Description

Also known as Bream, Goldline Seabream, Gold-lined Seabream, Natal Stumpnose, Sea Bream, Silver Bream, Silver Seabream, Snapper, Yellowfin Bream.

Found singly or in schools, foraging for food, along shallow, coastlines, estuaries, mangroves and in rock pools.
They feed on benthic invertebrates.
Juveniles found in estuaries.
Length - 65cm
Depth - 0-60m
Widespread Indo-West Pacific

Porgies are found in tropical as well as cooler waters, and are bottom-dwelling carnivores. Most species possess grinding, molar-like teeth, for eating crustaceans. Ref: https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Rhabdosargus-sarba