N.Z. Native Marine Fish
A guide to some of the common Flaura and Flora from around the N.Z. coastline, and keeping them in aquariums.
Painted prawnÂ
The Painted Prawn is covered in small longitudinal red and blue lines giving it a brownish appearane.
Parore
A dark brownish-green coloured fish with narrow darker vertical bands. Slow growing.
Pink Maomao
A brilliantly coloured fish, pink with fins carrying a slight blue tinge.
Porcupine Fish
The body colour is grey-brown with a white stomach and irregular blackish patches on the back and sides and the head is large and bony and the body is long, tapered and covered in spines. When...
Red banded Perch
Hypoplectrodes huntii
Red Crayfish, Koura, Red Rock Lobster
A reddish crustacean with long antenna. Weighs around 8kg fully grown.
Red Gurnard
Body slender; head large, bony; Reddish to greyish brown above, pale below; fan-like pectoral fins green with blue spots, grows to 50 cm.
Red Moki
White fish with several black vertical stripes on body, rubbery lips and large pectoral fins. Weighs up to 3kgs.
Red Pigfish
Bodianus unimaculatus,
Reef Star
A large star with a varying number of arms; normally 10, 11, or 12. Colour varies from brown to grey. Reaches a span of about
Rock Cod, Bearded Cod
The Rock Cod is yellow-grey to red-brown with white fin margins. It has an eel shaped body which is covered with tiny cycloid scales. There is a barbel on the chin and juvenile fish are black in...
Rosy Weedfish
Body is orangey brown with variegated markings. Fins have translucent patches that resemble holes in seaweeds. The body is flattened to resemble a piece of seaweed.
Sargassum weedfish
The sargassum fish, anglerfish, or frog fish, Histrio histrio,[3] is a frogfish of the family Antennariidae, the only species in its genus. It lives among Sargassum seaweed which floats in...
Scarlet WrasseÂ
The Scarlet wrasse is an elongate fish of typical wrasse shape. Young fish have a red head and horizontal redish and white lines on their sides, with three pale orangish spots at the base of the...
Scorpionfish
Usually bright red but can come in various shades of brown