Wildlife links and info
Find a Creature
- Find the following creatures in Nerrilee’s World (each fish name needs a thumbnail of the illustration from the book next to it)
- Find out more about each creature at the website listed
- Play the Find-A-Word games
There are many different fish in the reefs and seas around Australia. The ones in Nerrilee's World are just some of them! Enjoy learning about them through the following links.
Long-fin bannerfish http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/hacumin.htm
Blue-stripe Sea Perch http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/lkasmira.htm
Anemone fish http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/achrysop.htm
Why don’t anemone fish get stung? http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/faq/anemonefish2.htm
Epaulette Soldierfish http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/mkuntee.htm
Vermillion seastar http://www.barwonbluff.com.au/bluff%20life/below%20waves/animals/inverts/echinoderms/pages/vermillion%20seastar.htm
Noble Featherstar http://www.scuba-equipment-usa.com/marine/MAY04/Noble_Feather_Star(Comanthina_noblis).html
Blue Seastar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_sea_star
Day Octopus http://www.seadb.univpm.it/en_Day-octopus-Octopus-cyanea_509.htm
Indian Seastar http://www.starfish.ch/c-invertebrates/seesterne.html
Southern Fusilier http://www.scuba-equipment-usa.com/marine/APR05/Southern_Fusilier(Paracaesio_xanthurus).html
Prickly Brittlestar http://www.seafriends.org.nz/enviro/habitat/rsechino.htm
Duskyfin Red Bullseye http://www.whatsthatfish.com/fish/723
Clown Triggerfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown_triggerfish
Blue-throated Triggerfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthichthys_auromarginatus
Brown Triggerfish http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/schrysopt.htm
Starry Triggerfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abalistes
Crimson Banded Wrasse http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/ngymnog.htm
Dotted Wrasse http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/nparilus.htm
Moon Wrasse http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/tlunare.htm
Green Moon Wrasse http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/tlutescens.htm
Cleaner Wrasse http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/ldimidiatus.htm
Multi-coloured Dottyback http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/O/Ogilbyina_novaehollandiae/
Common Seahorse http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/htaeniopterus.htm
Pineapplefish http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/cgloriamar.htm
Australian sealion (only one not found in Moreton Bay) http://www.austmus.gov.au/factsheets/sea_lion.htm
Yellow-lined Fangblenny http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/pfallax.htm
Crescent Perch http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/tjarbua.htm
Dugong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugong
Leather soft Coral http://www.julianrocks.net/Sessile/Sarcophyton.htm
Orange Tubular bulbous Sponge http://www.wetwebmedia.com/sponges.htm
Mysterious Golf Ball Sponge http://www.seafriends.org.nz/scrntx05/index.htm
Speckled Butterflyfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterflyfish
Blue-spot Butterflyfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterflyfish
Striped Butterflyfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterflyfish
Forceps Butterflyfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterflyfish
Dusky Butterflyfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterflyfish
Threadfin Butterflyfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterflyfish
Black-spot Sea Perch http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/mmacularis.htm
Ribbonworm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemertea
Green Turtle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_turtle
Big-scale Parma (juvenile) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parma_(genus)
Banded Wobbegong http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/oornatus.htm
Spotted Wobbegong http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/students/focus/gwobbe.htm
Estuary Stingray http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/index.cfm?event=site.image.detail&id=10223
Robust Featherstar http://www.scuba-equipment-usa.com/marine/JUL05/Black_Feather_Star(Cenolia_glebosus).html
Teachers and librarians:
Purchase Nerrilee's World, individually or as a class set.
Contact author Anne Hamilton, Illustrator Sandra Temple for speaking arrangements or to find out more about their work.