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Scissortail sergeant ( Abudefduf sexfasciatus )
Indo-Pacific sergeant ( Abudefduf vaigiensis )
Eastern wirrah ( Acanthistius ocellatus )
Western wirrah ( Acanthistius serratus )
Western blue groper ( Achoerodus gouldii )
Eastern blue groper ( Achoerodus viridis )
Warty prowfish ( Aetapcus maculatus )
Pacific bonefish ( Albula argentea )
Whitebarred boxfish ( Anoplocapros lenticularis )
Rock cale ( Aplodactylus lophodon )
Green jobfish ( Aprion virescens )
Firebrick seastar ( Asterodiscides truncatus )
Mado ( Atypichthys strigatus )
Sergeant baker ( Latropiscis purpurissatus )
Frigate mackerel ( Auxis thazard )
Blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus )
Coral pigfish ( Bodianus axillaris )
Foxfish ( Bodianus frenchii )
Turrum ( Turrum fulvoguttatum )
Greynurse shark ( Carcharias taurus )
White shark ( Carcharodon carcharias )
Loggerhead turtle ( Caretta caretta )
Longspine sea urchin ( Centrostephanus rodgersii )
Western longspine sea urchin ( Centrostephanus tenuispinus )
Western butterflyfish ( Chaetodon assarius )
Threadfin butterflyfish ( Chaetodon auriga )
Klein's butterflyfish ( Chaetodon kleinii )
Doublesaddle butterflyfish ( Chaetodon ulietensis )
Red morwong ( Cheilodactylus fuscus )
Green turtle ( Chelonia mydas )
Baldchin groper ( Choerodon rubescens )
Onespot puller ( Chromis hypsilepis )
Yellowback puller ( Chromis nitida )
Sea nettle ( Chrysaora kynthia )
Australian pineapplefish ( Cleidopus gloriamaris )
Comb wrasse ( Coris picta )
Mahi mahi ( Coryphaena hippurus )
Dusky morwong ( Dactylophora nigricans )
Purple flying gurnard ( Dactyloptena orientalis )
Bluespotted maskray ( Neotrygon trigonoides )
Common dolphin ( Delphinus delphis )
Leatherback turtle ( Dermochelys coriacea )
Cockburn Sound anemone ( Dofleinia armata )
Dugong ( Dugong dugon )
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 )
Red velvetfish ( Gnathanacanthus goetzeei )
Shark mackerel ( Grammatorcynus bicarinatus )
Stout moray ( Gymnothorax eurostus )
Green moray ( Gymnothorax prasinus )
Rainbow cale ( Heteroscarus acroptilus )
Seasnakes ( Hydrophiidae spp. )
Halfbanded seaperch ( Hypoplectrodes maccullochi )
Silver drummer ( Kyphosus sydneyanus )
Barramundi ( Lates calcarifer )
Pacific ridley turtle ( Lepidochelys olivacea )
Redthroat emperor ( Lethrinus miniatus )
Spangled emperor ( Lethrinus nebulosus )
Tripletail ( Lobotes surinamensis )
Mangrove jack ( Lutjanus argentimaculatus )
Golden snapper ( Lutjanus johnii )
Moses' snapper ( Lutjanus russellii )
Red emperor ( Lutjanus sebae )
Estuary perch ( Macquaria colonorum )
Black marlin ( Istiompax indica )
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 )
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 )
Snapper ( Chrysophrys auratus )
Ornate rocklobster ( Panulirus ornatus )
Spotted grubfish ( Parapercis ramsayi )
Short boarfish ( Parazanclistius hutchinsi )
Giant boarfish ( Paristiopterus labiosus )
White-ear ( Parma microlepis )
Blacksaddle goatfish ( Parupeneus spilurus )
Yellow-bellied seasnake ( Hydrophis platurus )
Gillblotch leatherjacket ( Pervagor janthinosoma )
Leafy seadragon ( Phycodurus eques )
Razor clam ( Pinna dolabrata )
Roundface batfish ( Platax teira )
Tailor ( Pomatomus saltatrix )
Blue swimmer crab ( Portunus armatus )
Tropical sawshark ( Pristiophorus delicatus )
Goldband snapper ( Pristipomoides multidens )
Freshwater sawfish ( Pristis pristis )
Green sawfish ( Pristis zijsron )
Common lionfish ( Pterois volitans )
Cobia ( Rachycentron canadum )
Slender sunfish ( Ranzania laevis )
Eastern rock lobster ( Sagmariasus verreauxi )
Bluebarred parrotfish ( Scarus ghobban )
Spanish mackerel ( Scomberomorus commerson )
Banded sweep ( Scorpis georgiana )
Giant mud crab ( Scylla serrata )
Yellowtail kingfish ( Seriola lalandi )
King George Whiting ( Sillaginodes punctatus )
Yellowfin whiting ( Sillago schomburgkii )
Australian humpbacked dolphin ( Sousa sahulensis )
Australian angel shark ( Squatina australis )
Tasman beaked whale ( Tasmacetus shepherdi )
Striped marlin ( Kajikia audax )
Jansen's wrasse ( Thalassoma jansenii )
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 )
Burrunan dolphin ( Tursiops australis )
Bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus )
Japanese kelp ( Undaria pinnatifida )
Giant trevally ( Caranx ignobilis )
Crown-of-thorns seastar ( Acanthaster planci )
Blackspot tuskfish ( Choerodon schoenleinii )
Pearl perch ( Glaucosoma scapulare )
Fiveline snapper ( Lutjanus quinquelineatus )
Goldsaddle goatfish ( Parupeneus cyclostomus )
Sidespot goatfish ( Parupeneus pleurostigma )
Australian sawtail ( Prionurus microlepidotus )
Coral Sea gregory ( Stegastes gascoynei )
Redspot wrasse ( Stethojulis bandanensis )
Brokenline wrasse ( Stethojulis interrupta )
Moon wrasse ( Thalassoma lunare )
Yellowedge coronation trout ( Variola louti )
Moorish idol ( Zanclus cornutus )
Green moon wrasse ( Thalassoma lutescens )
Ballina angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus ballinae )
Queensland yellowtail angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus meredithi )
Saltwater crocodile ( Crocodylus porosus )
Tiger cowrie ( Cypraea tigris )
Blue threadfin ( Eleutheronema tetradactylum )
Banded rockcod ( Hyporthodus ergastularius )
Dogtooth tuna ( Gymnosarda unicolor )
Crested hornshark ( Heterodontus galeatus )
Spiny seahorse ( Hippocampus histrix )
Thornback cowfish ( Lactoria fornasini )
Ornate emperor ( Lethrinus ornatus )
Diamondscale goatfish ( Parupeneus ciliatus )
Paradise threadfin bream ( Pentapodus paradiseus )
Northern sand flathead ( Platycephalus endrachtensis )
Brown sweetlips ( Plectorhinchus gibbosus )
Common seadragon ( Phyllopteryx taeniolatus )
Meyer's butterflyfish ( Chaetodon meyeri )
Blackback butterflyfish ( Chaetodon melannotus )
Keyhole angelfish ( Centropyge tibicen )
Western yellowfin bream ( Acanthopagrus morrisoni )
Spanner crab ( Ranina ranina )
Grey mackerel ( Scomberomorus semifasciatus )
Giant cuttlefish ( Sepia apama )
Eye-stripe triggerfish ( Sufflamen chrysopterum )
Mozambique seabream ( Wattsia mossambica )
Hairtail blenny ( Xiphasia setifer )
White's Seahorse ( Hippocampus whitei )
Southern soft coral ( Dendronephthya australis )
Blueface Angelfish ( Pomacanthus xanthometopon )
Lattice Butterflyfish ( Chaetodon rafflesii )
Spine-cheek Clownfish ( Premnas biaculeatus )
Barcheek Trevally ( Craterognathus plagiotaenia )
Midnight Snapper ( Macolor macularis )
Redtail Parrotfish ( Chlorurus japanensis )
Eastern Clown Anemonefish ( Amphiprion percula )
Crimson Snapper ( Lutjanus erythropterus )
Grey Reef Shark ( Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos )
Blacktip Reef Shark ( Carcharhinus melanopterus )
Silvertip Shark ( Carcharhinus albimarginatus )
Oblique-banded Sweetlips ( Plectorhinchus lineatus )
Common Coral Trout ( Plectropomus leopardus )
Rusty Jobfish ( Aphareus rutilans )
Maori Snapper ( Lutjanus rivulatus )
Branching Coral ( Pocillopora aliciae )
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
