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Red-rumped Wisp, *Agriocnemis rubricauda*, female. © Chris Burwell.
Red-rumped Wisp
Summary
The Red-rumped Wisp is a tiny damselfly that inhabits a variety of standing water habitats, including small, well-vegetated ponds, dams and swamps. It is very similar to the Pgymy Wisp but males have more of the tip of the abdomen reddish. However, only female Red-rumped Wisps are known from south-east Queensland.
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Cleft-fronted Bait Crab, *Guinusia dentipes*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Cleft-fronted Bait Crab
Summary
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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Bullock's Nudibranch, *Hypselodoris bullockii*.© Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Bullock's Nudibranch
Summary
Bullock’s Nudibranch is a shallow water sea slug often seen by divers on coral reefs. It feeds on sponges and occurs in tropical Australia as far south as Moreton Bay, Queensland.
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Kuiter's Nudibranch, *Chromodoris kuiteri*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Kuiter's Nudibranch
Summary
Kuiter's Nudibranch is commonly 40-60 mm when extended although some specimens may grow to 75 mm. The species has a strong warning colour pattern. It is found throughout northern Australia and the south-western Pacific.
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Carpet Snake, Morelia spilota. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Carpet Snake or Carpet Python
Summary
Carpet snakes are extremely variable in colour and pattern. Most specimens are olive green, with pale, dark-edged blotches, stripes or cross-bands. This species is widespread and found throughout northern, eastern and southern Australia.
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Southern Whitetip, *Episynlestes albicauda*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Needles and whitetips
Summary
The Synlestidae are large, dark-coloured damselflies with pale markings and long abdomens. They breed in streams in rivers.
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Giant Panda Snail, Hedleyella falconeri. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Giant Panda Snail
Summary
The Giant Panda Snail is Australia's largest land snail, the shell of which may reach 90 mm in height. This species is often encountered in the rainforests around Brisbane, particularly at night after rain when they are out feeding on fungi. Giant Panda Snails occur as far south as Barrington Tops in NSW.
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Coastal Petaltail, *Petalura litorea*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Petaltails
Summary
Petaltails are very large, dull-coloured dragonflies with eyes separated on the top of the head. Males have distinctive, leaf-like cerci on the tip of the abdomen.
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Red-triangle Slug, Triboniophorus graeffei. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Red-triangle Slug
Summary
The Red-triangle Slug is common in the greater Brisbane region of south-eastern Queensland. This species which lives in coastal forests from around Wollongong NSW north to Mossman in northern Qld has many colour forms.
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Pygmy Wisp, *Agriocnemis pygmaea*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Pygmy Wisp
Summary
The Pygmy Wisp is a tiny damselfly that inhabits ponds, swamps and fringes of dams and lakes with plentiful aquatic vegetation. Mature males are dark brown or black with greenish markings and a reddish tip to the abdomen. Young females are mostly red and become black and green as they age.
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Sapphire Rockmaster, *Diphlebia coerulescens*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Rockmasters
Summary
Rockmasters are very large, robust damselflies that rest with wings spread. Males are black with blue markings, and females dull-coloured. They breed in flowing waters.
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Rose Barnacles, Tesseropora rosea. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Rose Barnacle
Summary
Rose Barnacles occur on rocks at the seaward edge of rocky shores, and are able to tolerate strong wave activity. They are found in eastern Australia and southern Western Australia.
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Male *Mopsus mormon*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Northern Green Jumping Spider
Summary
The Northern Green Jumping Spider (Mopsus mormon) is one of Australia’s largest jumping spiders, and a common resident of backyards in tropical climates, including around Brisbane. The spiders are green throughout their lives, but adult males and females exhibit strong sexual dimorphism, with males characterised by a pronounced fringe of white ‘whiskers’.
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Hairy Mussel, Trichomya hirsuta. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Hairy Mussel
Summary
The Hairy Mussel occurs abundantly along the eastern and southern coasts of Australia as far south as Tasmania, particularly in estuarine localities. Shells of living animals are covered in short bristles. They occur in eastern and southern Australia.
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Swamp Crayfish, *Tenuibranchiurus glypticus*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Swamp Crayfish
Summary
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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Oakview Leaf-tailed Gecko, Phyllurus kabikabi. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Oakview Leaf-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Oakview Leaf-tailed Gecko if found in Oakview National Park, via Kilkivan, South east Queensland.
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Female *Trichonephila plumipes* in orb web. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Golden Orb-Weaving Spiders
Summary
The three species of Golden Orb-Weaving Spiders found in Queensland (in the genera Trichonephila and Nephila) are familiar denizens of urban environments throughout the state. The most commonly encountered species, Trichonephila plumipes, is abundant in backyards in eastern Queensland, including around Brisbane.
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Large Wiretail, *Labidiosticta vallisi*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Large Wiretail
Summary
The Large Wiretail is a large, slender damselfly that inhabits small rocky streams in wet and dry forest. Adults are bronze-black with pale-cream to yellowish markings. As the males age, they develop a thick, whitish powdery coating on the thorax and the base and tip of the abdomen.
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Redclaw, *Cherax quadricarinatus*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Redclaw
Summary
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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Japanese Hooded Nudibranch, *Melibe japonica*. Courtesy of Rod Foster.
Japanese Hooded Nudibranch
Summary
The Japanese Hooded Nudibranch is an enormous species of nudibranch (reaching a length of over 50 cm). This striking species that has a spoon-like oral hood has been commonly observed in south-east Queensland by divers and caught in nets of commercial trawlers.
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