Species Guide — Marine Life — Fish

Marine
Life

Subcategory: Fish
Fish both salt and fresh water that can be found around Tasmania

Fish

77 species documented

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Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Common Shore Eel

Alabes dorsalis

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Common Weedfish

Heteroclinus perspicillatus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Pseudaphritis urvillii

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Bovichtus angustifrons

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Platycephalus fuscus

A silvery fish with golden spots underwater

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Dactylophora nigricans

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Eastern Australian Salmon

Arripis trutta

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Nesogobius maccullochi

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Diodon nicthemerus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Greenback Flounder

Rhombosolea tapirina

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Olisthops cyanomelas

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Horseshoe Leatherjacket

Meuschenia hippocrepis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Johnston's Weedfish

Heteroclinus johnstoni

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

King George Whiting

Sillaginodes punctatus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Little Weed Whiting

Neoodax balteatus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Dinolestes lewini

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A marine flatworm on a rock underwater

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii)

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii) <br><br> https://tomahawk.org.au/flora-fauna/view-species/thysanozoon-brocchii

Thin white bivalve shells laying on sand

Limaria imitans

Limaria imitans a marine bivalve species washed up along Tomahawk Beach

Hermit crab in a shell underwater

A small hermit crab species this guy is under 10mm in size

A sea-slug on a rock underwater

Macleay’s sea-slug (Baeolidia macleayi)

Macleay’s sea-slug (Baeolidia macleayi)<br><br> https://tomahawk.org.au/flora-fauna/view-species/baeolidia-macleayi