Crested Bullhead Shark

Fish > Bullhead Sharks

The Crested Bullhead Shark (Heterodontus galeatus) is an ancient, bottom-dwelling chondrichthyan endemic to the temperate and subtropical rocky reefs of eastern Australia. Distinguished by pronounced cranial ridges that rise dramatically above each eye, this harmless...

Yellow Prawn Goby

Fish > Gobies

The Yellow Prawn Goby (Cryptocentrus cinctus) is an enchanting reef-dwelling fish famous across marine ecology for forming mutualistic cross-phylum partnerships with alpheid snapping shrimps. Perched alertly at the entrance of their shared subterranean burrow, the...

Robust Ghost Pipefish

Fish > Ghost Pipefishes

The Robust Ghost Pipefish (Solenostomus cyanopterus) is a master of marine crypsis inhabiting the warm coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific. A close evolutionary relative of true pipefishes and seahorses, this species drifts head-downward through sheltered seagrass...

Giant Banjo Frog

Amphibians > Burrowing Frogs

The Giant Banjo Frog (Limnodynastes interioris) is a robust, terrestrial burrowing amphibian native to the expansive floodplains of the Murray-Darling Basin in southeastern Australia. Celebrated for its explosive breeding events following erratic inland rains, it...

Turtle Frog

Amphibians > Frogs

The Turtle Frog (Myobatrachus gouldii) is one of the world’s most anatomically peculiar amphibians, endemic to the sandy soils of southwestern Western Australia. Resembling a tiny, shell-less turtle with muscular limbs, this subterranean oddity is the sole...