Haemulidae

silver grunt

Pomadasys argenteus

Haemulid Fish of Indo West Pacific

• Silver
• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Pacific Ocean
• East Asia
• Oceania
• Southeast Asia
• West Asia
• Fusiform
• Large
• Tropical fish

Pomadasys argenteus, the silver grunt, silver javelin, grunter bream, small-spotted grunter-bream, small-spotted javelin fish, trumpeter or white-finned javelin fish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grunt from the family Haemulidae. This species has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution. It is the type species of the genus Pomadasys.