Fish
ABOUT FISH
Fish are a group of (mostly) fully aquatic, cold-blooded, gill-breathing vertabrates that are commoinly seperated into two different catagories. Those being 'Bony Fish' which contains Fish that have a complete skeletal structure composed of bone tissue which contains most fish, and 'cartilaginous fish' which contains fish with skeletons composed mostly of cartelidge which includes fish such as Sharks and Rays. Fish such as Hagfish, Coelacanth and Lamprey do not fit into either of these categories.
Below you will find a comprehensive list of fish I have observed in the wild around Whyalla and the surrounding regions.
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Southern Eagle Ray
Myliobatis tenicaudata
Tommy Ruff
Arripis georgianus
Yellowfin Whiting
Sillago schomburgki
King George Whiting
Sillaginodes punctatus
Lake Eyre Hardyhead
Craterocephalus eyresii
Australian Barracuda (Snook)
Sphyraena novaehollandiae
8-Lined Trumpeter
Helotes octolineatus
Western Australian Salmon
Arripus truttaceus
Ornate Boxfish
Aracana ornata
Estuary Cobbler
Cnidoglanis macrocephalus
Silver Fish
Leptatherina presbyteroides
Krefft's Frillgoby
Bathygobius krefftii
Oyster Blenny
Omobranchus anolius
Mahi-Mahi
Coryphaena hippurus
Southern Fiddler Ray
Trygonorhinna dumerilii
Moonlighter
Tilodon sexfasciatus
Southern School Whiting
Sillago bassensis
Southern Blue-Spot Flathead
Platycephalus speculator
Smooth Toadfish
Tetractenos glaber
Southern Garfish
Hyporhamphus australis
Port Jackson Shark
Heterodontus portusjacksoni
Magpie Perch
Cheilodactylus nigripe
Dusky Snake Blenny
Cnidoglanis macrocephalus
Weeping Toadfish
Torquigener pleurogramma
Wavy Grubfish
Parapercis haackei
Southern Longfin Goby
Favonigobius lateralis
Weedy Sea Dragon
Phyllopteryx taeniolatus
