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Trachichthyidae - Roughies
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/trachichthyidae-roughies/Explore images and fact sheets of the trachichthyid fishes. The family also included the sawbellies and slimeheads.
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Haemulidae - Sweetlips
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/haemulidae-sweetlips/Explore images and fact sheets of the haemulid fishes on the site.
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Cyprinidae - Cyprinids
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/cyprinidae-cyprinids/Explore images and fact sheets of the cyprinid fishes on the site. These include the carps, goldfish and relatives.
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Atherinidae - Hardyheads
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/atherinidae-hardyheads/Explore images and fact sheets of the atherinid fishes on the site. These include the Hardyheads, Silversides and Whitebait.
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Belonidae - Longtoms
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/belonidae-longtoms/Explore images and fact sheets of the belonid fishes on the site. These fishes are also called needlefishes.
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Emmelichthyidae - bonnetmouths
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/emmelichthyidae-bonnetmouths/Explore images and fact sheets of the emmelichthid fishes on the site. The family contains the bonnetmouths, red baitfishes, redbait and ruby fishes. Five species are known from Australian waters.
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Are you lost?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/are-you-lost/Fish distributions are changing. What's the new 'normal'?
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Fish up a drainpipe
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fish-up-a-drainpipe/This amazing video of fish in a drain blew me out of the water.
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Rock-a-bye baby – All at sea on the RV Braveheart
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/rock-a-bye-babyall-at-sea-on-the-rv-braveheart/During September four staff set out on the RV Braveheart from New Zealand for the Austral and Gambier Islands of southern French Polynesia.
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Sawfish saw in action
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/sawfish-saw-in-action/This movie clip shows a sawfish feeding. Sawfishes can slash from side to side with the rostrum to stun, impale or even cut prey fishes in half. The rostrum can also pin fishes to the substrate where they are ingested.
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