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02 February 2012
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02 February 2012
Archives volunteer, Ada Klinkhamer writes of her experience rehousing and documenting photographs and illustrations prepared for use in publications by Australian Museum ornithologist, Alfred John North.
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- This week in Fish: Shark beaching and Cobbler Wobbegong
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: Decline in Natural Resources
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- 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
- The Miss Muriel Snell Collection
- Wobbegong Sharks
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recent comments
Greyface Moray, Gymnothorax thyrsoideus
Hi rling. You are right! Thank you for pointing this out. The spelling of thyrsoideus has been corrected...
Greyface Moray, Gymnothorax thyrsoideus
Apparently a common misspelling of "Gymnothorax thyrsoideus".
http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=399889
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Wanderer Butterfly
The attached picture is of the larval stage of Danaus plexippus, in my garden, in Denmark, Western Australia....




An Australian Angelshark burying itself in the sand
Banded Carpet Shark, Orectolobus halei
Head of a Basking Shark
A Blacktip Reef Shark at Mana Island
Blacktip Reef Shark at Casuarina Beach
A Blind Shark in Nelson Bay
Lateral view of a Blue Shark
Head of an albino Brier Shark
A Brier Shark caught off New South Wales
A Bull Shark underwater
Cobbler Wobbegong, Sutorectus tentaculatus
Cobbler Wobbegong at Port Hughes
A Crested Horn Shark at Macquarie Lighthouse
Dorsal view of a Draughtboard Shark
Dusky Whalers at Alliwal Shoals
Epaulette Shark, Hemiscyllium ocellatum
False Catshark collected by an AFMA observer
Frill Shark
Frill Shark head
A Galapagos Shark at Lord Howe Island