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- 'Water squirting' Common Lionfish
- This week in fish: Warty Anglerfish
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- This week in Fish: Shark beaching and Cobbler Wobbegong
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Jun 2011
- This week in Fish: Pacific Leaping Blenny
- Spikefin Goby, Discordipinna griessingeri
- Huge Oarfish in the shallows
- Dusky Whaler juveniles in Sydney 2011
- This week in Fish: Moorish Idols and sponge eaters
- Which fishes eat sponges?
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- This week in Fish: Baby Batfish
- May 2011
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Apr 2011
- This week in Fish: Pineapplefish and Surf Sardine
- Dolphins at Manly
- This week in Fish: Whale Shark sighting
- Whale Shark in Botany Bay - April 2011
- This week in Fish: Lots of sharks and Fin Forensics
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- This week in Fish: undescribed anglerfish and bellowsfish
- This week in Fish: Find a fish launched
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Oct 2010
- This week in Fish: Scalloped Hammerhead
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- Grow a backbone!
- This week in Fish: Suckling fish
- A fish that suckles its young
- This week in Fish: Baby shark cannibals
- What's in a name?
- BBC Life - Weedy Seadragon footage
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- Deepsea trench research trip
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Sep 2010
- This week in Fish: Eel with a 'fishing rod tongue'
- This week in Fish: Candiru and Slingjaw Wrasse
- Slingjaw Wrasse feeding
- Humphead Maori Wrasse - up close and personal
- Candiru - careful where you go...
- This week in Fish: Deepsea anglerfishes and the Lilac-tip Basslet
- Psychedelic frogfish makes a splash
- This week in Fish: Shrek Fish, Frill and Megamouth Sharks
- Asian Sheepshead Wrasse
- Oct 2011
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Aug 2010
- Frill Shark in Japan
- Megamouth Shark movie
- This week in Fish: Fantastic fish feeding footage
- Fantastic fish feeding footage
- This week in Fish: BBC Life and Banggai Cardinalfish
- BBC Life - Convict Fish footage
- BBC Life - Flyingfish footage
- BBC Life - Sailfish feeding
- Swimming with a Whale Shark
- White Sharks aren't mindless killers
- Fangtooth feeding
- Sandtiger Shark Ultrasound
- This week in Fish: Spitting archerfish and 14 movies
- Archerfishes - sharpshooters of the mangroves
- More news from Pelagos
- Sixgill Shark attacks bait
- This week in Fish: Old content becomes new
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BBC Life - Convict Fish footage
Convict Fish dig extensive tunnel networks from which huge numbers of striped juveniles emerge. This spectacular footage from the BBC Life series showcases the species.
The common name of the Convict Fish, Pholidichthys leucotaenia, refers to colouration of the juvenile fish which is said to resemble the striped clothes of a convict. Juveniles are black with a white horizontal stripe from eye to tail. They look a little like juvenile Striped Catfish, Plotosus lineatus.
The species has been called by many names, including the Convict Goby, Engineer Goby, Convict Blenny, Engineer Blenny, Convict Worm Goby, Pacific Neon Goby and Convict Worm Blenny. Perhaps surprisingly it is neither a goby or a true blenny (Family Blenniidae) but one of the Convict Blennies (Family Pholidichthyidae).
The Australian Museum Ichthyology Collection contains 44 larval and juvenile specimens of P. leucotaenia. The collection currently contains no adults.
Mark McGrouther
, Collection Manager, Ichthyology
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Tags Convict Fish, Pholidichthys leucotaenia, Pholidichthyidae, fishes, ichthyology,
Striped Catfish at Camp Cove View full size
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