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Tunicate Coralfish, or Western Talma (Chelmonops curiosus), juvenile. Found from Shark Bay, Western Australia, to Robe, South Australia. Photo taken at Edithburgh, York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
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Tunicate Coralfish, or Western Talma (Chelmonops curiosus). Found from Shark Bay, Western Australia, to Robe, South Australia. Photo taken at Edithburgh, York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
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Tunicate Coralfish, or Western Talma (Chelmonops curiosus), juvenile. Found from Shark Bay, Western Australia, to Robe, South Australia. Photo taken at Edithburgh, York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
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Marble Dragonet (Bovichtus angustifrons). Also known as Thornfish and Marblefish. Found from southern NSW to eastern Great Australian Bight, including Tasmania. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Vic, Australia.
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Eastern Star Gazer (Kathetostoma laeve), buried in sand. Restricted to the temperate waters of south-eastern Australia. Photo was taken in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
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Rainbow Cale (Odax acroptilus), male. Found in coastal sea grass and kelp beds in temperate waters of southern Australia. Photo taken in Western Port Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
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Rainbow Cale (Odax acroptilus), male. Found in coastal sea grass and kelp beds in temperate waters of southern Australia. Photo taken in Western Port Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
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Rainbow Cale (Odax acroptilus), male. Found in coastal sea grass and kelp beds in temperate waters of southern Australia. Photo taken in Western Port Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
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Rainbow Cale (Odax acroptilus), male. Found in coastal sea grass and kelp beds in temperate waters of southern Australia. Photo taken in Western Port Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
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Southern Blue Devil (Paraplesiops meleagris). Found in coastal and off-shore rocky reefs in caves and crevices throughout southern WA, SA and Vic. Photo taken at Mornington Peninsula, Vic, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Magpie Perch (Cheilodactylus nigripes). Found from Albany, Western Australia, to Kiama, New South Wales. Photo taken at Flinders, Western Port, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blue-throated Wrasse (Notolabrus tetricus), initial phase. Found in south-eastern Australia, from NSW to SA, including Tas. Photo taken at Flinders, Western Port, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Girdled Scalyfin (Parma unifasciata), juvenile. Also known as Girdled Parma. Endemic to coastal reefs from southern Queensland to southern New South Wales, Australia. Photo taken at Bermagui, New South Wales.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Girdled Scalyfin (Parma unifasciata), juvenile. Also known as Girdled Parma. Endemic to coastal reefs from southern Queensland to southern New South Wales, Australia. Photo taken at Bermagui, New South Wales.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Yellow-Crested Weedfish (Cristiceps aurantiacus). Found in rocky reefs, kelp and seagrass beds in temperate waters of Australia. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
© Bill Boyle / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red Velvetfish (Gnathanacanthus goetzeei) - juvenile. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
© Bill Boyle / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red Velvetfish (Gnathanacanthus goetzeei), adult. Found in temperate waters of southern Australia, including Tasmania. Rarely encountered by divers due to its cryptic camouflage. Photo taken in Tasmania, Australia.
© Bill Boyle / OceanwideImages.com |
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Southern Blue Devil (Paraplesiops meleagris). Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
© Bill Boyle / OceanwideImages.com |
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Short Boarfish (Parazanclistius hutchinsi). Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia. Rare species.
© Bill Boyle / OceanwideImages.com |
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Yellow-tail Kingfish (Seriola lalandi). Also known as Yellowtail Amberjack and Great Amberjack. Found in sub-tropical and temperate seas in the Pacific and Indian oceans.
© Chris & Monique Fallows / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red Velvetfish (Gnathanacanthus goetzeei) - juvenile. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
© Rudie Kuiter / OceanwideImages.com |
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Warty Prowfish (Aetapcus maculatus). Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
© Rudie Kuiter / OceanwideImages.com |
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Barracouta (Thyrsites atun). Also known as 'Couta, Snoek and Sierra. A commercially sought fish found in Southern Australian waters.
© Rudie Kuiter / OceanwideImages.com |
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Warty Prowfish (Aetapcus maculatus), pair resting beneath Port Hughes Jetty or Pier, South Australia. This fish species, a member of the Scorpionfish family, and sheds its skin in a manner very similiar to reptiles.
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Brushtail Pipefish (Leptoichthys fistularius), swimming close to Sea Grass near Port Hughes Jetty or Pier, South Australia.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Megamouth Shark (Megachasma pelagios) - dead specimen. A very large filter-feeding shark that lives in deep water. Western Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Common Sawshark (Pristiophorus cirratus). Also known as Longnose Sawshark. Southern Australia
© Rudie Kuiter / OceanwideImages.com |
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Green Sawfish (Pristis zijsron). Also known as Dindagubba, Narrowsnout sawfish and Sawfish. Found in salt, brackish and freshwater habitats in the Indo-Pacific from India to Australia.
© Rudie Kuiter / OceanwideImages.com |
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Largetooth Sawfish (Pristis pristis). Also known as Sawtooth Shark and Carpenter Shark. Found in estuaries and shallow bays throughout the Atlantic, Indo Pacific and East Pacific. Photo taken in Philippines. Critically Endangered.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Broad-headed Snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides). Restricted to sand-stone escarpments around Sydney, Australia. Potentially dangerous. Australia's only Endangered snake. Rare.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Broad-headed Snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides). Restricted to sand-stone escarpments around Sydney, Australia. Potentially dangerous. Australia's only Endangered snake. Rare.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Broad-headed Snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides). Restricted to sand-stone escarpments around Sydney, Australia. Potentially dangerous. Australia's only Endangered snake. Rare.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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White-stemmed Wattle Moth (Chelepteryx chalepteryx). Photo taken in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
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Sunset at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunrise at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunset at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunset at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunrise at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunset at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunset at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunset at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunset at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunrise at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunset at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunset at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunrise at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunrise at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sunrise at Mount Wellington summit, cloaked in winter snow. Near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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