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Tusked Frog The Tusked Frog is medium sized. It is back is brown with dark blotches. It is found in south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales.
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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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Furry-clawed Crab Furry-clawed Crab males have blue claws with a large round patch of fur at the base of their 'fingers' (females have very small claws without furry patches). Abundant, in mangroves and on muddy creek banks. Indigenous, Sydney, NSW, north to Darwin, NT.
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Freshwater Tiger Crab The Freshwater Tiger Crab is a relatively large, riverine, freshwater crab, most easily recognised by the distinctive black stripes on the carapace of adults. It is so far only known from the headwaters of One Mile Creek, a tributary of the Alice River, Cape York.
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Striped Marshfrog 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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Swamp Crayfish 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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Semaphore Crab The Semaphore Crab is similar in shape to fiddler crabs, but differs by having equal sized, purple claws. It is found in eastern Australia, from Tasmania to central Qld.
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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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Spanner Crab The Spanner Crab is found in the intertidal zone to more than 100 m; prefers bare sandy areas. It is widespread, northern Australia from Houtman Abrolhos, WA, to southern NSW.
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Graceful Treefrog The Graceful Treefrog is bright green with yellow slides, belly and feet. It is found coastally from Cape York, Queensland, to the Gosford area of New South Wales.
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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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Common Green Treefrog 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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Golden Flatwing The Golden 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 Flame Flatwing but the distributions of the two species do not overlap.
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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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Inland Ringtail The Inland Ringtail is a medium-sized damselfly that inhabits streams, lakes and pools, including muddy temporary pools. Mature adults are dark metallic green or dull bronze with blue markings. The last two segments of the abdomen are blue for males.
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Asian House Gecko Originally a tree-living species, Asian House Geckos now thrive in human dwellings and on buildings, where they catch insects attracted to artificial light sources.
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