About fishes

What is a fish? Information on scales, bones and fish or fishes.

Fish Department

Research, staff, visitors, volunteers, field work and more.

Collections

The Collection, online data, types, tour and maps.

Larval Fishes

Scientific information about larval fishes including taxonomic descriptions and a reference database.

Fish links

Selected fishy links worldwide.

Find a fish

Pages on hundreds of species of fishes.

Identify a fish

A pictorial key to the identification of fishes to family, with links back to fact sheets.

Student stuff

Fish adaptations, fish keys and two virtual dissections.

FAQs

A selection of FAQs about the collection and fishes in general.

Fish movies

Beautiful underwater footage of Australian fishes including sharks and rays.

What's New?

Huge Fish Site upgrade
Tue, 6 May, 2008
What's in it for me?

New Fish Fact Sheet
Thu, 1 May, 2008
Yellowfin Goby, Acanthogobius flavimanus

New Fish Fact Sheet
Wed, 30 Apr, 2008
Spangled Emperor, Lethrinus nebulosus

New Fish Fact Sheet
Tue, 29 Apr, 2008
Six-spine Leatherjacket skull

New Fish Image
Mon, 28 Apr, 2008
Eastern Smooth Boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis - dry fish on the beach

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