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
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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: Triggerfish movies
This week we feature 3 triggerfish movies. Two new blog posts tell us more about the lives of larval fishes and the incredible amalgamation of thee fish families into one. As usual we have posted plenty of new images and combined images of anemonefishes into a gallery.
New blog posts:
Larval fish life - key points from Jeff Leis' latest larval fish paper
More on that amazing discovery - a fantastic review of THAT whalefish paper on the Smithsonian Institution website.
New movies:
Three more movies from Kieren Curry.
Orangestripe Triggerfish, Balistapus undulatus
Redtooth Triggerfish, Odonus niger
Yellowspotted Triggerfish, Pseudobalistes fuscus
New images:
Banded Carpet Shark, Orectolobus halei
Clark's Anemonefish at Hideaway Island
Clark's Anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii
Head of a Longfin Bigeye
Head of a Southern Sand Flathead
Head of a Sandtiger Shark
Juvenile Moonlighter
Longfin Bigeye pelvic fin
Longfin Bigeye, Cookeolus japonicus
Shark skull
Southern Sand Flathead, Platycephalus bassensis
Tail of a Southern Sand Flathead
Yellowspotted Triggerfish, Pseudobalistes fuscus
New image gallery:
Mark McGrouther
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, triggerfishes, fish bits,
Clark's Anemonefish, Amphiprion clarkii View full size
Matt Dowse
© Matt Dowse
Juvenile Moonlighter View full size
David Muirhead
© David Muirhead
Head of a Sandtiger Shark View full size
Ian Merrington
© Ian Merrington, DPI Fisheries
Banded Carpet Shark, Orectolobus halei View full size
Charlie Huveneers
© Charlie Huveneers
Head of a Southern Sand Flathead View full size
John Pogonoski
© John Pogonoski