This site provides a wealth of information for secondary and tertiary students. You'll be able to do a virtual dissection of a fish, find out why some sharks have big livers, which fish has scales the size of a dinner plate, and then go on a virtual tour of the fish collection.

All pages were compiled by Mark McGrouther unless individually authored.

Fish Dissection (Junior High School level)
This site takes you through an examination of the exterior characters and the major internal organs of an Eastern Blue-spotted Flathead. Each step is illustrated with an image and discussed in simple text.

Fish Dissection (Senior High School and Tertiary level)
This site takes you through a step by step dissection of the internal organs and gills of a Blue Mackerel. Each step is illustrated with an image. Features of interest, such as the heart, liver and gill rakers are linked to pages with further information.

Fish in Focus
Fishes have some incredible adaptations to the environments in which they live. This site contains examples of adaptations in ten species of Australian fishes. Find out about the sixth sense of Grey Nurse Sharks, the "fishing lure" of the Striped Anglerfish and how White's Seahorse feeds. The site was developed specifically for use by senior high school biology students.

Fish Key (Junior High School level)
Keys are an important tool used for the identification of organisms. Use the online key to identify a species of bullseye that occurs in the Sydney region.

Fish Memory Game
Australian fishes come in an amazing variety of shapes and sizes. This game shows only 6 of over 4000 species. Test your memory skills and learn further information after you have matched the fish correctly.

Scales
Fish scales come in a huge range of shapes and sizes. Some fish lack scales whereas others have scales over 10cm long. Different types of fish scales have evolved in different groups of fishes. This site looks at the different types of scales, what the scales are made of, and answers some commonly asked questions about scales.

Fish Collection Tour
The Fish Collection Tour takes you through 15 images of the fish collection. You'll get a behind the scenes look at parts of the collection including shark specimens in tanks, tiny fish larvae in cabinets and people working in the collection.

Links

Australian Museum Collections: Ichthyology

Fish Olympics

Wild Kids: Sharks

OLogy: Marine Biology

Living Harbour

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Teachers and kids

New South Wales Fisheries: fish'n'kids