellow sea bream, or yellowfin sea bream are the common names for several species of sea breams with very similar appearances:
*'' Acanthopagrus australis'' (also known as surf bream, silver bream, black bream, and e ...
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Bream (disambiguation)
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Black Amur bream, a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Megalobrama''
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