Pataecidae

The Australian Museum respects and acknowledges the Gadigal people as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the land and waterways on which the Museum stands.

Image credit: gadigal yilimung (shield) made by Uncle Charles Chicka Madden

Pataecidae - Prowfishes

Red Indian Fish, Pataecus fronto Richardson, 1844

Aploactinidae: Velvetfishes

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Warty Prowfish, Aetapcus maculatus (Günther, 1861)

Whiskered Prowfish, Neopataecus waterhousii, (Castelnau, 1872)

Fishes of Sydney Harbour