Sydney Sea Life

A guide to the most common sea life found in Sydney's harbour and coastline. Data source: http://www.gordonsbayscubadivingclub.com/Gordons_Bay_Fish_List.pdf

Senator Wrasse 1
Pictilabrus laticlavius
Threebar Porcupinefish 2
Dicotylichthys punctulatus
Crimsonband Wrasse 3
Notolabrus gymnogenis
Rock Cale 4
Aplodactylus lophodon
Bluestriped Goatfish 5
Upeneichthys lineatus
Sergeant Baker 1
Latropiscis purpurissatus
Yellowfin Bream 6
Acanthopagrus australis
Eastern Blue Groper 3
Achoerodus viridis
Australian Mado 5
Atypichthys strigatus
Old Wife 7
Enoplosus armatus
Port Jackson Shark 6
Heterodontus portusjacksoni
Common Stingaree 4
Trygonoptera testacea
Portuguese Man o' War 8
Physalia physalis
Cook's Scorpionfish 5
Scorpaena cardinalis
Asian Blue Swimming Crab 9
Portunus pelagicus
Mourning Cuttlefish 3
Sepia plangon
Wandering Sea Anemone
Phlyctenactis tuberculosa
Brittle Stars 10
Ophiuroidea
White-striped Anemone 11
Anthothoe albocincta
Lesser Blue-ringed Octopus 1
Hapalochlaena maculosa
Elephant Snail 12
Scutus antipodes
Common Sydney Octopus 13
Octopus tetricus
Red-tipped urchin 4
Heliocidaris tuberculata
Largetooth Beardie 3
Lotella rhacina
Black Bream 14
Acanthopagrus butcheri
Blind Shark 5
Brachaelurus waddi
Smallscale Bullseye 5
Pempheris compressa
Dusky Flathead 3
Platycephalus fuscus
Australian Bull Ray 15
Myliobatis australis
Eastern Fortescue 3
Centropogon australis
Eastern Hulafish 16
Trachinops taeniatus
Eastern School Whiting 17
Sillago flindersi
Eastern Wirrah 18
Acanthistius ocellatus
Estuary Catfish 1
Cnidoglanis macrocephalus
Australian Green Moray 3
Gymnothorax prasinus
Odax Cyanomelas 6
Olisthops cyanomelas
John Dory 19
Zeus faber
Eastern Pomfred 20
Schuettea scalaripinnis
Longfin Pike 3
Dinolestes lewini
Luderick 2
Girella tricuspidata
Girella 2
Southern Maori Wrasse 1
Ophthalmolepis lineolata
Pink Clingfish 1
Aspasmogaster costata
Red Morwong 5
Cheilodactylus fuscus
Crinodus lophodon 21
Aplodactylus westralis
Silver Sweep 6
Scorpis lineolata
Slender Sea Moth
Pegasus volitans
Sculptured Seamoth 22
Pegasus lancifer
Smooth Boxfish 5
Anoplocapros lenticularis
Eastern Smooth Boxfish 6
Anoplocapros inermis
Snakeskin Wrasse 20
Eupetrichthys angustipes
Spotted Pipefish 1
Stigmatopora argus
Stripey 5
Microcanthus strigatus
White Ear 5
Parma microlepis
Orectolobus 23
Trachurus
Yellowtail Kingfish 6
Seriola lalandi
Biscuit Star 24
Pentagonaster duebeni
Black Sea Hare 25
Aplysia vaccaria
Aplysia sydneyensis 12
Ophionereis schayeri 12
Australian Giant Cuttlefish 20
Sepia apama
Firebrick Starfish 3
Asterodiscides truncatus
Polycitor giganteus 1
Sea Tulip 4
Pyura spinifera
Reaper Cuttlefish 4
Sepia mestus
Botrylloides leachi 6
Neodoris chrysoderma 26
Doris chrysoderma
Blue Blubber Jellyfish 27
Catostylus mosaicus
Octopus 28
Carybdea 29
Red Triton
Cymatium rubeculum
Knobbed Triton 30
Charonia lampas
Zoanthus robustus 1
Centrostephanus rodgersii 31
Phyllacanthus parvispinus 4
Cerianthus species 32
Cerianthus
Patiriella calcar 12
Meridiastra calcar
Ceratosoma amoena 4
Ceratosoma amoenum
Filigree Worm 33
Filograna implexa
Aphelodoris varia 3
Tambja verconis 34

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