This huge order of fish includes over 150 families of distinctive looking fish and contains over 40% of all bony fish. This website does not attempt to showcase all the species, but gives an insight to the families of fish we see in Sydney's coastal waters. There are many other types of fish that should be listed in here that I am sure people come across through fishing or commercial work, but this website tries to show the types of fish you can see through recreational snorkelling and diving - the more accessible fish that should be seen and not touched!

Blackfish (Girellidae)
Blennies (Blenniidae)
Bullseye (Pepherididae)
Butterflyfish (Chaetodontidae)
Cales & Weed Whitings (Odacidae)
Cardinalfish (Apogonidae)
Damselfish (Pomacentridae)
Dart Gobies (Microdesmidae)
Fusiliers (Lutjanidae)
Goatfish (Mullidae)
Gobies (Gobiidae)
Grubfish (Pinguipedidae)
Hawkfish (Cirrhitidae)

Jacks and Trevallies (Carangidae)
Longfins & Hulafish (Plesiopidae)
Mados & Stripeys (Microcathidae)
Moorish Idol (Zanclidae)
Morwongs (Cheilodactylidae)
Old Wife (Enoplosidae)
Rockcods & Seaperch (Serranidae)
Seacarp (Aplodactylidae)
Silver Batfish (Monodactylidae)
Sweeps (Scorpididae)
Snapper and Bream (Sparidae)
Threefins (Tripterygiidae)
Wrasse (Labridae)