| Main Ref. | Kailola, P.J., M.J. Williams, P.C. Stewart, R.E. Reichelt, A. McNee and C. Grieve, 1993 | ||||
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| Remarks | Black bream are usually restricted to estuarine habitats and only leave them during periods of flooding (Ref. 6390). They can withstand a wide range of salinities and sometimes move into freshwater reaches of rivers (Ref. 28468). Black bream are also demersal and tend to inhabit areas where rocky river beds, snags or structures such as jetties provide cover (Ref. 28468), although they are caught in deeper open waters over sand or mud substrates in the Gippsland Lakes (Ref. 28469). Black bream larvae and small juveniles are most abundant over seagrass beds in shallow estuarine waters (Ref. 28468, 28472). |
| Substrate | Soft Bottom Hard Bottom; |
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| Special habitats | Beds: sea grass; |
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| Feeding type | mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Feeding type ref | Anonymous, 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feeding habit | hunting macrofauna (predator) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feeding habit ref | Anonymous, 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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