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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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Rose Barnacle Rose Barnacles occur on rocks at the seaward edge of rocky shores, and are able to tolerate strong wave activity. They are found in eastern Australia and southern Western Australia.
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Species not assigned to a family Several genera of Australian dragonflies are currently not assigned to a particular family. These include 3 genera in south-east Queensland that do not form a cohesive recognisable group.
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Tigertails Tigertails are medium-sized black dragonflies with yellow markings, and with eyes touching at the top of the head. Males have hindwings with an angled base, and auricles (paired ear-shaped structures) on A2 of the abdomen.
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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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Lamington Spiny Crayfish The Lamington Spiny Crayfish is restricted to streams bordered by rainforest, and sometimes wet eucalypt forest, at more than 300 m altitude. Inhabits mountains in a crescent from Mount Tamborine to Lamington Plateau, west along Macpherson Range, and north via Cunningham's Gap into the Mistake Mountains, Queensland.
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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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