Interesting Info The Bloomfield River Cod is one of the rarest and most geographically restricted cod species in Australia, found only in the Bloomfield River system in far north Queensland, just south of Cooktown. Their body is olive-green to dark…
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Interesting Info Beady Pipefish are found across the Indo-Pacific, including much of northern Australia from Western Australia to Queensland. They are a slender, elongated fish from the Syngnathidae family, which also includes seahorses and seadragons. It gets its name from…
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Interesting Info The Short-tail Pipefish is a slender, stick-like fish belonging to the Syngnathidae family, which includes seahorses, pipefish, and seadragons. The species has a very wide range — found across the Indo-Pacific, including northern Australia (Queensland, Northern Territory, Western…
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Interesting Info The Madura Pipefish is a slender, elongated fish in the Syngnathidae family, which also includes seahorses and seadragons. They are found throughout the Indo-Pacific, including northern Australia (Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia). Its scientific name heptagonus means “seven-angled,”…
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Interesting Info The Saltpan Sole is a small species of flatfish in the tongue sole family (Cynoglossidae) and is endemic to northern Australia. They occur across northern Australia, including the Kimberley region, Northern Territory rivers, Gulf of Carpentaria, and Cape…
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Interesting Info The Freshwater Sole is a small flatfish in the tongue sole family (Cynoglossidae) and is found in northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea. They they occur from the Kimberley region (WA), across the Top End (NT), through…
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Interesting Info The Twospine Blackfish is a small, secretive freshwater fish found in the upland rivers and creeks of southeastern Australia, mainly in Victoria and southern New South Wales. It gets its name from the two spines at the front…
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Interesting Info The Blue Mountains Perch is a newly recognised freshwater fish from the Hawkesbury–Nepean and Shoalhaven River systems in New South Wales. For years it was thought to be a population of the Macquarie Perch (Macquaria australasica), but new…
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Interesting Info The Oxleyan Pygmy Perch is one of Australia’s rarest freshwater fish, found only in a tiny stretch of coastal wetlands in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland. Their bodies are olive to golden-brown, often with darker blotches,…
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Interesting Info The Balston’s Pygmy Perch is found only in the far southwest corner of Western Australia, making it a true local treasure.. Despite their size, they are striking fish, with golden-brown bodies covered in speckles, and males sometimes show…
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Interesting Info The Nightfish is a freshwater fish found only in the rivers and wetlands of southwestern Western Australia, making it an endemic species. They are a deep-bodied fish, coloured dark brown to olive with mottled markings, giving them excellent…
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Interesting Info The Australian Bass is a prized native freshwater fish found in coastal rivers and streams of eastern Australia, from Bundaberg in Queensland down to Wilsons Promontory in Victoria. Their body is deep and streamlined, coloured dark olive to…
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Interesting Info The Little Pygmy Perch is one of the smallest freshwater fish in Australia, with adults reaching only 3–4 cm (1.2–1.6 in) in length. It was only formally recognised as a new species in 2013, after scientists realised populations…
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Interesting Info The Southern Saratoga is a striking freshwater fish found naturally in the Fitzroy River system in central Queensland, though it has been stocked into dams and impoundments across the state for recreational fishing. Their bodies are long and…
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Interesting Info The Freshwater Moray is one of the few moray eels that regularly ventures into freshwater rivers and streams, though it also lives in estuaries and coastal waters. In Australia, it is recorded mainly from Queensland, the Northern Territory,…
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Interesting Info The Pinkeye Mullet is a unique mullet found only in eastern Australia, ranging from the Clarence River in New South Wales north to the Fitzroy River in Queensland. Unlike most mullets, which live mainly in estuaries and coastal…
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Interesting Info The Shorthead Lamprey is a primitive, eel-like fish that are found in coastal rivers and estuaries from southern Queensland through New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and eastern South Australia. It belongs to the jawless fish group (Agnatha), which…
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Interesting Info The Salamanderfish is a living fossil, belonging to its very own family (Lepidogalaxiidae) — it has no close relatives alive today. Found only in a small region of southwestern Western Australia, it lives in seasonal swamps, peat flats,…
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Interesting Info The Opal Cling Goby is found in Queensland and Northern Territory coastal streams, usually close to rainforest or rocky headwaters. Males are especially colourful, with iridescent blue-green and opal-like flashes along their bodies, contrasted with black bands and…
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Interesting Info The Roman-nose Goby is found in northern Queensland rivers, especially the wet tropics and Cape York Peninsula, extending into parts of Papua New Guinea and other Indo-Pacific regions. It gets its name from its prominent arched head profile,…
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Interesting Info The Emerald Cling Goby lives in the Wet Tropics south of Cairns, where it inhabits short, steep coastal creeks at 40–200 m elevation. Outside of Australia, the species is also found in Papua New Guinea, West Papua (Indonesia),…
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Interesting Info The Goby (Sicyopus discordipinnis) is a tiny freshwater fish found only in short, coastal rainforest streams of northern Queensland, making it an Australian endemic with a very restricted range. Males are striking, with a dark body and brilliant…
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Interesting Info The Ocellated River Goby is found in tidal rivers and freshwater creeks of Queensland, the Northern Territory, and northern Western Australia. In addition to Australia, they are distributed widely across the Indo-West Pacific, from India and Southeast Asia…
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Interesting Info The Scaleless Goby is a small, bottom-dwelling goby found only in a few rainforest streams of northern Queensland, making it a true Australian endemic. As its name suggests, it is completely scaleless, unlike most fish, which gives it…
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