Kyphosus vaigiensis, the brassy chub, brassy drummer, long-finned drummer, low-finned drummer, Northern silver drummer, Queensland drummer, Southern drummer, blue-bronze sea chub, brassy rudderfish, yellow seachub, large-tailed drummer, low-finned chub or long-finned rudderfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub from the family Kyphosidae. It is a largely herbivorous species which has a circumglobal distribution. Studies in the 21st Century appear to have shown that some other species in the genus Kyphosus are junior synonyms of this taxon.
Brassy chub
species of fish
Categories:
Fish
Also known as:
English:
drummerlowfinned drummer
Japanese:
伊寿墨イスズミ
Japanese (Romanized):
isuzumi
Latin species name:
Kyphosus vaigiensis
Wikidata ID:
Q1847681
Wikipedia title:
Kyphosus vaigiensis
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