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Scissortail sergeant ( Abudefduf sexfasciatus )
Indo-Pacific sergeant ( Abudefduf vaigiensis )
Crown-of-thorns seastar ( Acanthaster planci )
Eastern wirrah ( Acanthistius ocellatus )
Western wirrah ( Acanthistius serratus )
Western yellowfin bream ( Acanthopagrus morrisoni )
Western blue groper ( Achoerodus gouldii )
Eastern blue groper ( Achoerodus viridis )
Warty prowfish ( Aetapcus maculatus )
Pacific bonefish ( Albula argentea )
Eastern Clown Anemonefish ( Amphiprion percula )
Whitebarred boxfish ( Anoplocapros lenticularis )
Rusty Jobfish ( Aphareus rutilans )
Rock cale ( Aplodactylus lophodon )
Green jobfish ( Aprion virescens )
Firebrick seastar ( Asterodiscides truncatus )
Mado ( Atypichthys strigatus )
Frigate mackerel ( Auxis thazard )
Blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus )
Coral pigfish ( Bodianus axillaris )
Foxfish ( Bodianus frenchii )
Giant trevally ( Caranx ignobilis )
Silvertip Shark ( Carcharhinus albimarginatus )
Grey Reef Shark ( Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos )
Blacktip Reef Shark ( Carcharhinus melanopterus )
Greynurse shark ( Carcharias taurus )
White shark ( Carcharodon carcharias )
Loggerhead turtle ( Caretta caretta )
Keyhole angelfish ( Centropyge tibicen )
Longspine sea urchin ( Centrostephanus rodgersii )
Western longspine sea urchin ( Centrostephanus tenuispinus )
Western butterflyfish ( Chaetodon assarius )
Threadfin butterflyfish ( Chaetodon auriga )
Klein's butterflyfish ( Chaetodon kleinii )
Blackback butterflyfish ( Chaetodon melannotus )
Meyer's butterflyfish ( Chaetodon meyeri )
Lattice Butterflyfish ( Chaetodon rafflesii )
Doublesaddle butterflyfish ( Chaetodon ulietensis )
Ballina angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus ballinae )
Queensland yellowtail angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus meredithi )
Red morwong ( Cheilodactylus fuscus )
Green turtle ( Chelonia mydas )
Redtail Parrotfish ( Chlorurus japanensis )
Baldchin groper ( Choerodon rubescens )
Blackspot tuskfish ( Choerodon schoenleinii )
Onespot puller ( Chromis hypsilepis )
Yellowback puller ( Chromis nitida )
Sea nettle ( Chrysaora kynthia )
Snapper ( Chrysophrys auratus )
Australian pineapplefish ( Cleidopus gloriamaris )
Comb wrasse ( Coris picta )
Mahi mahi ( Coryphaena hippurus )
Barcheek Trevally ( Craterognathus plagiotaenia )
Saltwater crocodile ( Crocodylus porosus )
Tiger cowrie ( Cypraea tigris )
Dusky morwong ( Dactylophora nigricans )
Purple flying gurnard ( Dactyloptena orientalis )
Common dolphin ( Delphinus delphis )
Southern soft coral ( Dendronephthya australis )
Leatherback turtle ( Dermochelys coriacea )
Cockburn Sound anemone ( Dofleinia armata )
Dugong ( Dugong dugon )
Blue threadfin ( Eleutheronema tetradactylum )
Hawaiian giant herring ( Elops hawaiensis )
Old wife ( Enoplosus armatus )
Goldspotted rockcod ( Epinephelus coioides )
Queensland groper ( Epinephelus lanceolatus )
Potato rockcod ( Epinephelus tukula )
Hawksbill turtle ( Eretmochelys imbricata )
Southern right whale ( Eubalaena australis )
Mosaic leatherjacket ( Eubalichthys mosaicus )
Snakeskin wrasse ( Eupetrichthys angustipes )
Tiger shark ( Galeocerdo cuvier )
Rock blackfish ( Girella elevata )
Luderick ( Girella tricuspidata )
Zebrafish ( Girella zebra )
Pearl perch ( Glaucosoma scapulare )
Red velvetfish ( Gnathanacanthus goetzeei )
Shark mackerel ( Grammatorcynus bicarinatus )
Dogtooth tuna ( Gymnosarda unicolor )
Stout moray ( Gymnothorax eurostus )
Green moray ( Gymnothorax prasinus )
Crested hornshark ( Heterodontus galeatus )
Rainbow cale ( Heteroscarus acroptilus )
Spiny seahorse ( Hippocampus histrix )
White's Seahorse ( Hippocampus whitei )
Seasnakes ( Hydrophiidae spp. )
Yellow-bellied seasnake ( Hydrophis platurus )
Halfbanded seaperch ( Hypoplectrodes maccullochi )
Banded rockcod ( Hyporthodus ergastularius )
Black marlin ( Istiompax indica )
Striped marlin ( Kajikia audax )
Silver drummer ( Kyphosus sydneyanus )
Thornback cowfish ( Lactoria fornasini )
Barramundi ( Lates calcarifer )
Sergeant baker ( Latropiscis purpurissatus )
Pacific ridley turtle ( Lepidochelys olivacea )
Redthroat emperor ( Lethrinus miniatus )
Spangled emperor ( Lethrinus nebulosus )
Ornate emperor ( Lethrinus ornatus )
Tripletail ( Lobotes surinamensis )
Mangrove jack ( Lutjanus argentimaculatus )
Crimson Snapper ( Lutjanus erythropterus )
Golden snapper ( Lutjanus johnii )
Fiveline snapper ( Lutjanus quinquelineatus )
Maori Snapper ( Lutjanus rivulatus )
Moses' snapper ( Lutjanus russellii )
Red emperor ( Lutjanus sebae )
Midnight Snapper ( Macolor macularis )
Estuary perch ( Macquaria colonorum )
Blue marlin ( Makaira nigricans )
Humpback whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae )
Eastern king prawn ( Melicertus plebejus )
Flatback turtle ( Natator depressus )
Footballer sweep ( Neatypus obliquus )
Lemon shark ( Negaprion acutidens )
Grey morwong ( Nemadactylus douglasii )
Blue morwong ( Nemadactylus valenciennesi )
Whiskered prowfish ( Neopataecus waterhousii )
Bluespotted maskray ( Neotrygon australiae )
Red tide ( Noctiluca scintillans )
Crimsonband wrasse ( Notolabrus gymnogenis )
Gloomy octopus ( Octopus tetricus )
Herring cale ( Olisthops cyanomelas )
Southern Maori Wrasse ( Ophthalmolepis lineolatus )
Australian snubfin dolphin ( Orcaella heinsohni )
Killer whale ( Orcinus orca )
Harlequin fish ( Othos dentex )
Common sand crab ( Ovalipes australiensis )
Ornate rocklobster ( Panulirus ornatus )
Spotted grubfish ( Parapercis ramsayi )
Short boarfish ( Parazanclistius hutchinsi )
Giant boarfish ( Paristiopterus labiosus )
White-ear ( Parma microlepis )
Diamondscale goatfish ( Parupeneus ciliatus )
Goldsaddle goatfish ( Parupeneus cyclostomus )
Sidespot goatfish ( Parupeneus pleurostigma )
Blacksaddle goatfish ( Parupeneus spilurus )
Paradise threadfin bream ( Pentapodus paradiseus )
Gillblotch leatherjacket ( Pervagor janthinosoma )
Leafy seadragon ( Phycodurus eques )
Common seadragon ( Phyllopteryx taeniolatus )
Razor clam ( Pinna dolabrata )
Roundface batfish ( Platax teira )
Northern sand flathead ( Platycephalus endrachtensis )
Brown sweetlips ( Plectorhinchus gibbosus )
Oblique-banded Sweetlips ( Plectorhinchus lineatus )
Common Coral Trout ( Plectropomus leopardus )
Branching Coral ( Pocillopora aliciae )
Blueface Angelfish ( Pomacanthus xanthometopon )
Tailor ( Pomatomus saltatrix )
Blue swimmer crab ( Portunus armatus )
Spine-cheek Clownfish ( Premnas biaculeatus )
Australian sawtail ( Prionurus microlepidotus )
Tropical sawshark ( Pristiophorus delicatus )
Goldband snapper ( Pristipomoides multidens )
Freshwater sawfish ( Pristis pristis )
Green sawfish ( Pristis zijsron )
Common lionfish ( Pterois volitans )
Cobia ( Rachycentron canadum )
Spanner crab ( Ranina ranina )
Slender sunfish ( Ranzania laevis )
Eastern rock lobster ( Sagmariasus verreauxi )
Bluebarred parrotfish ( Scarus ghobban )
Spanish mackerel ( Scomberomorus commerson )
Grey mackerel ( Scomberomorus semifasciatus )
Banded sweep ( Scorpis georgiana )
Giant mud crab ( Scylla serrata )
Giant cuttlefish ( Sepia apama )
Yellowtail kingfish ( Seriola lalandi )
King George Whiting ( Sillaginodes punctatus )
Yellowfin whiting ( Sillago schomburgkii )
Australian humpbacked dolphin ( Sousa sahulensis )
Australian angel shark ( Squatina australis )
Coral Sea gregory ( Stegastes gascoynei )
Redspot wrasse ( Stethojulis bandanensis )
Brokenline wrasse ( Stethojulis interrupta )
Eye-stripe triggerfish ( Sufflamen chrysopterum )
Tasman beaked whale ( Tasmacetus shepherdi )
Jansen's wrasse ( Thalassoma jansenii )
Moon wrasse ( Thalassoma lunare )
Green moon wrasse ( Thalassoma lutescens )
Yellowfin tuna ( Thunnus albacares )
Rusty-spotted toadfish ( Torquigener pallimaculatus )
Southern roughy ( Trachichthys australis )
Common dart ( Trachinotus botla )
Whitetip reef shark ( Triaenodon obesus )
Southern fiddler ray ( Trygonorrhina dumerilii )
Eastern fiddler ray ( Trygonorrhina fasciata )
Turrum ( Turrum fulvoguttatum )
Burrunan dolphin ( Tursiops australis )
Bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus )
Japanese kelp ( Undaria pinnatifida )
Yellowedge coronation trout ( Variola louti )
Mozambique seabream ( Wattsia mossambica )
Hairtail blenny ( Xiphasia setifer )
Moorish idol ( Zanclus cornutus )
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.
Abudefduf sexfasciatus
This fish has five dark vertical bars on pale body and a black streak at top and bottom of its tail fin.
Length: Up to 22 cm
Abudefduf vaigiensis
The Indo-Pacific sergeant has a yellow back and five dark vertical bars on a pale body, but no streaks on tail fin (like Abudefduf sexfasci…
Chaetodon assarius
Beige body with vertical rows of dark spots. The rear of the body has a brown margin with a white trim. Dark spot on the rear of the dorsal…
Choerodon rubescens
Base colour varies from chocolate brown, to pink/red to pale brown/grey. Distinctive white chin and white pectoral peduncle. Large tusk-lik…
Coryphaena hippurus
Common to global tropical waters. This is a highly migratory species, not common to southern waters in Australia. This species is very brig…
Elops hawaiensis
Body colour is bluish grey on the upper surface of body, middle to lower part of body silver. The body is very elongated and compressed wit…
Epinephelus coioides
Cream/white body with large adjoining brown spots that form irregular shaped almost vertical bars across body. In between these bars are sm…
Epinephelus lanceolatus
JUVENILES: Very secretive and rarely spotted. Reside in caves and crevices in shallow waters. Grey body with dark spots and faint black ban…
Istiompax indica
Body colour is dark black, blue on the upper surface becoming silvery white on the lower surface of the body. Distinguished by lack of cro…
Lethrinus miniatus
A pointed mouth with large lips and no scales on the face. The body is silver to a light brownish range with visible scales that have a dar…
Lethrinus nebulosus
Tan, bronze or yellowish brown in colour with the upper portion bearing light blue markings on the scales. These markings roughly join toge…
Lobotes surinamensis
Juveniles: body colour is mottled with yellow, brown and black. Adults are deep brown to black on the upper surface becoming silvery grey …
Lutjanus argentimaculatus
Mangrove Jacks are a voracious ambush species that wait in the tangles of mangrove roots or fallen timber for prey to pass. They will rapid…
Lutjanus sebae
A fish easily identified in the juvenile and young adult stages by the striking markings on its body. Three dark red bands cross the body v…
Makaira nigricans
Body colour is dark black, blue on the upper surface becoming silvery white on the lower surface of the body. Distinguished by a series of …
Parupeneus spilurus
The distinguishing feature on this goatfish species is the large black mark on the upper surface just before the tail. In front of this bla…
Phycodurus eques
The leafy seadragon is greenish to yellowish-brown with many thin dark-edged pale lines or bands across the body. They have large leaf-like…
Phyllopteryx taeniolatus
These relatives of seahorses have distinctive leaf-like appendages protruding from a few parts of the brown-red body. The body has longitud…
Platax teira
Round body profile with two distinct vertical dark bars, one through the eye and one behind the gill cover. Dark blotch below the pectoral …
Pristipomoides multidens
Body colour is yellowish to rosy on the upper surface of the body becoming silvery towards the belly. This species contains two or three di…
Pterois volitans
An extremely distinctive fish with very long dorsal and pectoral spines. Bright red all over with whitish 'zebra' stripes and long, broad f…
Rachycentron canadum
Slender fishes with a broad, flattened head without dorsal sucking disk and a protruding lower jaw; long-based dorsal fin preceded by short…
Scomberomorus commerson
Body colour greenish blue on the upper surface of the body becoming silvery towards the belly. The body is narrow long and elongated and co…
Torquigener pallimaculatus
Dorsal colour pattern of small to moderately large rounded pale spots delineated by rosette of smaller dark spots on greyish-brown backgrou…
Trachinotus botla
Body colour is bluish on the upper surface of the body becoming silvery towards the belly. Distinguished by deeply forked caudal fin, elon…
Turrum fulvoguttatum
Body colour is blue-green on the upper body becoming silver towards the belly. Body shape is relatively elongated. It contains both golden…
