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Image Gallery: Quick tour of the fish collection
Behind the public front of the Australian Museum lies one of its greatest assets, the collections.
The fish collection is stored in four separate areas on the College St site and one off-site facility.
This gallery shows images taken in the collection.
news
Karen Player
13 February 2012
With 300 boxes booked already, 2012 is shaping up to be a very busy year.
Laura Williams
13 February 2012
Lady Tunakaimanu Feilakepa is renowned and greatly respected for her traditional cultural knowledge in Tonga and across the Pacific. Here she discusses Tongan mats, a decline in natural materials and the value of viewing such a collection.
what's new
- What's in the Box - are you ready for 2012
- Incredible Barreleye video
- This week in Fish: Shark beaching and Cobbler Wobbegong
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: Decline in Natural Resources
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: Handicrafts
- Blacktip Reef Shark at Casuarina Beach
- Spangled Emperor from near the Solitary Islands
- X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: Ngatu
- The Power of X-rays
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- Warty Prowfish, Aetapcus maculatus (Günther, 1861)
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- Palorchestes: A tale of misidentification
- Birds: Aves
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The pallet racking system in the tank area
Large fishes are stored in drums and tanks
Coolbins are used to store large specimens
White Shark tank in the tank area
A view of the tank area
A White Shark in the tank area
Fishes in the tank area
A Goblin Shark in the tank area
Tank filled with fish specimens
Head of a Bull Shark
Fish Collection shelving units
Fish Collection shelving
Looking through rows of shelves
Part of the Fish Collection
The basement level of the Spirit House
The head of Carcharias malabaricus
Shelves of small specimen jars
A typical jar in the fish collection
Vials of larval fishes waiting to be processed
A jar of leptocephali