Range and Habitat
The Yellowtail trumpeter ranges along the north coast of Australia from Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia eastwards to Bowen in Queensland, also extending north to southern Papua New Guinea.
The species is known to tolerate a very wide range of salinites, from fresh river waters to hypersaline waters found in some areas of Shark Bay and everything in between. Yellowtail trumpeter often inhabit estuarine waters along the Western Australian coast, as well as sand and seagrass beds in inshore and offshore waters of the continental shelf.
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