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Map of Australia. The list of marine animals of Australia (temperate waters) is a list of marine and shore-based species that form a part of the fauna of Australia.This list includes animals which either live entirely marine lives, or which spend critical parts of their lives at sea.
Gulf St Vincent (foreground) and Yorke Peninsula, facing south west. Gulf St Vincent, sometimes referred to as St Vincent Gulf, St Vincent's Gulf or Gulf of St Vincent, is the eastern of two large inlets of water on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, the other being the larger Spencer Gulf, from which it is separated by Yorke Peninsula.
Locator map of the protected area The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] composed of over 2,900 individual reefs [ 3 ] and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi).
The deep water of the Lombok Strait between Bali and Lombok formed a water barrier even when lower sea levels linked the now-separated islands and landmasses on either side. The Wallace line or Wallace's line is a faunal boundary line drawn in 1859 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and named by the English biologist T.H. Huxley .
Organisms in the abyssal zone rely on the natural processes of higher ocean layers. When animals from higher ocean levels die, their carcasses occasionally drift down to the abyssal zone, where organisms in the deep can feed on them. When a whale carcass falls down to the abyssal zone, this is called a whale fall. The carcass of the whale can ...
SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium (formerly Sydney Aquarium) is a public aquarium in Sydney, Australia.Opened in 1988, it features a large variety of Australian aquatic life, displaying more than 700 species comprising more than 13,000 individual fish and other sea and water creatures from most of Australia's water habitats.
It brings warm nutrient-poor waters from the Coral Sea down the east coast of Australia to the cool waters of the Tasman Sea. This current is the strongest along the Australian coasts and transforms 30 million m 3 /s of water within a flow band of about 100 kilometres wide and 500 metres deep. The current is strongest around February and ...
The Australian giant cuttlefish is one of the marine invertebrates featured in "Creatures of the Deep". Marine invertebrates, the descendants of one billion years of evolutionary history, are the most abundant creatures in the ocean. In hydrothermal vents, live creatures such as Pompeii worms, crabs, and tube worms.