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13 de septiembre de 2018

Another new record for Sydney Harbour!

Henrick's observation of a juvenile Magpie Perch, Cheilodactylus nigripes, provides us with both a northern range extension (previously known to Kiama) and also a new record for Sydney Harbour!
This observation brings the Sydney Harbour species count to 596 and the number of morwong species to seven. View the Sydney Harbour species list on the Australian Museum website.
Magpie Perch occur in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to this observation the Australian distribution of the species extended through temperate southern waters from to Albany, Western Australia to Kiama, New South Wales plus northern Tasmania.
Well done Henrick!
Publicado el septiembre 13, 2018 04:24 MAÑANA por markmcg markmcg | 6 comentarios | Deja un comentario

18 de septiembre de 2018

Woohoo! 2000 species and counting!

Some of you may have noticed that Australasian Fishes recently passed a significant milestone.
The project now contains observations of more than 2000 species. Thank you everyone!
The lucky 2000th species is the Bartailed Flathead, Platycephalus australis. This observation was uploaded by Gordon Black (rick-ludd)
When the project went online, we never dreamed that in just under 2 years we'd have amassed observations of 2000 species. Again, thanks all!
Publicado el septiembre 18, 2018 06:47 MAÑANA por markmcg markmcg | 7 comentarios | Deja un comentario

27 de septiembre de 2018

Impact of Australasian Fishes - Sept 2018

Australasian Fishes went online in October 2016. Since then, over 36,000 observations (>2000 species) uploaded by members have resulted in over 200 discoveries. For more details contact Mark McGrouther.

A selection of the recent discoveries:

Observation summary:
Subject Number of observations
Range extension / first record 100
Diet / feeding 19
Parasite / fungus 14
New species / newly described     7
Colour pattern 19
Damage / injuries 10
Courtship / reproduction 20
Behavioural information 10
Publicado el septiembre 27, 2018 12:32 MAÑANA por markmcg markmcg | 7 comentarios | Deja un comentario