Hardyhead, colour. Pranesus ogilbyi (Whitley). Grant's "Guide to Fishes" (1965) p.43

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Artwork by Frank Olsen.

Also known as Ogilby’s Silverside, this is a relatively deep-bodied silvery-bluish-green hardyhead, with dark pectoral-fin tips, and a dark margin on the rear of the caudal fin.

This species is found from Flinders Bay in Western Australia, across the top of the country and down the Queensland coast to New South Wales. It forms schools in shallow sheltered bays, estuaries and coastal areas.

The hardyhead feeds on a range of small crustaceans, polychaete worms, gastropod molluscs, insects and insect larvae, foraminiferans, and plant matter.

Information from Fishes of Australia.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 6178

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