Fish survey of South Passage Shark Bay, Western Australia: Fishes Checklist

In April 1979, 323 species of fish were recorded from the South Passage area of Shark Bay. The majority of these are tropical species (83%), with smaller numbers of warm temperate (11%) and cool temperate (6%) species. Many of the tropical species, however, were found to be present in only low numbers, while some warm temperate and one cool temperate species were abundant. The fishes of South Passage, therefore, are considered to belong to an impoverished tropical fauna. Furthermore, South Passage is the southernmost mainland area of Western Australia which supports a predominantly tropical fish fauna. Its fauna is even more diverse than that of the Houtman Abrolhos, a very much larger area of offshore islands and coral reefs located to the south off Geraldton.

Citation: Hutchins J B, Earl C (2023). Fish survey of South Passage Shark Bay, Western Australia: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/zzrggg

Published: September 13, 2023 at 23:02

License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

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