The Luderick is widespread in eastern Australia from southern Queensland to central South Australia, including northern and north-eastern Tasmania.

Luderick are dark brown or greenish-grey colour with 10 to 12 narrow vertical bars down their side. They have a slivery-grey underbelly.

AKA: Blackie, Blackfish
Family: KYPHOSIDAE known as drummers
Family members also on the Redmap list: Rock blackfish and Zebrafish
Habitat: Reef
Size: Approximately 60cm in length and up to 3kgs
Image: Peter Gouldthorpe
Log it: Log a Luderick sighting if you spot it on the east coast south of St Helens and on either the west or south coasts.

Species names on the Redmap site are based on the Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota or CAAB (http://www.cmar.csiro.au/caab/).  This is updated regularly and lists the approved common name, family, species name and more.

• Australian Marine Life: The Plants and Animals of Temperate Waters by G. J. Edgar, Revised (2008) Reed Books, Melbourne

• Fishes of Australia’s Southern Coast, Edited by M. Gomon. D. Bray and R. Kuiter (2008) Reed Books, Melbourne

• Fishes of Tasmania by P. Last, E. Scott and F. Talbot (1983). Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority, Hobart