Fish > Surgeonfish
The Atlantic Blue Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) is an iconic, vibrant reef surgeonfish found abundantly throughout the coral ecosystems of the western Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. Celebrated for its deep royal-blue coloration and bright yellow caudal spine, this tireless...
Fish > Filefish
The Scrawled Filefish (Aluterus scriptus), also known as the Broomtail Filefish, is the largest member of the filefish family (Monacanthidae). Famous for its strikingly compressed body, broom-like caudal fin, and dazzling electric-blue squiggles and spots, this...
Fish > Eels
The Reticulated Moray (Muraena retifera) is a striking, boldly patterned moray eel native to the coral reefs and rocky hardbottom ledges of the western Atlantic Ocean. Adorned with a dazzling mesh of dark net-like reticulations and bright golden-yellow rosettes, this...
Fish > Sharks & Rays
The Tropical Sawshark (Pristiophorus delicatus) is an extraordinary deepwater elasmobranch native to the twilight benthic depths of northeastern Australia and the Coral Sea. Described scientifically in 2008, this remarkable shark is distinguished by an elongated,...
Fish > Graylings
The Australian Grayling (Prototroctes maraena), historically known as the cucumber mullet due to its distinctive fresh cucumber aroma when freshly caught, is a slender, streamlined native freshwater fish endemic to southeastern Australia. As an amphidromous species,...
Fish > Galaxiids
The Swan Galaxias (Galaxias fontanus) is an endangered, slender freshwater fish found naturally only in the remote headwater creeks of eastern Tasmania. Devoid of scales and covered in a protective mucus coating, this strictly non-migratory galaxiid survives only in...
Fish > Gudgeons
The Flinders Ranges Mogurnda (Mogurnda clivicola), also commonly referred to as the Flinders Ranges Purple-spotted Gudgeon, is an ancient, isolated freshwater fish surviving in the arid heart of South Australia. Confined to a handful of permanent spring-fed waterholes...
Fish > Pygmy Perches
The Ewens Pygmy Perch (Nannoperca variegata) is an exquisite, tiny freshwater teleost confined to an exceptionally limited geographic range in southeastern South Australia and southwestern Victoria. Inhabiting the world-famous, crystal-clear karst limestone springs of...
Fish > Galaxiids
The Flathead Galaxias (Galaxias rostratus) is a critically imperiled small freshwater fish endemic to the lowland floodplain waterways of southeastern Australia’s Murray-Darling river system. Unlike many galaxiids that undertake seasonal migrations to the sea,...
Fish > Percichthyidae
The Clarence River Cod (Maccullochella ikei) is one of Australia’s rarest and most iconic freshwater apex predators. Confined strictly to the rugged, high-gradient mountain river gorges of the upper Clarence River system in northern New South Wales, this stately...
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