Species Guide — Marine Life

Marine
Life

The species that can be found in our waterways and the sea

Marine Life

409 species documented

Filter All Fish Crabs & Allies Sponges & Seaweeds Sharks & Rays Whales & Dolphins Octopus & Squid Sea Stars Jelly fish Shellfish Other

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Little Sponge Creeper

Ataxocerithium serotinum

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Little Weed Whiting

Neoodax balteatus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Little White Tellen

Tellinota albinella

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Liverwort Seaweed

Dictyosphaeria sericea

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Long Dove Shell

Mitrella tenuis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Dinolestes lewini

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Longsnout Boarfish

Pentaceropsis recurvirostris

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Longsnout Flounder

Ammotretis rostratus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Macleay’s sea-slug

Baeolidia macleayi

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Atypichthys strigatus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Cheilodactylus nigripes

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Maltese Cross Limpet

Patelloida insignis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Mangrove Air Breather

Ophicardelus ornatus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Many-armed Seastar

Allostichaster polyplax

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Aplodactylus arctidens

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Marine Pill Bug

Zuzara venosa

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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

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

A small brown and white crab underwater

Three-Pronged Spider Crab Halicarcinus ovatus

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