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Common Box Crab The Common Box Crab is pale olive to olive-grey or olive-yellow, with flecking but not strong markings. It reaches about 50 mm in carapace width. It occurs in tropical and subtropical Australia; Indo-Pacific from Red Sea to Clipperton Is., east Pacific.
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Amethyst Olive 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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Mud Crab The Mud Crab is a well-known, large, olive-green swimming crab, with sharply serrated edges around front half of carapace. Found north from about Sydney, NSW.
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Brown Tiger Prawn The Brown Tiger Prawn is a large, banded prawn growing to 235 mm in length. It occurs on mud or sandy mud, and is found in northern Australia from Shark Bay, WA, to central NSW.
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Shawl Crab Shawl Crabs inhabit various habitats, under rocks on exposed and sheltered shores, in crevices in dead coral on muddy sandflats from northern Australia south to NSW.
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Speckled Sand Crab The Speckled Sand Crab occurs on sandy substrates, from low tide mark to about 10 m depth. It is sometimes caught in bait nets. It is found in northern Australia.
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Sand Crab or Blue Swimmer Crab The Sand Crab or Blue Swimmer Crab is a commercially important trawled species. It is common in shallow, sandy-muddy inshore waters and seagrass beds, and occurs Australia-wide.
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Carpet Snake or Carpet Python 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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Freshwater Snake (Keelback Snake) The Freshwater Snake is olive brown with irregular dark cross-bands. This species grows to 75 cm. It is found in coastal areas of northern Australia from northern New South Wales to the Kimberley, Western Australia.
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Shield Shrimp 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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Pygmy Wisp 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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Whitewater Rockmaster The Whitewater Rockmaster is a very large, robust damselfly that inhabits streams and rivers in wet forests, especially rainforest. Mature males are mostly blue, while females are much more sombrely coloured.
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Red-rumped Wisp 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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Arrowhead Rockmaster The Arrowhead Rockmaster is a very large, robust damselfly that inhabits streams and fast-flowing rivers, usually in wetter forests. Mature males are patterned with blue and black, while females are much more sombrely coloured.
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Bullrout 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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