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Bruce's Hinge-beak Prawn Bruce's Hinge-beak Prawn has distinctive patterning, and grows to 30 mm in length. It occurs on rocky reefs, in crevices and caves, and among rubble. Eastern Australia; also Philippines and Hong Kong.
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Red and White-spotted Reef Crab 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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Mount Elliot Leaf-tailed Gecko The Mount Elliot Leaf-tailed Gecko is only found on Mount Elliot, Bowling Green Bay NP (30 km SE of Townsville, north-eastern Queensland).
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Gold-ring Cowrie The Gold-ring Cowrie grows only to about 30 mm long, and is abundant on eel grass flats in sandy-mud or sand, from the intertidal to the shallow subtidal zones, and in pools on ocean reef platforms. It is common across northern Australia and throughout the Indian and West Pacific Oceans.
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Pustulose Phyllidiid The Pustulose Phyllidiid is a nudibranch that lives on coral substrates in the lower intertidal zone and down to about 30 m depth, where it may be seen crawling during the day. It is one of the most common nudibranchs in the tropical Indo-west Pacific.
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Lotus Flower Nudibranch The Lotus Flower Nudibranch lives on shallow water reefs (intertidal down to 30 m) where it feeds on the polyps of hydroids (sea ferns). It occurs in temperate, subtropical and tropical Australia.
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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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Goose Barnacle The Goose Barnacle is found in the open sea, where it attaches to floating logs, planks and other flotsam. It is common in tropical Australia.
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Shiny Bait Crab The Shiny Bait Crab is found in crevices and pools on exposed rocky shores in eastern Qld. It is common at Point Lookout, on North Stradbroke Island.
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Imperial Barnacle The Imperial Barnacle is found towards low water level on oceanic rocky shores, but not in areas subject to severe wave action. It occurs in eastern Australia.
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Royal Barnacle The Royal Barnacle is common on rocks on exposed rocky headlands, lower tidal zone down to about 9 m depth. It occurs from southern Australia north to Queensland.
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Mauve-eyed Hermit The Mauve-eyed Hermit is instantly recognisable by its bright red body, legs with pale purple-banded joints and mauve eyestalks. It is found on a variety of substrates including rock, reef, and sandy mud seagrass flats, from tropical to warm-temperate Australia, south to NSW.
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Peacock Mantis Shrimp The Peacock Mantis Shrimp is an active hunter that seeks and eats other crustaceans, small fish and molluscs. It is found across northern Australia and widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region.
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Two-toned Fiddler Crab The Two-toned Fiddler Crab is common. It is found on unshaded sandy mud along lower tide levels of open bays and creeks, and isolated sand or mud banks. Occurs in northern Australia from Darwin, NT to Trial Bay, NSW.
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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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Purple-mouthed Kookaburra Whelk The Purple-mouthed Kookaburra Whelk is so named because of its striking profile resemblance to a perched kookaburra and the purple tinge around the aperture. In reality it is actually a species of triton - Family Cymatiidae. The species is distributed across the Indo-West Pacific.
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Bullock's Nudibranch Bullock’s Nudibranch is a shallow water sea slug often seen by divers on coral reefs. It feeds on sponges and occurs in tropical Australia as far south as Moreton Bay, Queensland.
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Potter Wasp Predatory potter wasps build nests from a mixture of mud and saliva, and fills them with paralysed caterpillars. It is widespread across mainland Australia
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Gold-spotted Nudibranch The Gold-spotted Nudibranch has a mosaic of large and small golden patches, each outlined in orange, and the body itself is smooth to the touch. It occurs in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Funeral Pyre Nudibranch 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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