February 2018 – Marine Life Society of South Australia Inc.

The Japanese Goby is similar to Krefft’s Goby

Published on : February 8, 2018February 9, 2018 Published by : Steve Reynolds

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, […]

Cleaner Clingfish Cleaning Common Seadragons Captured on Camera at Sydney

Published on : February 8, 2018 Published by : Steve Reynolds

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. […]

The study of fish cleaning behaviour in South Australian waters

Published on : February 4, 2018April 20, 2018 Published by : Steve Reynolds

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 […]