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: Lots of sharks and Fin Forensics
It has been a 'sharky week' with the addition of images showing a shark bite on a horse (really!), a Prickly Dogfish, and wounds inflicted on larger fishes by Cookiecutter Sharks. Rebecca Johnson from our Genetics Unit deserves another cheer for her TV appearance on Catalyst. Thank you as always to all contributors and to the increasing number of people who are adding comments.
New images:
Brokenline Wrasse, Stethojulis interrupta
Juvenile Brokenline Wrasse
Cookiecutter bite on Shortbill Spearfish
Cookiecutter bites on Yellowfin Tuna
Humpnose Unicornfish, Naso tonganus
Head of a Prickly Dogfish
Prickly Dogfish from NORFANZ
Prickly Dogfish mouth
Prickly Dogfish, Oxynotus bruniensis
Shark wound on horse (image only in comment on Bull Shark page)
Southern Conger from Batemans Bay
New species index:
Work continues on the Find a Fish list. A link to the was added to the Synaphobranchidae - Basketwork Eels
New vistors:
TAFE fish collection tour 2011
New Fish Bits post:
Fin forensics and the fish collection (Rebecca and Mark on Catalyst)
Mark McGrouther
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Head of a Prickly Dogfish View full size
Carl Bento
© Australian Museum
Cookiecutter Shark bites on Yellowfin Tuna View full size
Kevin Rowling
© Kevin Rowling
Brokenline Wrasse, Stethojulis interrupta View full size
Dave Harasti
© Dave Harasti
Humpnose Unicornfish, Naso tonganus View full size
Tom Davis
© Tom Davis