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Smalltooth Catfish - is a member of the Sea catfishes family and is native to the Purari, Fly-Strickland and Digul river systems in central-southern New Guinea and Roper River system in the Northern Territory, Australia. It inhabits slow-flowing, often turbid rivers and coastal waters. Also occurs in slow-moving freshwater streams, favors turbid coastal shallows and brackish estuaries. It feeds on gastropod and bivalve mollusks, which it swallows hole. It can reach a maximum length of 48 cm (about 19 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/168218135

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Macqurie Perch - is a member of the Temperate Perches family and is native to the upper reaches of Murray-Darling basin, New South Wales, Australia. It inhabits lakes and flowing streams usually in deep holes with rock or gravel substrates. It feeds on shrimps and small aquatic insect larvae. It can reach a length of 46 cm (18.1 inches). It is considered an endangered species. https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/168053046

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Estuary Perch - is a member of the Australian Basses family and is endemic to eastern and southern Australia. It is found in tidal reaches of rivers, lakes and coastal lagoons. It feeds on small fishes, mollusks, worms, shrimps and other crustaceans. It can reach a maximum length of 75cm (29.5 inches) and a maximum published weight of 10 kg (22 pounds). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167890667

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Khaki Grunter - is a member of the Grunters family and is endemic to northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is found in faster flowing sections of rivers, including riffles, over gravel, cobble and rocky bottoms. It feeds on crustaceans, aquatic and terrestrial insects, and algae. It can reach a maximum length of 30 cm (11.8 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167726538

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Highfin Catfish - is a member of the Sea Catfishes family and is native to northern Australia and New Guinea. It lives in rivers and smaller streams, frequently in slow-flowing, turbid conditions and in lakes and lagoons. It feeds on aquatic plants, crustaceans, insect larvae, bottom detritus and fish. It can grow to a maximum length of 45 cm (17.7 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167569507

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Mangrove Jack -

is also known as the Mangrove Red Snapper and is a member of the Snappers family. It is native to East Africa to Samoa and the Line Islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to Australia. It can live in fresh, brackish and salt water environments. It feeds mostly on fishes and crustaceans. It has a maximum length of 150cm (59 inches) and a maximum published weight of 8.7 kg (19.2 pounds).

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Giant Gudgeon - is a member of the Gudgeon Gobies family and is native to northern Australia from the Adcock River, western Australia to the vicinity of Cooktown. It inhabits rivers, creeks and billabongs, usually in quiet or slow flowing water among vegetation, around log debris or undercut banks. A nocturnal carnivore, feeds on fishes, crustaceans, and aquatic insects. It can reach a maximum length of 55 cm (21.7 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167274279

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Coal Grunter - is a member of the Grunters family and is endemic to Australia. It inhabits clear, rapid streams (sometimes very small creeks) flowing over sand, mud and rocky pools. It feeds on crustaceans (especially prawns) and small fishes. It can reach a maximum length of 31 cm (12.2 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167069375

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Freshwater Moray - is a member of the Moray eels family and is native to Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Borneo, New Guinea, Philippines, Fiji and Australia. It is found in shallow marine coastal waters, estuaries, river mouths, and for short distances upriver. Its diet consists almost entirely of fish, and occasionally shrimp, bivalves, and worms, and it prefers to eat live food. It spends much of its life in freshwater but migrates to saltwater to spawn. It can reach a maximum length of 150 cm (59 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/166907216

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Yellowtail Trumpeter - is a member of the Grunters or tigerperches family and is native to Australia and New Guinea. It livesin coastal marine waters, but also found in estuaries and freshwater sections of rivers. It feeds mainly on bristle worms. It can reach a maximum length of 30 cm (about 12 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/166714649

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Yelllow Eye Mullet - is a member of the Mullet family and is native throughout New Zealand and the Chatham Islands; also from eastern, western Australia, southern Australia and Tasmania. It is found over sandy and muddy bottoms of coastal waters, bays, estuaries, and may ascend rivers into freshwater. It is omnivores, feeding mostly on decomposed organic matter, algae and small invertebrates. It can reach a maximum length of 50 cm (19.7 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/166522907

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Yellowfin Bream - is a member of the Porgies family and is endemic to eastern Australia, from Townsville in Queensland to the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria. It inhabits estuaries, coastal rivers, creeks, lakes and bays, usually in marine or brackish water, but in dry seasons they penetrate the lowermost reaches of freshwater. It feeds on mollusks, crustaceans, worms, fish and ascidians (Sea Squirts). It can reach a maximum length of 66.0 cm (26 inches) and a maximum published weight of 4.5 kg (10 lbs). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/166339769

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Silver Cobbler - is a member of the Sea Catfishes family and is native to Northern Australia. It inhabits lakes, billabongs, rivers and to a lesser extent brackish estuaries and the tidal portion of rivers. Found in clear or turbid freshwater reservoirs and waterholes. It feeds mainly on fishes, prawns and crayfish. It can reach a maximum length of 140 cm (55.1 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/166159037

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Rock Flagtail - is also known as the Jungle Perch and is a member of the Aholeholes family. It is native to East Africa to Samoa, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to Queensland, Australia and New Caledonia. It primarily a freshwater inhabitant but may move into adjacent marine habitats. It is omnivorous, feeding on small fishes, insects, crustaceans and fruits (figs) that drop into the water. It can reach a maximum length of 45 cm (17.7 in). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/165989200

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Trout Cod - is a member of the Temperate Perch family and is native to the Murray-Darling basin in Australia. It can be found in riffle and boulder areas in relatively small upland streams to larger deeper rivers and lakes. It feeds on insects, crayfish, shrimp, and small fishes. It can reach a maximum length of 85 cm (33.5 inches) and can reach a maximum published weight of 16 kg ( 35.3 pounds). It is considered a vulnerable species. https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/165824440

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Welch's Grunter - is a member of the Grunters family and is endemic to Australia. It inhabits turbid water of gently flowing rivers and waterholes. It is capable of withstanding high temperatures and brackish water conditions. It feeds on small fishes, crustaceans and worms. It can reach a maximum length of 40 cm (15.7 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/165648095