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: First Kidako Moray image
This week sees the addition of some great new movies. The Halfband Snake Eel descending backwards into the sand is pretty amazing. The Lepidion swimming at over a kilometre below the surface is worth a look and the male Pacific Leaping Blenny 'frantically' trying to attract females certainly brought a smile to my face. There are also some great new images. What is possibly the first photo of a live Kidako Moray and the oh-so-cute baby boxfish are just two of a great bunch. Thank you to everyone who contributed.
Movies:
European Carp
Halfband Snake Eel, Malvoliophis pinguis
Lepidion swimming
Male Pacific Leaping Blenny displaying
Images:
Juvenile Shaw's Cowfish
Kidako Moray, Gymnothorax kidako?
Milkfish, Chanos chanos
Sixspine Leatherjacket Meuschenia freycineti
Sixspine Leatherjacket at Montague Island
Young male Sixspine Leatherjacket
Stars-and-stripes Puffer at Black Rocks
Stars-and-stripes Puffer, Arothron hispidus
Tasselsnout Flathead, Thysanophrys cirronasa
Whitebarred Boxfish, Anoplocapros lenticularis
Yellowback Puller, Chromis nitida
Yellowtail Barracuda, Sphyraena obtusata
Factsheet:
Yellowtail Barracuda, Sphyraena obtusata
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Mark McGrouther
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, Kidako Moray,
Juvenile Shaw's Cowfish View full size
Phil Mercurio
© Phil Mercurio
Kidako Moray, Gymnothorax kidako? View full size
Ian Shaw
© Ian Shaw
Tasselsnout Flathead, Thysanophrys cirronasa View full size
Jayne Jenkins
© Jayne Jenkins
Whitebarred Boxfish, Anoplocapros lenticularis View full size
Phil Mercurio
© Phil Mercurio
Yellowtail Barracuda, Sphyraena obtusata View full size
Richard Vevers
© Richard Vevers