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Penguin Wing Oyster The Penguin Wing Oyster is the largest member of its genus, growing to over 200 mm and characterised by a black shell exterior and a very long extension of the hinge. The Penguin Wing Oyster lives in shallow water to depths of up to 20 m. It is found in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Sydney Rock Oyster The Sydney Rock Oyster is the most ecologically and commercially important species of the oyster family from Australian waters. It is found along the east coast of Australia, and New Zealand.
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White Hammer Oyster 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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Twinspot Hunter The Twinspot Hunter is a medium-sized, black and yellow dragonfly that inhabits streams and rivers in the lowlands and foothills of south-east Queensland.
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Black Tigertail The Black Tigertail is a medium-sized, black dragonfly with yellow markings. It inhabits faster flowing creek and streams in forests, especially rainforest.
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L-spot Basker The L-spot Basker is a small dragonfly that inhabits lakes, ponds, riverine lagoons and swamps. The adults have dark markings at the bases of the hindwings and mature males are red with a cream-coloured face.
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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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Plumbago Blue The Plumbago Blue butterfly is rarely found far from Plumbago plants. The flattened green caterpillars feed on the buds and flowers. It occurs in Eastern Australia from north of Cooktown, Qld, to Wollongong, NSW.
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Flame Flatwing The Flame Flatwing is a large, orange and black damselfly that inhabits creeks, streams, and boggy pools in rainforest and other wet forests. It is very similar to the Golden Flatwing but the distributions of the two species do not overlap.
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Redtail The Redtail is a medium-sized damselfly that inhabits lakes, ponds, dams and pools in sluggish rivers. Adults have a uniform green to orange thorax and the abdomen is reddish in males and dull brown to greyish in females.
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Forest Needle The Forest Needle is a very large, metallic green damselfly with yellow markings. It inhabits creeks and streams in wetter forest, particularly rainforest.
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Wandering Glider The Wandering Glider is a moderately large, yellowish to orange-yellow dragonfly with a line of dark markings along the top of the abdomen. It breeds in a wide range of standing waters, including temporary ponds. Adults can be found far from water.
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Dune Glider The Dune Glider is a moderately large dragonfly that is largely confined to dune lakes on the coast and sand islands. Adult males are red and have a dark-red patch at the base of each hindwing.
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Dragonfly and damselfly anatomy The bodies of dragonflies and damselflies are divided into a head, thorax and abdomen. The head has a pair of large compount eyes. The thorax consists of three segments, each with a pair of legs. The second and third segments of the thorax each have a pair of wings with a dense network of veins. The abdomen is elongate and made up of 10 segments.
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Pale Hunter The Pale Hunter is a medium-sized, black and yellow dragonfly that inhabits steams and rivers, but occasionally lakes, throughout south-east Queensland.
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Common Glider The Common Glider is a moderately large dragonfly that inhabits a wide range of standing waters, including temporary ponds. Adults have a brownish thorax with darker stripes on the sides and a tan to reddish abdomen. The base of each hindwing has a dark red to black patch.
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Red Arrow The Red Arrow is a medium-sized dragonfly that inhabits lakes, dams, ponds, sluggish rivers and swamps. Young adults are orange-brown with white markings on the head and thorax. Mature males become mostly solid-red.
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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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Sapphire Rockmaster The Sapphire Rockmaster is a very large, robust damselfly that inhabits streams and fast-flowing rivers, usually in wetter forests. Mature males are patterned with black and rich 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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