Marine Fish & Invertebrates

Marine Fish & Invertebrates

Bronze bream - "Pachymetopon blochii"

<h5>Bronze bream - "Pachymetopon blochii"</h5><p>Popular fish with rock anglers. They can be found in shallow and rocky coastlines. They mainly swim in shallow water, but can be found in water as deep as 20 meters. Mature Specimens have been recorded at 40 - 45cm. Bronze Bream have a natural vegetarian diet and so they will not take bait as readily as other species. However, they will take any soft bait such as prawn, rock lobster, white mussel and mussel worm. </p>

Southern mullet harder - "Liza richardsoni"

<h5>Southern mullet harder - "Liza richardsoni"</h5><p> </p>

Jutjaw or Wreckfish - "Parascorpis typus"

<h5>Jutjaw or Wreckfish - "Parascorpis typus"</h5><p> </p>

Slender sun fish - "Ranzania laevis"

<h5>Slender sun fish - "Ranzania laevis"</h5><p> </p>

Giant chiton - "Dinoplax gigas

<h5>Giant chiton - "Dinoplax gigas</h5><p> </p>

Giant chiton - "Dinoplax gigas

<h5>Giant chiton - "Dinoplax gigas</h5><p> </p>

Jellyfish - "Chrysaora hysoscella"

<h5>Jellyfish - "Chrysaora hysoscella"</h5><p> </p>

Egg capsule or mermaid's purse of either a shark, skates or chimaeras.

<h5>Egg capsule or mermaid's purse of either a shark, skates or chimaeras.</h5><p> The egg capsule surrounds the fertilized eggs of some sharks, skates, and chimeras (ghost sharks, rat fish, spookfish, or rabbit fish). They are made of collagen protein strands. </p>

Common shore crab - "Cylograpsus punctatus"

<h5>Common shore crab - "Cylograpsus punctatus"</h5><p> </p>

West Coast Lobster - "Jasus lalandii"

<h5>West Coast Lobster - "Jasus lalandii" </h5><p> </p>

Sand/Pink Prawn - "Callichirus major"

<h5>Sand/Pink Prawn - "Callichirus major"</h5><p> </p>

White mussel - "Donax serra"

<h5>White mussel - "Donax serra"</h5><p>White mussel is harvested as a food source and for bait. White mussel is a genus of small, edible saltwater clams. The species live, sometimes in high concentrations, vertically aligned in the sand on exposed beaches, worldwide. They are filter feeders. </p>

Black mussel - "Choromytilus meridionalis"

<h5>Black mussel - "Choromytilus meridionalis"</h5><p>Black mussel is harvested as a food source and for bait. Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of clams. They live on exposed shores in the intertidal zone, attached by means of their strong byssal threads ("beard") to a firm substrate. They are filter feeders </p>

Brown mussel - "Perna Perna"

<h5>Brown mussel - "Perna Perna"</h5><p> Brown mussel is harvested as a food source and for bait. It is also known to harbor toxins and cause damage to marine structures. The brown mussel naturally colonizes rocky shores but can also attach to submerged man-made objects such as navigation buoys. The brown mussel is a filter feeder and feeds on phytoplankton, zooplankton and suspended organic materials. </p>

Abalone - "Haliotis midae"

<h5>Abalone - "Haliotis midae"</h5><p> </p>

False limpet - "Siphonaria algesirae"

<h5>False limpet - "Siphonaria algesirae"</h5><p> </p>

Rock snail - Nassariidae family

<h5>Rock snail - Nassariidae family</h5><p> </p>

Rock snail - Nassariidae family

<h5>Rock snail - Nassariidae family</h5><p> </p>

False limpet - "Siphonaria algesirae"

<h5>False limpet - "Siphonaria algesirae"</h5><p> </p>

False limpet - "Siphonaria algesirae"

<h5>False limpet - "Siphonaria algesirae"</h5><p> </p>

False plum anemone - "Pseudactinia flagellifera"

<h5>False plum anemone - "Pseudactinia flagellifera"</h5><p> </p>

False plum anemone - "Pseudactinia flagellifera"

<h5>False plum anemone - "Pseudactinia flagellifera"</h5><p> </p>

Dwarf Cushion star - "Patiriella exigua"

<h5>Dwarf Cushion star - "Patiriella exigua"</h5><p> </p>

Dwarf Cushion star - "Patiriella exigua"

<h5>Dwarf Cushion star - "Patiriella exigua"</h5><p> </p>

Bluebottle - "Physalia utriculus"

<h5>Bluebottle - "Physalia utriculus"</h5><p> </p>

Sea lettuce - "Ulva lactuca"

<h5>Sea lettuce - "Ulva lactuca"</h5><p> </p>

Split-fan kelp - "Laminaria pallida"

<h5>Split-fan kelp - "Laminaria pallida"</h5><p> </p>

Dead piece of coral on the beach - Zooxanthellae

<h5>Dead piece of coral on the beach - Zooxanthellae</h5><p>Coral reefs are built over millions of years by tiny coral animals called polyps which is related to and looks like a tiny sea anemone, secretes a cup-shaped limestone skeleton in which it lives. The limestone par is called coral and the animals living in it Zooxanthellae. </p>

A live Coral in shallow water - Zooxanthellae

<h5>A live Coral in shallow water - Zooxanthellae</h5><p>Coral reefs are built over millions of years by tiny coral animals called polyps which is related to and looks like a tiny sea anemone, secretes a cup-shaped limestone skeleton in which it lives. The limestone par is called coral and the animals living in it Zooxanthellae. </p>

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