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

Southern Red Scorpionfish

Scorpaena papillosa

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Southern Sand Flathead

Platycephalus bassensis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Southern School Whiting

Sillago bassensis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Tasmanian Blenny

Parablennius tasmanianus

A smalll long transparent fish underwater

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Tasmanian Whitebait

Lovettia sealii

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Platycephalus richardsoni

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Toothbrush Leatherjacket

Acanthaluteres vittiger

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Galaxias truttaceus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Velvet Leatherjacket

Meuschenia scaber

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Western Australian Salmon

Arripis truttaceus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Yelloweye Mullet

Aldrichetta forsteri

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Yellowstriped Leatherjacket

Meuschenia flavolineata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Girella zebra

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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 small brown and white crab underwater

Three-Pronged Spider Crab Halicarcinus ovatus

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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