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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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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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Blue Dragon Nudibranch The Blue Dragon Nudibranch resembles a frilled tiny lizard. It reaches only 10 mm in length and has 3 pairs of fan-like finger-like appendages called cerata. The species is found throughout the Pacific Ocean.
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Thick-tailed Gecko The Thick-tailed Gecko is uncommon in Brisbane's outskirts. It occurs in eastern and southern Australia.
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Banana Prawn The Banana Prawn grows to 240 mm in length. It is widespread, found in northern Australia from Shark Bay, WA, to northern NSW; also from the Red Sea into Asia.
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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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Purple-edged Nudibranch The Purple-edged Nudibranch is an attractive, moderately large (50-120 mm) and often-encountered shallow water sea slug. It occurs in subtropical and tropical Australia
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Textile Cone The Textile Cone shell has an irregular shingle-like pattern. It feeds on other molluscs which it immobilises by injecting a powerful venom with a harpoon-like tooth. The species is found in tropical waters of the Indo-west Pacific.
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Garden Slater The Garden Slater belongs to a group of Crustacea called the Isopoda. Isopods sometimes resemble amphipods, but their bodies tend to be low and flattened rather than high and narrow. They are common in suburban gardens.
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Smooth-handed Ghost Crab The Smooth-handed Ghost Crab can be found on top of frontal dunes to about 200 m inland. It is often seen scurrying about beach campsites. It occurs in northern Australia from Kimberley, WA, to northern NSW.
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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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Bluetails, riverdamsels, wisps and billabongflies The Coenagrionidae range in size from very small to large. In most species, the males are more colourful than the females, their head, thorax and tip of the abdomen often bright blue, red, yellow or orange. These damselflies rest with their wings clasped together. Many species breed in standing waters, but some (e.g. riverdamsels) breed in flowing waters.
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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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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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Brownwater Skimmer The Brownwater Skimmer is a medium-sized dragonfly confined to lakes in coastal sand dunes. Young adults are yellow and black. Almost the entire body of mature males develops a pale bluish powdery coating.
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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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