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Australian Fish

Freshwater eels [Order: Anguilliformes, Family: Anguillidae]
The Longfinned Eel has a broad head, strong pectoral fins and a large mouth with fleshy lips. It has olive or brown blotches on the back and sides, with paler underside. The fins are brown and...
Longfinned Eel
(Anguilla reinhardtii)

Congers [Order: Anguilliformes, Family: Congridae]

Spotted Garden Eel
(Heteroconger hassi)

Moray eels [Order: Anguilliformes, Family: Muraenidae]
The Dragon Moray eel has vivid orange and white markings on the head. The body is orange with white and brown spots. The jaws are narrow and curved, and nostrils are elongated and tubular. This eel...
Dragon Moray Eel
(Enchelycore pardalis)
Abbott's Moray
(Gymnothorax eurostus)
Fimbriate Moray
(Gymnothorax fimbriatus)
Giant Moray
(Gymnothorax javanicus)

Green Moray
(Gymnothorax prasinus)
Greyface Moray Eel
(Gymnothorax thyrsoideus)
Saw-tooth Moray
(Gymnothorax prionodon)
Tessellate Moray
(Gymnothorax favagineus)

Whitemouth Moray
(Gymnothorax meleagris)
Ribbon Eel
(Rhinomuraena quaesita)

Lizardfishes. [Order: Aulopiformes, Family: Synodontidae]

Variegated Lizardfish
(Synodus variegatus)

Fangtooth [Order: Beryciformes, Family: Anoplogasteridae]
The Fangtooth is a carnivorous fish with a large mouth and long sharp curved teeth. The body is black or dark brown. The lateral line is an open groove with some bridging scales. The eye is small....
Fangtooth
(Anoplogaster cornuta)

Soldierfishes, squirrelfishes [Order: Beryciformes, Family: Holocentridae]

Spotfin Squirrelfish
(Neoniphon sammara)
Sabre Squirrelfish
(Sargocentron spiniferum)

Pineconefishes [Order: Beryciformes, Family: Monocentridae]
The pineapplefish has a distinctive pineapple pattern created by its large scales with black margins. The background colour varies from yellow to orange. It has a light organ on the sides of the...
Pineapplefish
(Cleidopus gloriamaris)

Redfishes, slime heads, roughies [Order: Beryciformes, Family: Trachichthyidae]

Orange Roughy
(Hoplostethus atlanticus)

Wolf herring [Order: Clupeiformes, Family: Chirocentridae]
The Dorab Wolf Herring has an elongated body covered with small scales. It has a single dorsal fin and anal fin positioned in the back half of the body. The mouth tilts upward and has large canine...
Dorab Wolf Herring
(Chirocentrus dorab)

Loaches [Order: Cypriniformes, Family: Cobitidae]

Oriental Weatherloach
(Misgurnus anguillicaudatus)

Carps and minnows [Order: Cypriniformes, Family: Cyprinidae]
The Carp is a native of Asia, but has been introduced widely to other countries including Australia. The Carp has small eyes, thick lips with two barbels (like little whiskers) at each corner of the...
Carp
(Cyprinus carpio)

Morid cods or moras [Order: Gadiformes, Family: Moridae]

Beardie
(Lotella rhacina)

Dragonfishes and sea moths [Order: Gasterosteiformes, Family: Pegasidae]
The Little Dragonfish is extremely well camouflaged and can resemble pieces of shell or rubble. It can be very difficult to see underwater because of its camouflage. Males have a broad bluish white...
Little Dragonfish
(Eurypegasus draconis)

Opahs [Order: Lampriformes, Family: Lampridae]

Opah
(Lampris guttatus)

Oarfishes [Order: Lampriformes, Family: Regalecidae]

Oarfish
(Regalecus glesne)

Anglerfish [Order: Lophiiformes, Family: Antennariidae]
The Painted Anglerfish is a lumpy looking fish. It is variable in colour and can be red, orange, yellow, green, brown or black. It sometimes has saddle-like markings on the back. The pectoral fins...
Painted Anglerfish
(Antennarius pictus) 		The Striped Anglerfish is variable in colour and can be light yellow, orange, green, gray or brown. IT has black stripes or elongated blotches. The eye has prominent lines radiating from it. The...
Striped Anglerfish
(Antennarius striatus)
Blackspot Anglerfish
(Tathicarpus butleri)

Fanfins [Order: Lophiiformes, Family: Caulophrynidae]
The Fanfin Anglerfish is a rounded fish with fan shaped dorsal and anal fins. It has a spine above the eyes (the illicium) with a fleshy growth (the esca) at the tip of the spine. The spine can be...
Fanfin Anglerfish
(Caulophryne jordani)

Sea devils [Order: Lophiiformes, Family: Ceratiidae]
The Triplewart Seadevil has a huge head compared with body. The mouth is upturned and the eye is small. It has a small pectoral fin and three club-like warty lumps on its back in front of the dorsal...
Triplewart Seadevil
(Cryptopsaras couesii)

Leafvent anglers [Order: Lophiiformes, Family: Linophrynidae]

Soft Leafvent Angler
(Haplophryne mollis)

Black seadevils [Order: Lophiiformes, Family: Melanocetidae]

Murray's Abyssal Anglerfish
(Melanocetus murrayi)

Batfishes [Order: Lophiiformes, Family: Ogcocephalidae]

Starry Batfish
(Halieutaea stellata)

Surgeonfishes [Order: Perciformes, Family: Acanthuridae]
The Brown Surgeonfish is a fairly drab brown or purple brown colour with small orange spots on its head and throat. The lips are dark brown or black. It has a black spot on the base of the dorsal...
Brown Surgeonfish
(Acanthurus nigrofuscus) 		The Convict Surgeonfish is olive grey with four vertical black stripes on the body, one on the head, and a short stripe on the tail stem. The background color is whiter on the belly, and there is...
Convict Surgeonfish
(Acanthurus triostegus) 		The Dark Surgeon is gray, blue or brownish with a yellow spot behind the eye. The tail is blue with a white bar at the base of the tail. There is a lighter blue-gray patch around mouth.
Dark Surgeon
(Acanthurus blochii) 		The Eye stripe Surgeonfish has a yellow brown to gray brown body with fine with irregular blue lines . It has a yellow spot behind the eye, and a yellow band through the eye. The dorsal and anal fins...
Eyestripe Surgeonfish
(Acanthurus dussumieri)
The adult Orangeband Surgeonfish is grayish brown. The head and front half of the body are paler than the back half of the body with a well defined separation of the two shades. There is a bright...
Orangeband Surgeonfish
(Acanthurus olivaceus) 		The Striped Surgeonfish has a yellowish head and body with prominent horizontal blue stripes edged with black. On the head, the stripes converge around the eye. The lower part of the body is pale...
Striped Surgeonfish
(Acanthurus lineatus)
Bluespine Unicornfish
(Naso unicornis)
Whitemargin Unicornfish
(Naso annulatus)
The Blue Tang is well known as Dory, the forgetful fish from the Disney/Pixar movie
Blue Tang
(Paracanthurus hepatus)
Sailfin Tang
(Zebrasoma veliferum)

Cardinalfishes [Order: Perciformes, Family: Apogonidae]
The adult Ring-tail Cardinalfish is yellow to orange brown with greyish brown back. It has iridescent thin blue lines from the snout through the eyes, with black band between the blue lines. There is...
Ring-tail Cardinalfish
(Apogon aureus)

Blennies [Order: Perciformes, Family: Blenniidae]
The Bicolor Blenny occurs in three colour forms. One form is black at the front and yellow or orange at the back (the bicolor phase). The second form is dark brown all over. The third form is black...
Bicolor Blenny
(Ecsenius bicolor)
Yellowtail Fang Blenny
(Meiacanthus atrodorsalis)
Horned Blenny
(Parablennius intermedius)
Bluestriped Fangblenny
(Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos)

Piano Fangblenny
(Plagiotremus tapeinosoma)

Jacks [Order: Perciformes, Family: Carangidae]
The Pennantfish is a diamond shaped silver fish. Juvenile Pennantfish have long filaments trailing from their dorsal and anal fins. Adults do not have these filaments. Their are two species of...
Pennantfish
(Alectis ciliaris)




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