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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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Speckled Sand Crab
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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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Crustaceans
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Blue Dragon Nudibranch
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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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Molluscs
Gastropods Nudibranchs |
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Thick-tailed Gecko
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The Thick-tailed Gecko is uncommon in Brisbane's outskirts. It occurs in eastern and southern Australia.
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Reptiles
Geckos |
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Banana Prawn
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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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Crustaceans
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Purple-edged Nudibranch
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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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Molluscs
Gastropods Nudibranchs |
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Textile Cone
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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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Molluscs
Gastropods Marine snails |
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Garden Slater
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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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Crustaceans
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Smooth-handed Ghost Crab
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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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Crustaceans
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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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Carpet Snake or Carpet Python
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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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Reptiles
Snakes |
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