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The clown triggerfish is recognisable by its orange “clown lips” and large white spots on the lower part of its body.

Bluestreak cleaner wrasse are active on coral reefs and provide a cleaning service to larger fish.

Rocksucker: Does this sound like the name of a funky band to you? Maybe a funky fish band?

Although mole snakes can give a nasty bite, they are not venomous.

Named for their habit of ‘shovelling’ through sediment in search of worms and molluscs.

These black needle urchins are armed with spines, which they wave menacingly at intruders.

Like other sea urchins, the rough pencil urchin belongs to the phylum Echinodermata.

Slow-growing herbivorous sea snail belonging to the class Gastropoda. 

Polychaetes are segmented worms that are some of the most common and diverse creatures found along our shores. 

Tube anemones have soft bodies that are enclosed in a protective mucous tube, which the anemones bury in soft sand or mud. 

 Their bodies are enclosed in an “armour” of fused bony scales, and they have two prominent horns protruding above their eyes. Longhorn cowfish are commonly found in harbours and estuaries.

Convict surgeons are found on shallow inshore reefs, in rock pools and around sheltered wharfs and jetties where seaweeds and algae are plentiful.