With such protection as a marine reserve offers and the natural biodiversity that the Poor Knights Islands have, the fish species seen here over the year is very impressive. Many of the species reside there all year around, whilst others will visit when food, currents and temperatures dictate.
Below are is a growing list of some of the fish we have seen and photographed since 2012. This page and the list of fishes will be added to as we find time to work on it and are lucky enough to see more species.
Fishes Q to Z
Sandager’s wrasse
Coris sandeyeri
The dominant female wrasse will turn into a male when the male wrasse dies.
The male wrasse harrasses the females and this prevents then from becoming dominant and changing sex.
Scorpion Fish
Seahorse
Scarlett Wrasse
Sharp Nose Puffer
Short tail stingray
Silver Drummer
Snake Eel
Snapper
Red Snapper
Pagrus auratus
Speckled Moray Eel
Speckled Triplefin
Splendid Perch
Sweep
Toadstool Groper
Trachypoma macracanthus
Trevally
Yaldwyn’s Triplefin
Yellow and Black Triplefin
Yellow Banded Perch
Yellow Moray Eel
Gymnothorax prasinus
Whale Shark