Fish · La Saladita, Guerrero

Brassy Drummer

Kyphosus vaigiensis

Spanish: Chopa

Brassy Drummer (Kyphosus vaigiensis)
Photographed by zihuadean on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC

Kyphosus vaigiensis, the brassy chub, brassy drummer, long-finned drummer, low-finned drummer, Northern silver drummer, Queensland drummer, Southern drummer, blue-bronze sea chub, brassy rudderfish, yellow seachub, large-tailed drummer, low-finned chub or long-finned rudderfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub from the family Kyphosidae. It is a largely herbivorous species which has a circumglobal distribution. Studies in the 21st Century appear to have shown that some other species in the genus Kyphosus are junior...

TaxonomyActinopterygii › Centrarchiformes › Kyphosidae
Local records13 research-grade observations within about 50 km of La Saladita (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones)
Global records2,816 on iNaturalist
Most recent records2022 – 2025
Months of the 8 most recent records
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Recent local sightings

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Cite as: “Brassy Drummer (Kyphosus vaigiensis) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/kyphosus-vaigiensis/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.