In most people's cognition, most of the colorful and colorful seawater fish belong to tropical fish, and those living in temperate and subtropical cold-water fish are the kind of gray or brown look very earthy feeling, but in fact, in some temperate marine areas living fish have no less than the tropical fish as the elegant shape and gorgeous body color, the southern sea of Australia is one of them, in this sea live a variety of cold water beautiful fish, Among them are these temperate pufferfish that inhabit only southern Australia, some of them are elegant, some are cute-
Monothorphalus/Monacanthidae
Horse-faced single-spiny puffers/Meuschenia
There are a total of 8 species in this genus, all distributed in the southern part of Australia and New Zealand, mainly inhabiting coastal or estuaries full of seaweed and sponge reef areas, feeding on the attachments on the reef, can be used as edible fish, the fish of this genus have a variety of blue stripes and stripes, very beautiful.
Spotted horse-faced single-spiny pufferfish/Meuschenia freycineti
Jervis Bay Marine Park in New South Wales
The reins resemble horse-faced single-spiny pufferfish/Meuschenia hippocrepis
Taken on Flinders Island, Tasmania
Blue stripes resemble horse-faced single-spined pufferfish / Meuschenia galii
Rapid Bay, South Australia
Genus Acanthalutes./Acanthaluteres
There are 3 species in this genus, a small single-spiny pufferfish, brightly colored, distributed in the warm/subtropical waters from Sydney to Perth, mainly inhabiting the shallow seagrass beds and seaweed forests, preferring to hide between seaweeds to avoid predators, and has been fed on small mollusks and arthropods
Reins tailed single-spiny pufferfish /Acanthaluteres spilomelanurus
Photo by Port Phillip in Melbourne, Victoria
Ring thorn-tailed single-spiny puffer / Acanthaluteres vittiger
Photographed on the Fihicina Peninsula in Tasmania
Brachaluteres
There are a total of 4 species in this genus, Australia has 2 species, namely Taylor's short leather single spiny pufferfish and Jackson short leather single spiny pufferfish, the latter distributed in the tropical waters of Queensland and northern New South Wales, the former is distributed in the temperate waters from southeast to southwest Australia, and the other two are in the tropical regions of the Red Sea and the Japanese sea is a very small single spiny pufferfish, inhabiting the relatively calm bays and shallow seas, generally near the seaweed, this fish is more round, similar to the box pufferfish, very cute looking
Jackson Short Leather Single Spiny Puffer / Brachaluteres Jacksonianus
Juvenile Jackson Short Leather Single Spiny Puffer/ Brachaluteres Jacksonianus
Sawthorn spp
There are 6 species in this genus, endemic to Australia, and is a widely distributed warm/subtropical fish, some inhabiting offshore and estuaries, while others inhabit reef areas of the deep continental shelf, and have been fed by small organisms
Eubalichthys mosaicus
Botany Bay in Sydney, New South Wales
Gunnii sawthorn single-spined puffer / Eubalichthys gunnii
Horsefish/Thamnaconus
Fish of this genus are widely distributed in the Pacific, of which there are 6 species in Australia, but only the Tarponyenum is a warm/subtropical marine fish, which inhabits southern Australia, from Tasmania to southern Western Australia, and is light brownish gray to pale greenish grey with bright blue spots, generally inhabiting the continental shelf.
Thamnaconus degeni
Photographed in St. Vincent's Bay, South Australia
Hexagonal puffers/Aracanidae
Granular hexagonal box puffers/Anoplocapros
There are 3 species in this genus, which are endemic to Australia, distributed in the warm/subtropical marine fish from New South Wales to Western Australia, with an oval body and a very hard texture, inhabiting deep water along the coast, often appearing near sponge-covered reefs, very cute-looking, with box puffer toxins
Anoplocapros amygdaloides
Basselton, Western Australia
Anoplocapros inermis
Leukorrholus hexagonal box puffer/Anoplocapros lenticularis
Photo taken on Rottnest Island, Western Australia
Hexagram/Aracana
This genus has a total of 2 species, for australia-specific genus, distributed in Victoria, Tasmania to Western Australia temperate waters, the body shape is round, the texture is hard, its body color is extremely gorgeous, once introduced to China as an aquarium fish, commonly known as dragon papaya, but because of the bright body color of this fish in China is regarded as a tropical fish, almost all the aquarium websites that introduce this fish say that the water temperature of this fish is 24-27 degrees, but in fact, the maximum annual water temperature of the native habitat of this fish is not even 20 degrees, As a result, this fish is not fed by anyone in China and is very niche...
Golden hexagonal box puffer/Aracana aurita
Lidorns the six-sided box puffer/Aracana ornata
Photo taken on morningnighton peninsula, Victoria
Tetraodontidae
The genus Canthigaster is a genus of pointed pufferfish
Most species of the genus Pointed-nosed Pufferfish are tropical creatures, but in Oceania there is a species called the Beautiful Horny-nosed Pufferfish, which is distributed in the temperate subtropical waters of New South Wales and New Zealand, Australia, and is notable by parallel dark stripes and white gaps extending from the sides of the body, and this fish mainly inhabits reef areas
Beautiful pointed-nosed pufferfish Canthigaster callisterna in Halifax Park in Port Stephens, New South Wales
Accustomed to the tropical style of the Great Barrier Reef, but at the same time, in the relatively unpopular southern Australian seaweed forests and sponge-covered rocky reef waters, together with these beautiful little creatures, they have also successfully created an underwater world that is no less beautiful than the gorgeous coral reefs and tropical fish in the tropics.
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