(Image credit: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO)

Bonefish are a silvery colour with a blackish mark at the front of their face. The caudal fin is deeply forked. Bonefish are an excellent sportfish (often called "ghosts of the flats" by fishermen).

Length: Up to 70 cm

(Previously known as Albula forsteri)

Habitat

Bonefishes occur in all tropical and subtropical seas, generally in relatively shallow water on sand flats; 2-90 m depth

Log it

Although it's distribution is widespread, there is not a lot of information about it's distribution and movements in Australia - so please log this bonefish anywhere in Queensland waters; or in Western Australia, south of Coral Bay.

Related links/info

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.

Find further information and images at FISHES OF AUSTRALIA http://www.fishesofaustralia.net.au/

Froese F, Pauly D (2011) Fishbase. www.fishbase.org

Randall, John E. (2005). Reef and Shore Fishes of the South Pacific. University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu.

Randall, John E. (2005). Reef and Shore Fishes of the South Pacific. University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu.