Fish

White Stumpnose Bream

Rhabdosargus globiceps

A silvery South African stumpnose seabream banded with six or seven faint dusky crossbars.

Also known as wit natalse

White Stumpnose Bream
Photo: Alex Dreyer · CC BY-NC 4.0
Habitat
Sandy inshore ground, South African coast

The white stumpnose is a sparid seabream of the South African coast, told from its close relatives by the six or seven narrow, dusky crossbars along the body and its longer pectoral fins. Like other stumpnoses it has strong cutting teeth at the front backed by rounded molars for crushing shellfish.

It is a popular inshore angling and eating fish over sandy and mixed ground.