Species

Barramundi

Lates calcarifer

Diet: insect, prawn, fish

Bead Weed

Salicornia quinqueflora

Yellow Mangrove

Ceriops

Yellow green oval leaves often oriented straight up

Grey Mangrove

Avicennia marina

Light green leaves with silver underside

Red-Flowered Black Mangrove

Lumnitzera littorea

Indentation at end of leaf, red flower

Mud Crab

Scylla serrata

9 spines, vary from olive-brown to greenish-blue and blue-black

Diet: mollusks, crustaceans, and polychaetes

Portunus pelagicus

Blue Swimmer Crab

9 spines, swimming paddles

Diet: sessile and slow-moving invertebrates like bivalves, crustaceans, gastropods, and polychates

Uca coarctata

Orange-Clawed Fiddler Crab

Diet: sieve microbes, bacteria, and algae out of sand

Mictyris longicarpus

Soldier Crab

Diet: organic matter from sand

Parasesarma messa

Maroon Mangrove Crab

Diet: Mangrove leaf litter

Sillago ciliata

Sand Whiting

Diet: poluchaetes and crustaceans

Scomberoides commersonianus

Talang Queenfish

Diet: fish, cepholapods, other pelagic fish

Arrhamphus sclerolepis

Northern Snubnose Garfish

Diet: ???

Polydactylus macrochir

Threadfin Fish

Diet: Worms, prawns, crabs

Caranx ignobilis

Giant Trevally

Diet: crustaceans, demersal, and pelagic fishes

Pomadasys argenteus

Barred Javelin Fish

Diet: prawns and crabs

Acanthopagrus australis

Yellowfin Bream

Diet: small crabs, prawns, molluscs, small fish

Trachinotus coppingeri

Swallowtail Dart Fish

Diet: worms, small crustaceans, small mollusks

Telescopium telescopium

Telescope snails

Diet: decomposed organic matter

Rhizophora apiculata

Tall stilt mangrove

Large, oval, waxy leaves

Nypa fruticans

Palm mangrove

Small-leafed orange mangrove

Bruguiera parviflora

Sporobolus virginicus

Salt Couch / Seashore dropseed

Juncus kraussii

Jointed rush

Acrostichum speciosum

Mangrove Fern

Suaeda maritima

Seablite

Matuta lunaris

Spotted moon crab

Usually a beige color

Diet: worms, mollusks

Periophthalmus argentilineatus

Barred mudskipper

Diet: Insects, algae

Ocypode sp.

Ghost crab

Diet: insects, smaller crabs

Lutjanus argentimaculatus

Mangrove red snapper

Diet: fishes, crustaceans, gastropods and cephalopod molluscs

Sphyraena jello

Pickhandle Barracuda

Diet: grunts, groupers, snappers, small tunas, herrings, and other prey like shrimp, and cephalopods

Herklotsichthys castelnaui

Southern Herring

Diet: small fish and crustaceans

Gerres subfasciatus

Silver Biddy

Diet: bottom-dwelling invertebrates

Calianassa australiensis

Marine Yabby

Diet: detritus

Leiognathus equulus

Common Ponyfish

Diet: worms, small crustaceans

Lumnitzera racemosa

White-flowered Black Mangrove

Excoecaria agallocha

Blind-your-eye mangrove