SHELLY OCEAN SWIMMERS MARINE BIODIVERSITY PROJECT UPDATE

Thanks to all the Observers and Identifiers in this project. We have 19 people involved as Observers and 125 Identifiers as at 14th May 2018.
We now have 1880 observations and 385 species recorded.
We have 164 Species of Ray-finned fish recorded!
This is a huge effort and I would like to congratulate our top observers who have recorded many different species: Lucy Smiechura, Diana Chou Norman, Pamela Arnold and Harry Rosenthal.

Thanks also to all the other people involved as even one small observation helps us to gather information about our amazing Cronulla area. In particular we are seeing many tropical species inhabiting our shores and we all look forward to seeing Lagoon Triggerfish, Moorish Idols and Schooling Bannerfish on our daily swims.

Now that we have been working on this project for a year I would like to thank everyone involved for your dedication to the project.

Many of our Observers are swimming every day and then rushing home to make videos, uploading to Inaturalist and awaiting identifications. None of this would be possible without our knowledgeable Identifiers and a special thanks goes to our Identifiers as we very much appreciate all your work looking through our photos and making them research grade.

This post is to acknowledge the amazing work of our trusty Identifiers..Look at what they have done helping us identify our Species..over the past year!!

Sascha Schulz-1093

Henrick-523

Maractwin-265

Lucyinthe sea-212

Marmcg-176

Fiftygrit-172

Clinton-132

W-martin-87

Adammyates-77

Eschlogi-70
Phelsumas4life-50

AND many many more...... far too numerous to mention. Thanks to all of you
FROM SHELLY OCEAN SWIMMERS 2018