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Central Queensland Leaf-tailed Gecko (Rough-throated Leaf-tailed Gecko)
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The Central Queensland Leaf-tailed Gecko (Rough-throated Leaf-tailed Gecko) is mainly known from dry areas in mid-eastern and south-central Queensland.
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Reptiles
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Cabbage White
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The Cabbage White butterfly has white wings with creamy yellow undersides. It is found throughout Australia. Caterpillars are pale green with a thin yellowish line down the back. It is a pest of cruciferous crops such as cabbages, cauliflower and broccoli.
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Insects
Butterflies |
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Military Turban
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The Military Turban is one of the larger species of its family (Turbinidae), growing to approximately 100 mm in shell length and is frequently seen subtidally by divers, sometimes sporting encrusting worm tubes or algal growths. It is found in Eastern Australia.
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Molluscs
Gastropods Marine snails |
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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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Crustaceans
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Lamarcks Porcelain Crab
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Lamarcks Porcelain Crab is found under rocks and rubble on reefs; intertidal and shallow subtidal zones in eastern Australia.
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Crustaceans
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Striped Marshfrog
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The Striped Marshfrog is light brown to grey-brown and marked with bold, dark longitudinal stripes. It is widespread in coastal eastern Australia and also occurs in Tasmania.
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Frogs
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White Hammer Oyster
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The White Hammer Oyster is one of the most unusual types of marine bivalve molluscs and easily recognised by its greatly elongate hinge extensions (recalling a hammer shape) and somewhat corrugated valves. It is found in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Molluscs
Bivalves |
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Hairy Swimmer Crab
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The Hairy Swimmer Crab is a very stout, solidly built swimming crab that can grow to 145 mm in carapace width. It occurs in northern Australia from Exmouth Gulf, WA, to Sydney.
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Crustaceans
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Coral Swimmer Crab
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The Coral Swimmer Crab reaches up to 160 mm in carapace width. It occurs in Australia, except for the southern coast; Indo-West Pacific from East Africa to Japan.
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Crustaceans
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Pink-clawed Hermit
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The Pink-clawed Hermit has short thick eyestalks with distinctive red and white banding. It is found on reefs and seagrass beds in Qld and NSW.
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Crustaceans
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Funeral Pyre Nudibranch
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The Funeral Pyre Nudibranch is easily identified by its distinctive white body colour decorated with large black circles composed of numerous raised papillae. It feeds on sponges and occurs in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Molluscs
Gastropods Nudibranchs |
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Orange-clawed Fiddler Crab
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The Orange-clawed Fiddler Crab is common on muddy upper shoulders of creeks and riverbanks in eastern Australia from Cape York to Moreton Bay.
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Crustaceans
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Dainty Swallowtail
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The Dainty Swallowtail butterfly has black wings with white spots and patches; row of red spots bordering hindwings. It is widespread in eastern Australia from Qld south to Adelaide, SA.
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Insects
Butterflies |
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Brown Tiger Prawn
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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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Crustaceans
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Orchard Swallowtail
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The Orchard Swallowtail butterfly is widespread in northern and eastern Australia.
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Insects
Butterflies |
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Common Crow
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The Common Crow butterfly is found in open forest and woodland. It is widespread across northern and eastern Australia. In Brisbane gardens, the caterpillars feed mostly on oleanders and figs.
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Insects
Butterflies |
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Common Green Treefrog
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The Common Green Treefrog is a large species. It is bright to dull green with a rounded head. It is widespread through northern and eastern Australia.
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Frogs
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Strawberry Cockle
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The Strawberry Cockle is creamy white with strawberry-red scales and has a solid, strongly ribbed shell. Like many other bivalves, it feeds by using a siphon to draw in water and pass it to the gills. Strawberry Cockles are common in the intertidal and shallow subtidal zones throughout the Indo-West Pacific.
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Molluscs
Bivalves |
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Yabby or Ghost Nipper
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Yabbies burrow in large numbers on sheltered intertidal and shallow, subtidal muddy sandflats. They are often collected by yabby pump, and commonly used as bait for fishing. Occur in eastern Australia.
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Crustaceans
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Lamington Spiny Crayfish
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The Lamington Spiny Crayfish is restricted to streams bordered by rainforest, and sometimes wet eucalypt forest, at more than 300 m altitude. Inhabits mountains in a crescent from Mount Tamborine to Lamington Plateau, west along Macpherson Range, and north via Cunningham's Gap into the Mistake Mountains, Queensland.
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Crustaceans
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