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Baitfish, Garfish, Scad, Pike
Seasonal Variations in Fish
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Nudibranchs and other sea slugs
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Common Nudibranchs
Nudibranchs with Cerata
Nudibranchs with lines or streaks
Nudibranchs with tufts and nodules
Nudibranchs with spots
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Port Stephens: Butterflyfish, Angelfish, Bannerfish, Coralfish, Batfish
Lord Howe butterflyfish - Amphichaetodon howensis
Bicolor Angelfish-Centropyge bicolor
Keyhole Angelfish-Centropyge tibicen
Keyhole Angelfish-Centropyge tibicen
Threadfin butterflyfish - Juvenile - Chaetodon auriga
Threadfin butterflyfish - Adult - Chaetodon auriga
Citron Butterflyfish adult-Chaetodon citrinellus
Citron Butterflyfish juvenile-Chaetodon citrinellus
Dusky Butterflyfish - Adult - Chaetodon flavirostris
Dusky Butterflyfish - Juvenile - Chaetodon flavirostris
Gunthers butterflyfish - Adult - Chaetodon guentheri
Gunthers butterflyfish - Juvenile - Chaetodon guentheri
Brown butterflyfish - Adult - Chaetodon kleinii
Brown butterflyfish - Juvenile - Chaetodon kleinii
Racoon butterflyfish - Chaetodon lunula
Black-backed Butterflyfish-Chaetodon melannotus
Mertens Butterflyfish-Chaetodon mertensii
Dot-Dash butterflyfish - Chaetodon pelewensis
Dot-Dash Butterflyfish-Chaetodon pelewensis
Blue-dash Butterflyfish -Chaetodon plebeius
Ovalspot butterflyfish-Chaetodon speculum
Vagabond Butterflyfish-Chaetodon vagabundus
Vagabond butterflyfish - Juvenile - Chaetodon vagabundus
Eastern talma - Juvenile - Chelmonops truncatus
Yellow-finned angelfish - Chaetodontoplus meredithi (adult)
Yellow-finned angelfish - Chaetodontoplus meredithi (intermediate phase)
Yellow-finned angelfish - Chaetodontoplus meredithi (juvenile)
Eastern talma - Adult - Chelmonops truncatus
Highfin coralfish - Coradion altivelis
Old wife - Enoplosus armatus
Pinstripe Angelfish -Genicanthus watanabei
Longfin Bannerfish - Heniochus acuminatus
Schooling bannerfish - Heniochus diphreutes
Silver batfish - Monodactylus argenteus
Ocellate Buttferflyfish - Parachaetodon ocellatus (Photo Meryl Larkin)
Round batfish - Platax orbicularis
Long-fin batfish - Adult- Platax teira
Long-fin batfish - Juvenile - Platax teira
Semicircle Angelfish-Pomacanthus semicirculatus
Scat/butterfish - Selenotoca multifasciata
Moorish idol - Zanclus cornutus