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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?

New Fish Images
Fri, 13 Oct, 2006
Crested Horn Shark laying egg case

FAQ update
Wed, 11 Oct, 2006
Do Fishes Feel Pain?

New Fish Images
Wed, 11 Oct, 2006
Bullrout, Notesthes robusta

New Fish Fact sheet
Mon, 9 Oct, 2006
Oblique-banded Snapper, Pristipomoides zonatus

New Fish Fact sheet
Fri, 29 Sep, 2006
Sharptail Sunfish, Masturus lanceolatus

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