Red Lipped Batfish




This fish has a broad head, slight body, and is covered in large gnarled lumps. Batfish are not good swimmers; they use their pectoral fins to "walk" on the ocean floor. When the batfish reaches adulthood, its dorsal fin becomes a single spine-like projection that lures prey. Batfish eat shrimps, mollusks, small fish, crabs, and worms.

Pteropod



The pteropod is known as the "potato chip" of the oceans because it is eaten widely. It is one of the world's strangest and smallest sea creatures, growing to no bigger than the size of a lentil. They are incredibly important sources of food for fish and scientists are currently using them to study the health of the oceans.

Tunicates


Animals known as tunicates which look like meter-tall glass tulips sit on the ocean floor at a depth of about 220 meters (722 feet) on the Antarctic continental shelf are shown in this handout image made available on February 19, 2008.

Pink Anemonefish

The Pink Anemonefish is pinkish-orange with a white bar down either side of the face, and a white stripe along the back. It has a white caudal fin.

This species grows to 10cm in length.



Photograph by Tim Laman

Pink Anemonefish feed on benthic algae and zooplankton.

This fish occurs in tropical marine waters of the Western Central Pacific, from the Philippine Islands, north to Japan, throughout Micronesia, south to Australia and east to the Samoan Islands.

In Australia it is known from north-western coast of Western Australia and from the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland.