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The Great Barrier Reef is over 2000 kilometers long It stretches from southern Queensland to beyond the northernmost

t tip of Australia, towards Papua New Guinea The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park covers an area half the size of Texas It's the only living structure that's visible from the moon Almost 3000 separate coral reefs and over 900 islands go towards making up the Great Barrier Reef

More than just fish and coral The Great Barrier Reef is home to a stunning array of animals, from microscopic plankton to whales weighing more than 100 tonnes. More than just fish and coral, the Great Barrier Reef supports:

1625 species of fish, including 1400 coral reef species More than 3000 species of molluscs (shells) 630 species of echinoderm (starfish, sea urchins) 14 breeding species of sea snakes 215 species of birds including 22 species of seabirds and 32 species of shorebirds Six of the world's seven species of marine turtle 30 species of whales and dolphins One of the world's most important dugong populations 133 species of sharks and rays ....and much more

http://www.reef.crc.org.au/discover/plantsanimals/facts_plantanimal.htm

Acanthurus dussumieri Eyestripe surgeonfish Range: Indo-Pacific: East Africa to the Hawaiian and Line Islands, north to southern Japan, south to Rowley Shoals, southern Great Barrier Reef and Lord Howe Island, Guam in Micronesia; absent from most of central Pacific. Mascarene Island

Amphiprion ocellaris Clown anemonefish Range: Indo-West Pacific: eastern Indian Ocean including Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Malaysia, and northwest Australia to Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines Synonyms: false percula clownfish

Carcharodon carcharias Great white shark Range: Cosmopolitan, mostly amphitemperate. Western Atlantic: Newfoundland to Argentina; Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas, Cuba and Lesser Antilles. Eastern Atlantic: France to South Africa, Mediterranean. Indian Ocean: Red Sea, Seychelles, South Africa. Western Pacific: Siberia to New Zealand and the Marshall Is.; south Australia. Central Pacific: Hawaii. Eastern Pacific: Alaska to Chile. Synonyms: white pointer, white death, jaws

Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura Blue-head fairy wrasse Range: Western Pacific: Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Indonesia, and Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Eastern Indian Ocean: Rowely Shoals, Similan Islands, Andaman Sea and Christmas Island Synonyms: velvet wrasse, velvet multicolor wrasse, purple fairy wrasse, blueside wrasse

Naso lituratus Orangespine unicornfish Range: Pacific Ocean: Honshu, Japan south to the Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia; east in Oceania to the Hawaiian Islands, all the islands of French Polynesia, and the Pitcairn Islands. In the eastern Pacific, from Clipperton Island Synonyms: orangespined surgeonfish, orange-spined unicornfish

Naso vlamingii Big-nosed unicornfish Range: Indo-Pacific: East Africa to the Line, Marquesan and Tuamotus islands; north to southern Japan, south to the southern Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia. Throughout Micronesia.

Pseudanthias hypselosoma Stocky anthias

Range: Indo-Pacific: Maldives to Samoa, north to Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, south to the Great Barrier Reef

Ptereleotris zebra Zebra dartfish Range: Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and islands in the western Indian Ocean to the Line and Marquesan Islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to the southern Great Barrier Reef; Mariana and Marshall Islands in Micronesia Synonyms: chinese zebra goby

Serranocirrhitus latus Sunburst anthias Range: Western Pacific: Japan and Taiwan south to New Caledonia, Fiji, and the Great Barrier Reef; Palau in Micronesia Synonyms: fathead anthias, hawk anthias

Zebrasoma veliferum Sailfin tang Range: Indo-Pacific: Indonesia to the the Hawaiian and Tuamotu islands, north to southern Japan, south to the southern Great Barrier Reef, New Caledonia, and Rapa I.; throughout Micronesia. Replaced by the similar Z. desjardinii in the Indian Ocean. Also known in Line, Society, Austral and Rapa Islands

Zebrasoma xanthurum Yellowtail tang Range: Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea to the Persian Gulf

Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus)

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