Fish species found in NSW coastal waters
These species have been selected by marine scientists to be the target species of the HarbourKeepers and CoastKeepers Fish Survey.
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Port Jackson Shark
Heterodontus portusjacksoni |
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Spotted Wobbegong
Orectolobus maculatus |
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Grey Nurse Shark
Carcharias taurus |
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Eastern Fiddler Ray
Trygonorrhina fasciata |
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Common Stingaree
Trygonoptera testacea |
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Green Moray Eel
Gymnothorax prasinus |
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Sergeant Baker
Aulopus purpurissatus |
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Striped Catfish
Plotosus lineatus |
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Weedy Seadragon Phyllopteryx taeniolatus |
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White's Seahorse |
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Red Rockcod Scorpaena cardinalis |
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Fortescue |
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Half-banded Seapearch |
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Eastern Wirrah Acanthistius ocellatus |
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Black Cod Epinephelus daemelii |
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Eastern Blue Devil Paraplesiops bleekeri |
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Eastern Hulafish |
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Sydney Cardinalfish
Apogon limenus |
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Yellowtail Scad Trachurus novaezelandiae |
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Yellowtail Kingfish Seriola lalandi |
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Silver Trevally |
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Snapper |
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Yellowfin Bream Acanthopagrus australis |
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Tarwhine Rhabdosargus sarba |
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Black-spot Goatfish
Parupeneus spilurus |
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Silver Batfish
Monodactylus argenteus |
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Black-tipped Bullseye
Pempheris affinis |
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Luderick |
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Southern Silver Drummer
Kyphosus sydneyanus |
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Mado Atypichthys strigatus |
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Silver Sweep
Scorpis lineolata |
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Stripey
Microcanthus strigatus |
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Old Wife
Enoplosus armatus |
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White-ear Parma Parma microlepis |
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Girdled Parma |
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Eastern Kelpfish
Chironemus marmoratus |
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Rock Cale
Aplodactylus lophodon |
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Red Morwong Cheilodactylus fuscus |
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Senator Wrasse
Pictilabrus laticlavius |
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Eastern Blue Groper
Achoerodus viridis |
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Snakeskin Wrasse Eupetrichthys angustipes |
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Maori Wrasse Ophthalmolepis lineolatus |
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Crimson-banded Wrasse Notolabrus gymnogenis |
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Comb Wrasse
Coris picta |
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Sawtail Surgeonfish
Prionurus microlepidotus |
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Happy Moments
Siganus nebulosus |
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Six-spine Leatherjacket Meuschenia freycineti |
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Yellow-fin Leatherjacket Meuschenia trachylepis |
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Black Reef Leatherjacket Eubalichthys bucephalus |
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Three-Bar Porcupinefish
Dicotylichthys punctulatus |
Information on parts of fish, check out the
Australian
Musuem Fish Site
For usefull fish terminology, check out the
Australian
Musuem Fish Site
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All fish photos have been kindly donated for use by NPA~Marine. Thanks to David and Leanne Atkinson, Kathryn Chesnut, Lynda Clarke, Tim Hochgrebe, Eric Schlögl, Sacha Schulz, Mike Scotland and Ian Shaw for the use of their underwater photos.
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