Marine Life Society of South Australia Inc.
Understanding, enjoying and caring for our oceans
Both Charmain Rogers and Eben Viljoen have photographed the rarely seen, very colourful, juvenile White-nose pigfish, Perryena leucometopon recently. These were seen at both Edithburgh and Port Hughes. (Photo courtesy…
The Maugean skate, Zearaja maugeana is being threatened by pollution caused by salmon farming in their Macquarie Harbour habitat in Tasmania. The Federal Government allocated $28.6m in the Mid-year Economic…
I wrote about the old Glenelg jetty in three of our old newsletters: June 2002 http://seadragon.podzone.org/nletters/june2002.htm July 2002 http://seadragon.podzone.org/nletters/july2002.htm September 2007 http://seadragon.podzone.org/nletters/september2007.htm Those three articles were all linked together. A…
One of our members recently came across an injured Rock Ling, Genypterus tigerinus, and filed the following report: – “It was not doing well, having a significant injury on the…
We reported at ‘Pretty Fishes’ File that we had started a file of David Muirhead’s regular column titled “Pretty Fishes of Yankalilla Bay” for the monthly issues of Yankalilla Regional…
As posted on iNaturalist , “This Smooth Toadfish, Tetractenos glaber, has an odd growth or hypertrophic tissue response to something like a traumatic or parasitic injury on its head: –…
Discussion over the ID of the species involved in the recent flounder sighting have continued since the posting of A Flounder Chasing & Eating a Toxic Toadfish. The observer has…
One of our members sent in some footage of a flounder catching and eating a toxic toad fish, adding” Recently I spotted a large flounder and followed it about over…
A building in Adelaide now known as the Radford Auditorium was originally an ‘Ordnance Store’ (or old military store) built in 1867. It was refurbished in 1972 and became a…
More photos (slides) have come to hand since writing Photos of the Recovery of the Lost Anchors from Matthew Flinders’ Ship HMS Investigator – Marine Life Society of South Australia…