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February 8, 2018
The Japanese Goby is similar to Krefft’s Goby
I have been helping Catherine McMahon from Port River Shellfish Restoration Project to monitor oysters being kept in baskets in the Port River system. One interesting aspect of the monitoring is the marine life that turns up in the oyster baskets. We have found fish, shells, pygmy squid, nudibranchs, flatworms, shrimps, blue-ringed octopus, etc.. I have been pleased to find... Read morePosted in Bony fishes, Invasive species | By Steve Reynolds
February 8, 2018
Cleaner Clingfish Cleaning Common Seadragons Captured on Camera at Sydney
Further to my article titled The study of fish cleaning behaviour in South Australian waters , at iNaturalist , Mark McGrouther shows two Common Seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus images by Andrew Trevor-Jones. Mark reports that the images show an Eastern Cleaner Clingfish, Cochleoceps orientalis on the side of a Common Seadragon. An Eastern Cleaner Clingfish, Cochleoceps orientalis on the side of... Read morePosted in Bony fishes | By Steve Reynolds
February 4, 2018
The study of fish cleaning behaviour in South Australian waters
Several papers and publications either authored, co-authored or edited by our Patron, Dr Scoresby Shepherd, detailed his early work regarding the study of fish cleaning behaviour in South Australian waters. These include:- “Paradise is Underwater – Memoir of a marine biologist” (2016) by Dr Scoresby A. Shepherd AO (p.261). “Ecology of Australian Temperate Reefs – The Unique South” (2013) edited... Read morePosted in Bony fishes, Research | By Steve Reynolds