---
title: "Brassy Drummer"
description: "Kyphosus vaigiensis — Ryby. 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."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/brassy-drummer
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Brassy Drummer

> Kyphosus vaigiensis — Ryby. 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.

- Scientific name: *Kyphosus vaigiensis*
- Category: `fish` (Ryby)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 2962
- Wikidata: [Q1847681](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1847681)
- iNaturalist taxon: [210173](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/210173)

## Names

- en: Brassy Drummer
- de: Messing-Ruderfisch
- es: Chopa
- fr: Calicagère grise à lignes jaunes

## Countries with the most observations

US (589), MX (433), ID (107), AU (52), HN (52), ES (41), MV (38), KY (34), BZ (28), EC (27), KE (20), NF (19)

## Summary

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 synonyms of this taxon.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyphosus_vaigiensis

## Photo

![Brassy Drummer](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brassy-drummer/medium.jpg)

Photo: Justin Philbois · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/244232079

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/brassy-drummer?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).