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  • Apr 2012
    • This week in Fish: Stephanie and Spadenose Clingfish
    • Large Muraenid Leptocephali
  • Mar 2012
    • This week in Fish: Incredible eel movie
    • This week in Fish: Bridled Clingfish
    • Mating Numbfish
    • This week in Fish: Fish eyes through the lens
    • This week in Fish: Sawfish saw in action
    • Sawfish saw in action
    • Larval basslet movies
    • This week in Fish: Fan-finned mullet
    • Larval whalefish at Apo Island
  • 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
    • Grey Carpetshark senses
  • Jan 2012
    • This week in Fish: More from the field
    • This week in Fish: Pipefish close up
    • This week in Fish: Shorthead Seahorse and Saddled Snake Eel
    • This week in Fish: Octopus mimic
    • Eagle rays in the shallows
    • Saddled Snake Eel, Leiuranus semicinctus
    • Fish mimicking octopus mimicking fish!
  • Dec 2011
    • This week in Fish: 2011 - it was a big year!
    • This week in Fish: First live photos of a Monte Bello Seahorse
    • This week in Fish: Hagfish movie and Red Bass
  • Nov 2011
    • This week in Fish: Murray Cod Movie
    • This week in Fish: Hagfishes - masters of defence
    • Amazing new hagfish behaviour
    • Threadfin Seasnail swimming at 2400 m!
    • 'Living fossil' eel in an undersea cave
  • Sep 2011
    • This week in Fish: Dani, Fanny and Emperors
    • This week in Fish: Bastard Trumpeter and Childish Pearleye
    • This week in Fish: First Kidako Moray image
    • This week in Fish: Vale - Dr Robert McDowall
  • Aug 2011
    • This week in Fish: Martin and Carl visiting
    • This week in Fish: Incredible! A new fish family.
    • This week in Fish: Floating snailfish and lethal headband
    • This week in Fish: Spiderfish swimming
    • Batfish in Sydney Harbour
  • Jul 2011
    • This week in fish: Steen and the Spookfish
    • This week in Fish: Deepsea fish with four eyes?
    • Pacific Leaping Blenny doing its thing
  • 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
    • Kermadec Update
    • The Kermadec Blog and a rare Monkfish
    • Shark blood production
  • 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
    • This week in Fish: Ellie the eel
    • An eel called Ellie
    • Southerly Sargassum Anglerfish
    • This week in Fish: Shark in trouble
    • Do you really need that shopping bag?
    • This week in Fish: Southern Smiler
    • You're toasted!
  • Feb 2011
    • This week in Fish: Electric rays and tsunami hoax
    • This week in Fish: A lost Mozambique Seabream
    • This week in Fish: Small fishes and shark ageing
    • This week in Fish: Red Handfish and lumpfish
    • Common and Standard Names
    • Eastern Blue Groper and Striped Catfish
  • Jan 2011
    • This week in Fish: Hiro and White Shark Jaws
  • Dec 2010
    • This week in Fish: Purple Flying Gurnard
    • This week in Fish: Little Dragonfish
    • This week in Fish: New fish list
  • Nov 2010
    • Fish Collection tour
    • This week in Fish: First Black Marlin
    • This week in Fish: Cod and Galaxias
    • This week in Fish: Triggerfish movies
    • More on that amazing discovery
    • This week in Fish: Flatworm mimic and shark teeth
    • Dangerous times for Stripey Snappers
  • 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
  • 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
    • The exciting life of Anglerfishes
    • This week in Fish: Mr Blobby on the Gruen Transfer
  • 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
    • This week in Fish: Dangerous times for divers and small fishes
    • Fantastic fish links from Pelagos
    • This week in Fish: Hagfish slime and parasitic males
    • Strange eel from the collection
    • Who's the slimiest fish of all?
  • Jun 2010
    • Rebecca leaves us
    • This week in Fish: Yellowfin Tuna and heaps of movies
    • This week in Fish: Massive eel and Fish Dissection
    • This week in Fish: Mystery skeleton and great images
  • May 2010
    • This week in Fish: Parental care damselfishes and Leatherjacket Louse
    • This week in Fish: Nemo look-alike and many new pages
    • This week in Fish: Rebecca Field and a deepsea fish
  • Apr 2010
    • This week in Fish: Tongue Biters and an incredible spiderfish larva
    • This week in Fish: Robust Ghostpipefish and Banded Humbugs
    • This week in Fish: Tasselled Anglerfish and rockclimbing fish
  • Mar 2010
    • This week in Fish: Whiskered Prowfish and Weedy Seadragon mortality
    • This week in Fish: Visiting researchers and Weeping Toadfish predators
    • This week in Fish: Lost Barramundi and a new Research Associate
    • Welcome to Fish Bits
    • Barramundi mystery solved

This week in Fish: Martin and Carl visiting

Mark McGrouther , Collection Manager, Ichthyology
Last Updated: 26 August 2011

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