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Lotus Flower Nudibranch
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The Lotus Flower Nudibranch lives on shallow water reefs (intertidal down to 30 m) where it feeds on the polyps of hydroids (sea ferns). It occurs in temperate, subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Nudibranchs
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Nudibranchs (naked-gilled sea-slugs) include some of the most colourful and flamboyant of sea creatures. There are around 3000 valid species in this Molluscan group. Many have bright and elaborate colour patterns as spectacular as those seen in some butterflies.
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Cleaner Shrimps & allies
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This interesting group of small benthic decapod crustaceans belongs to the Infraorder Stenopodidea. It includes only six species in two families in Australian waters, with the Banded Coral Shrimp always the most common and conspicuous.
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Peacock Mantis Shrimp
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The Peacock Mantis Shrimp is an active hunter that seeks and eats other crustaceans, small fish and molluscs. It is found across northern Australia and widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region.
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Bold-spotted Anemone Shrimp
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The Bold-spotted Anemone Shrimp has, as its name suggests, bold patterning. It grows up to 20 mm in length. It occurs on reefs and may be found on Haddon’s Anemone in channels and pools at Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island. Northern Australia; Indo-Pacific region.
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Pacific Clown Anemone Shrimp
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The Pacific Clown Anemone Shrimp is common on coral and rocky reefs in the subtidal zone. Occurs singly or in pairs, on Haddon’s Anemone, and also on other anemones and sea cucumbers. Northern Australia.
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Estuarine Stonefish
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Stonefish are the most venomous of all fishes. They are found throughout shallow coastal waters of the northern half of Australia. Stonefish are extremely well camouflaged and often almost indistinguishable from their natural surrounds. The venomous dorsal fin spines can cause extremely painful wounds and other serious medical issues.
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Bullrout
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Bullrout are responsible for most fish stings that occur in upper tidal reaches and freshwaters of New South Wales and Queensland. The venomous fin spines can cause painful wounds. They are an ambush predator of small fish and crustaceans, hiding amongst snags and aquatic plants.
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Amethyst Olive
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The Amethyst Olive is one of the commonest and most widespread of the olive snail family (Olividae). This species is found buried in subtidal sandy areas especially associated with coral reefs and lagoons in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Blue-lined Octopus
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The Blue-lined Octopus grows to about 15 cm in armspan, but is often much smaller. It is easily recognised by the iridescent blue lines on the body and linked blue rings on the arms and webs, however this is a warning colouration and only obvious when the animal is aggravated. This species is only found from southern Queensland to southern NSW.
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Richmond River Keeled Snail
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The Richmond River Keeled Snail has an elevated spire and a strikingly-keeled shape. It occurs in the forests of Tamborine Mountain and Lamington National Park near Brisbane.
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Cleft-fronted Bait Crab
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The Cleft-fronted Bait Crab has short hairs on its body and legs, and can reach 70 mm in carapace width. It occurs in eastern Qld; also subtropical and tropical western and eastern Pacific (north to Japan and south-east to Easter Island).
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Honeycomb Coral Crab
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The Honeycomb Coral Crab features honeycomb patterning over its shell and claws. It lives commensally with a variety of branching corals, and is found in northern Australia. Also found in the eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific and north to Japan.
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Horn-eyed Ghost Crab
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The Horn-eyed Ghost Crab is common on the open beach below frontal dunes in the intertidal zone. Most active at night. It is found in northern Australia from Shark Bay, WA, to northern NSW.
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Orange-fingered Yabby
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The Orange-fingered Yabby is typically semi-aquatic in gullies, temporary pools and shallow creeks with limited flow. Also common in farm dams.
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Redclaw
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Redclaw crayfish make short burrows around the waterline, or underneath submerged rocks and fallen trees. Introduced to south-east Queensland through aquaculture, farm dams, and aquarium interests, and now feral in Lake Samsonvale, Wivenhoe Dam, and freshwater sections of Bremer and Brisbane Rivers.
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Shield Shrimp
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Shield Shrimp are the most strange-looking and distinctive of all desert crustaceans, and occur over much of inland Australia. Populations of these peculiar creatures explode following rain, and they can be found teeming in temporary pools and water-filled clay pans.
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Swamp Crayfish
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The Swamp Crayfish is one of the world's smallest crayfish, being fully grown at 25 mm. Originally recorded from Bulimba Creek, Mt Gravatt, but rarely found in the Brisbane city area since 1951.
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Purple Swift-footed Shore Crab
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The Purple Swift-footed Shore Crab is found on rocky coasts exposed to strong surf. It shelters in crevices and under rocks from mid to high tide mark. Occurs from southern to subtropical Australia.
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Red and White-spotted Reef Crab
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The Red and White-spotted Reef Crab hides in cavities in dead coral or mussel clumps, intertidal zone down to about 30 m depth. Known only from northern Australia, south to Moreton Bay.
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