Marine investigation:
The seasonal influx of tropical fish at Seal Rocks, NSW, Australia
Tropical/subtropical fish species recorded so far:
Majority of images courtesy of David Harasti, NSW DPI Fisheries
Bull shark
Photo courtesy of Australian Museum
Australian cow-nosed ray
Spotted eagle ray
Blotched fantail ray Photo courtesy of Australian Museum
Blue-spotted mask ray Photo courtesy of Divemob.info
White-spotted Guitarfish
Photo courtesy of J.E. Randall, www.fish-base.org
White-mouthed moray eel
Striped catfish
Photo courtesy of Taso Viglas
Milkfish
Photo courtesy of CSIRO
Smooth
flutemouth
Trumpetfish
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Common Lionfish Photo courtesy of Australian Museum
Orange fairy basslet
Sharksucker
Photo courtesy of Eric Schlogl
Thicklip trevally
Banded trevally
Big-eyed trevally
Blue-finned trevally
Photo courtesy of Nick Hobgood
Pennantfish
Photo courtesy of Antonia Cooper
Rainbow runner
Photo courtesy of Pinterest
False fusilier
Photo courtesy of Reef Life Survey
Yellowfin goatfish
Yellow-saddle goatfish Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Brassy drummer
Threadfin butterflyfish
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Gunthers butterflyfish
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Brown butterflyfish
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Citron butterflyfish
Dusky butterflyfish
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
IndoPacific sergeant
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Scissor-tail sergeant
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Black-spot sergeant
Juveniles in adjacent rock pools
Bengal sergeant
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Coral Sea Gregory
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Neon damsel
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Banded parma
Photo courtesy of Fishes of Australia
Bigscale parma
Photo courtesy of ReefLifeSurvey
Whitetail damsel (juv)
Photo courtesy of Reflex.net
Half and half chromis
Photo courtesy of Fishes of Australia
Three spot humbug
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Sunset wrasse
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Two-tone wrasse
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Moon wrasse
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Jansen's wrasse
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Broken lined wrasse
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Red spot wrasse
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Diamond wrasse
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Gunther's wrasse
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Six-lined wrasse
Cleanerfish
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Bluestriped fangblenny
Photo courtesy of ReefLifeSurvey.com
Leaping Bonito
Photo courtesy of iNaturalist
Moorish idols
Orange-banded surgeonfish (juv)
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Convict surgeonfish
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Bluespine unicornfish
Australian sawtail surgeonfish (juv)
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Yellow-spotted sawtail surgeonfish
Photo courtesy of fishing.net.nz
Pearly-spotted / Black rabbitfish
Yellow-backed triggerfish
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Wedge-tailed piccasofish
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Stars & stripes pufferfish
Photo courtesy of daveharasti.com
Black-spotted pufferfish
Reticulated pufferfish
Photo courtesy of Ross Robertson
Long-horned cowfish
Photo courtesy of Nick Hobgood
Yellow boxfish
Photo courtesy of E Schlögl
Honeycomb leatherjacket
Photo courtesy of Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist
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