Need your gobies identified? You need these books - first two volumes out now. Still writing vols 3-4!

We’ve published another new genus and four new species of seagrass-specialist clingfishes (Gobiesocidae) from temperate southern Australia. aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Sad to be reporting the dire state many FW fishes are in. In a recent paper, led by Lintermans we used IUCN criteria & found that 37% of Australia's 241 FW fish species are Threatened plus 7% Near-threatened. Threats: invasives, habitat change & climate change. SW Aust is worst = 55% Threatened!

well, here it is lads after combing through some 1,400 records, it looks like the slender-billed curlew is indeed extinct and the last known photo taken in 1995 was probably at the point it slipped beneath the waves 🦉🧪 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

First post in the new world order. A photo of the stunning Herring Cale Heteroscarus acroptilus - endemic to southern Australia. Its an odacine (=wrasse, fam. Labridae). One of very few specialist kelp-eating fishes.