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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: Spitting archerfish and 14 movies
This week we show how an archerfish spits. You can watch 14 new movies (thanks Kieren and Krystof) or view many new images, a selection of which are listed below (thanks Colin, Dave, Duncan and Vanessa).
New blog posts:
Archerfish - sharpshooters of the mangroves
Watch a BBC movie clip showing archerfish shooting insects out of overhanging branches. A photo of the mouth of a Sevenspot Archerfish from the Australian Museum Ichthyology Collection shows the structures that allow archerfishes to spite with such accuracy.
Adrian Flynn has provided some more excellent fishy links. View images of a new species of batfish from the Gulf of Mexico, long distance fish travelers and a goby that is doing an important environmental job.
New movies:
Beaked Coralfish in the Gold Coast Seaway
Black Boxfish at Julian Rocks
Dot-and-Dash Butterflyfish at Ribbon Reefs
Doublesaddle Butterflyfish at Agincourt Reef
Dusky Butterflyfish at the Gold Coast Seaway
Goldstripe Butterflyfish at Flinders Reef
Gunther's Butterflyfish at Flinders Reef
Horned Bannerfish at Ribbon Reefs
Klein's Butterflyfish at Flinders Reef
Lattice Butterflyfish at The Cod Hole
Lined Butterflyfish at Ribbon Reefs
Merten's Butterflyfish at Steves Bommie
Shaw's Cowfish at Morning Pier
Smoothnose Wedgefish at Sydney Aquarium
New images:
A deepsea coffinfish on the North West Shelf
Juvenile Rainbow Monocle Bream
Juvenile Two-line Monocle Bream
Larval Pinstripe Butterflyfish
Monkfish, Sladenia gardineri
Mouth of a Sevenspot Archerfish
Shaw's Cowfish, Aracana aurita
Splendid Hawkfish at Fly Point
A Western Blobfishon the North West Shelf
Xanthic Sea Mullet
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Mouth of a Sevenspot Archerfish View full size
Mark McGrouther
© Australian Museum
A Beaked Coralfish at Palau Redang View full size
Erik Schlögl
© Erik Schlögl
Larval Pinstripe Butterflyfish View full size
Colin Wen
© Colin Wen
Juvenile Two-line Monocle Bream View full size
Dave Harasti
© Dave Harasti