Fish Bits
Photos, visitors, weird and wonderful specimens, news from the field.
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Mark McGrouther
Collection Manager, Ichthyology
Amanda Hay
Technical Officer, Ichthyology
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Fish Bits
- Apr 2012
- Mar 2012
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Feb 2012
- 'Water squirting' Common Lionfish
- This week in fish: Warty Anglerfish
- This week in Fish: Incredible Barreleye and a huge shark tooth
- Incredible Barreleye video
- This week in Fish: Shark beaching and Cobbler Wobbegong
- The Power of X-rays
- Southern Garfish, Hyporhamphus melanochir
- This week in Fish: First specimen of Denise's Pygmy Seahorse
- May 2012
- Jan 2012
- Dec 2011
- Nov 2011
- Sep 2011
- Aug 2011
- Jul 2011
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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?
- This week in Fish: Back to reality
- Kermadec wrap-up
- 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
- Fin forensics and the fish collection
- This week in Fish: undescribed anglerfish and bellowsfish
- This week in Fish: Find a fish launched
- Mar 2011
- Feb 2011
- Jan 2011
- Dec 2010
- Nov 2010
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Oct 2010
- This week in Fish: Scalloped Hammerhead
- This week in Fish: Flyingfishes in flight
- This week in Fish: Grow a backbone!
- 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
- This week in Fish: White Shark and sleeping fishes
- Deepsea trench research trip
- This week in Fish: Toxin glands and a meal to die for
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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
- Jul 2010
- Jun 2010
- May 2010
- Apr 2010
- Mar 2010
This week in Fish: Eel with a 'fishing rod tongue'
It's been a massive movie week! Also featured this week are fantastic images in the Whitespotted Anglerfish gallery. The 'strangest-fish-of-the-week' award has to go to Glenoglossa wassi. This eel lacks a common name and has a tongue like a fishing rod.
New movies:
Thank you to Fish Expert Kieren Curry for his ongoing support.
Blue Razorfish at Julian Rocks
Brokenline Wrasse, Stethojulis interrupta
Cloud Wrasse at Julian Rocks
Clown Wrasse, Coris gaimard
Cockerel Wrasse, Pteragogus enneacanthus
Coral Pigfish, Bodianus axillaris
Crimsonband Wrasse, Notolabrus gymnogenis
Diamond Wrasse at Julian Rocks
Diana's Pigfish, Bodianus diana
Eastern Blue Groper, Achoerodus viridis
Elegant Wrasse at Julian Rocks
Goldspot Pigfish, Bodianus perditio
Graphic Tuskfish, Choerodon graphicus
Gunther's Wrasse, Pseudolabrus guentheri
Humphead Maori Wrasse at Agincourt Reef
Jansen's Wrasse at Flinders Reef
Leopard Wrasse at Julian Rocks
Luculent Wrasse at Fish Rock
Moon Wrasse, Thalassoma lunare
Pinklined Wrasse at Julian Rocks
Purple Tuskfish at Curtain Reef
Redblotched Wrasse, Coris aygula
Redspot Wrasse at Julian Rocks
Southern Maori Wrasse at Shark Point
New images:
Eastern Shovelnose Ray
Glenoglossa wassi
Male Herring Cale
Rodless Anglerfish carrying eggs
New image gallery:
John Lewis' images were just crying out to be the subject of an image gallery.
New fact sheet:
Snubnose Eel, Simenchelys parasitica
Past student:
Mark McGrouther
, Collection Manager, Ichthyology
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, glenoglossa wassi, Whitespotted Anglerfish,
Glenoglossa wassi View full size
Jeff Williams
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Rodless Anglerfish, Histiophryne cryptacanthus View full size
John Lewis
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Whitespotted Anglerfish at Edithburgh View full size
John Lewis
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Head of a Snubnose Eel View full size
Kerry Parkinson
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Ash Fowler
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