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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Yellow coloured fish between two rocks

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Parma victoriae

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Scorpis aequipinnis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Pictilabrus laticlavius

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Latropiscis purpurissatus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Aracana aurita

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Short-finned eel

Anguilla australis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Scorpis lineolata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Silver Trevally

Pseudocaranx georgianus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Parequula melbournensis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Sixspine Leatherjacket

Meuschenia freycineti

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Smooth Toadfish

Tetractenos glaber

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Chrysophrys auratus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Sphyraena novaehollandiae

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Southern Bluespotted Flathead

Platycephalus speculator

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Southern Garfish

Hyporhamphus melanochir

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Southern Pygmy Perch

Nannoperca australis

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Thin white bivalve shells laying on sand

Limaria imitans

Limaria imitans a marine bivalve species washed up along Tomahawk Beach

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

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

Hermit crab in a shell underwater

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