What is "black bream"

n. important dark-colored edible food and game fish of Australia [syn: Chrysophrys australis]

Black bream may refer to one of several fish species:

• Black drummer, Girella elevata
• Black seabream, Spondyliosoma cantharus, a silvery fish found in northern Europe and the Mediterranean
• Galjoen, Dichistius capensis, the national fish of South Africa
• Macquarie perch, Macquaria australasica, an Australian native freshwater fish of the Murray-Darling river system
• Parore, Girella tricuspidata, a sea chub of the family Kyphosidae
• Sooty grunter, Hephaestus fuliginosus, found in rivers of Queensland and Northern Territory
• Southern black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri of the family Sparidae, endemic to Australia
• Surf bream, Acanthopagrus australis of the family Sparidae, found off eastern Australia
• Japanese black porgy, Acanthopagrus schlegelii of the family Sparidae