With your help, Redmap will be tracking the following fish around Australia. Some of these fish may be common along your coastline - but have you spotted any that aren't normally found at your local diving, fishing or swimming spots? Redmap is interested in sightings where fish have ventured away from their usual home range. You can sort this list by region and fish species or common name. And just a short note: when we talk about "fish", technically we're talking about "bony fishes" (not sharks and rays which have cartilaginous skeletons!). Bony fishes are the biggest and most diverse group of vertebrate in the world.

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  Barramundi

  Lates calcarifer

  Adults: Barramundi are an iconic Australian estuarine and freshwater species. Their colour is silver to bronze, with dark brown/black fins…

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  Golden snapper

  Lutjanus johnii

  Golden snapper are typically a yellow colour with a bronze/silvery sheen, and a whiter colour on the belly. They have a big black blotch on…

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  Meyer's butterflyfish

  Chaetodon meyeri

  The scrawled butterflyfish has dark black diagonal bands running across its body. It is a whitish or blue-white colour, with a light pelvic…

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  Blueface Angelfish

  Pomacanthus xanthometopon

  The Blueface Angelfish has a distinctive blue mesh-like mask on its face and cheeks with a yellow band across its eye and a blue spot on th…

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  Lattice Butterflyfish

  Chaetodon rafflesii

  The Lattice Butterflyfish is a uniformly bright yellow reef fish with a pineapple-like pattern on the sides, a blue forehead with a black v…

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  Spine-cheek Clownfish

  Premnas biaculeatus

  The Spine-cheek Clownfish is a bright red-brown anemonefish with three narrow white-to-grey bands on the head and body and a large rearward…

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  Barcheek Trevally

  Craterognathus plagiotaenia

  Barcheek Trevally are a prized gamefish commonly caught on hook-and-line, bottom trawls and by spearfisherman. They are a highly reflective…

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  Midnight Snapper

  Macolor macularis

  Adult Midnight Snapper, also known as a Midnight Seaperch, are a dark fish distinguished from M. niger by their bright yellow-gold iris, ye…

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  Redtail Parrotfish

  Chlorurus japanensis

  The Red-tailed Parrotfish is widely distributed across the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Females are a solid dark-brown colour with a dis…

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  Eastern Clown Anemonefish

  Amphiprion percula

  The Eastern Clown Anemonefish, known for it’s appearance in Disney’s “Finding Nemo”, is orange with three thick white vertical bars across …

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  Crimson Snapper

  Lutjanus erythropterus

  The Crimson Snapper, also commonly known as the Crimson Seaperch, is a pinky-red to silver fish, often with a light vertical patch behind t…

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  Oblique-banded Sweetlips

  Plectorhinchus lineatus

  Oblique-banded Sweetlips have a pale grey body with long oblique black bands along the face and back. The fins of this fish are bright yell…

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  Common Coral Trout

  Plectropomus leopardus

  Common Coral Trout are a bright red-orange fish with small dense blue spots across the entire body and a light blue right around the eyes. …

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  Rusty Jobfish

  Aphareus rutilans

  The Rusty Jobfish is a large blueish-grey to mauve or red coloured fish found in reefs and rocky bottom areas down to 100m. Rusty Jobfish h…

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  Maori Snapper

  Lutjanus rivulatus

  Maori Snapper are silvery green-blue with long narrow light blue lines on the face, small light blue spots across the body and tail and yel…