Australian Marine Animals List

A large edible sea snail of coastal waters.

Australian marine animals list. See cute marine animals in their natural habitat like the Australian Fur Seal and the Fairy Penguin. Textile Cone shell Tiger shark Tube Worm White Tube Worm Brown Tun shell. Ratites such as the emu and cassowary are large flightless birds similar to the ostrich.

With habitats ranging from desert to coral reef via tropical and temperate rainforests rivers and grasslands Australia is home to many of the worlds most recognisable animals including kangaroos koalas emus platypuses wombats and goannas. The megamouth shark Megachasma pelagios with its blunt head even larger than its abdomen is one of the most unique species of shark to roam the depths of the ocean. The main kinds of animals in the sea are whales dolphins sharks and seals which are some of the most popular and well-known kinds of sea mammals.

Taxonomic revision of the humpback dolphins Sousa spp and description of a new species from Australia. The shark washed up on the beach alive and was. Revision of the taxonomy of finless porpoises genus Neophocaena.

Marine species introduced into Western Australia include a variety of different plants and animals such as fish seastars crabs microscopic dinoflagellates shellfish and algae. The emu lives in the Australian Outback. Discover the astonishing variety of mammals birds reptiles marine life and more in the Australian Museum collections.

But this is just a small list compared to the many different kinds of fish that we know of and others we are unaware of that inhabit the marine. Once here they can harm our resources marine industries and the natural environment. The condition of Australian estuaries and bays and coastal freshwater lakes and lagoons is covered in detail in the Coasts reportThe Marine environment report provides a detailed assessment of the state and trends of marine organisms.

Famous animals found in Australia also include marine animals such as cone snail sea snake blue-ringed octopus and land animals such as Gang-gang cockatoo Emu eastern brown snake tiger snakewolf spider wedge-tailed eagle banjo frog and Blue-tongued skink here is the list of unique wild animals of Australia. Only one has been reported form Australia the third ever found which was located in Mandurah Western Australia in 1988. There are several different types of dolphin which you may come across with the most common being the Bottlenose Dolphin.