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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

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Sleepy Cod - is a member of the Gudgeon gobies family and is native to Northern Australia and central-southern New Guinea. It inhabits rivers, creeks and billabongs, usually in quiet or slow-flowing water among vegetation, around log debris or beneath undercut banks. It feeds on on insects, fishes and crustaceans. It can reach a maximum length of 45 cm (17.7 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/165468017

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Speartooth Shark - is a member of the Requiem sharks family. It inhabits coastal marine waters and tidal reaches of large tropical rivers in northern Australia and New Guinea. It feeds primarily on fish. It is a protected species in Australia and is also considered a vulnerable species. It can reach a maximum length of 100 cm (39. 4 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/165287413

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Blue Salmon Catfish - is a member of the Sea catfishes family and is native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea. It inhabits freshwater rivers and lagoons, as well as brackish estuaries and coastal marine waters. It feeds on arthropods, insects, aquatic plants, mollusks, prawns, crayfish, fishes and bottom detritus. It can reach a maximum length of 60 cm (23.6 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/165109315

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Southern Shortfin Eel - is a member of the Freshwater Eel family. It is widespread in the tropical Indian Ocean and western Pacific. Known in Australia only from streams in the Kimberley regions of northern western Australia. It is a migratory species which breeds in the ocean and lives in fresh water areas as an adult. They return to the ocean to breed. It is found in rivers and creeks, commonly over rock bottoms and in deeper pools. It feeds on small fishes, crustaceans and mollusks. It can reach a maximum length of 123 cm (48.4 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/164921175

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Bony Bream - is a a member of the Gizzard shads family and is native to rivers of Australia and southwestern Papua New Guinea. It commonly inhabit streams coursing through relatively dry eucalyptus-scrub or desert areas, preferring sluggish or quiet waters. It feeds on algae, insects and small crustaceans. It can reach a maximum length of 48 cm (18.9 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/164729861

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Nurseryfish - is a member of the Nurseryfishes family and is native to central southern New Guinea and northern Australia.It inhabits mangrove-nipa swamps, brackish estuaries and slow-flowing turbid rivers. It feeds on small fishes, shrimps and crayfish. The male carries the eggs around like a bunch of grapes attached to a hook on the head, called forehead brooding. It can reach a maximum length of 63 cm (24.8 inches). https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/164527912