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Red Grouper : They may grow to 3 feet in length and average 10 pounds, though some reach a whopping 40 pounds.

Snapper: Snappers are usally pinkish brown on the upper half and on the lower side it is silvery.

Do all fishes have scales?

No. Many species of fishes lack scales.Their bodies are protected by a thick layer of slimy skin.

Why do fish have scales?

The purpose of scales is to give the fish protection. There are 4 types of scales such as

Placoid
Cosmoid
Ganoid
Cycloid and Ctenoid.

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A B C Australian Bass Australian Lungfish Australian Smelt Australian Spotted Gudgeon - see Northern Purple Spotted Gudgeon Barramundi Barred Galaxias Berney's Catfish Bidyan - see Silver Perch Blackfish - see River Blackfish Black Grunter - see Coal Grunter Blue Nosed Cod - see Trout Cod Bobby Perch, Bobby Cod - see Spangled Perch Brown Galaxias - see Barred Galaxias Butler's Grunter Callop - see Golden Perch Ceratodus see Australian Lungfish Chequered Gudgeon - see Northern Purple Spotted Gudgeon Climbing Galaxias Coal Grunter Common Galaxias Common Jollytail - see Common Galaxias Congoli - see Tupong Crimson Spotted Rainbowfish

	D E F Djella see Australian Lungfish Dwarf galaxias Eel - see Short Finned Eel Eel-Tailed Catfish Estuary Perch Ewan Pygmy Perch -see Variegated Pygmy Perch Flat-Headed Galaxias Flat-Headed Gudgeon Freshwater Flathead - see Tupong

	G H I Gill's Cardinalfish - see Mouth Almighty Golden Perch Gulf Saratoga Inland Galaxias - see Mountain Galaxias

	J K L Jewel Perch - see Spangled Perch Jungle Perch

	M N O Macquarie Perch Mangrove Jack Marbled Galaxias - see Mountain Galaxias Mountain Galaxias Mountain trout Murray Cod Mouth Almighty Murray Cray - see Spiny Freshwater Crayfish Murray Perch - see Golden Perch or Silver Perch Northern Purple Spotted Gudgeon Northern Trout Gudgeon - see Northern Purple Spotted Gudgeon Ornate Mountain Galaxias - see Mountain Galaxias

	P Q R S Purple Spotted Gudgeon - see Northern Purple Spotted Gudgeon or Southern Purple Spotted Gudgeon Queensland Lungfish see Australian Lungfish Queensland Mouthbrooder - see Mouth Almighty River Blackfish Saratoga Short Finned Eel Silver Perch Sleepy Cod Slimy, Slippery - see River Blackfish or Two-Spined Blackfish Smelt - see Australian Smelt Sooty Grunter Southern Purple Spotted Gudgeon Southern Pygmy Perch Spangled Perch, Spangled Grunter Spiny Freshwater Crayfish Spotted Mountain Trout, Spotted Galaxias

	T U V Tamar Goby Trout Cod Trout Cod (Queensland) - see Spangled Perch Trout Gudgeon - see Northern Purple Spotted Gudgeon Tupong Two-Spined Blackfish Variegated Pygmy Perch Victorian Smelt - see Australian Smelt

	W X Y Z Western Carp Gudgeon Western Galaxias Western Pygmy Perch, Westralian Pygmy Perch Yabby Yarra Pigmy perch Yellowbelly - see Golden Perch


	Scientific Names

	Afurcagobius tamarensis Anguilla australis Arius berneyi Bidyanus bidyanus Cheerax destructor Edelia obscura see - Nannoperca obscura Edelia vittata see - Nannoperca vittata Euastacus spp. Gadopsis bispinosis Gadopsis marmoratus Galaxias brevipinnis Galaxias fuscus Galaxias maculatus Galaxias occidentalis Galaxias olidus Galaxias rostratus Galaxias truttaceus Galaxiella pusilla Glossamia aprion Hephaestus carbo Hephaestus fuliginosus Hypseleotris klunzingeri Kuhlia rupestris Lates calcarifer Leiopotherapon unicolor Lutjanus argentimaculatus Maccullochella macquariensis Maccullochella peelii peelii Macquaria ambigua Macquaria australasica Macquaria colonorum Macquaria novemaculeata Melanotaenia splendida fluviatilus Microperca yarrae see - Nannoperca obscura Morgurnda adspersa Morgurnda mogurnda Nannoperca australis Nannoperca obscura Nannoperca variegata Nannoperca vittata Neoceratodus forsteri Oxyeleotris lineolatus Paradules obscurus see - Nannoperca obscura Philypnodon grandiceps Pseudaphritis urvilli Retropinna semoni Scleropages jardini Scleropages leichardti Syncomistes butleri Tandanus tandanus

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Do all fishes have scales?

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