Goatfish are found around southern Australia, but one species is mainly at home only in rugby league Eastern States. It even has blue stripes.

This goatfish is superficially similar to all other Australian goatfish but its endemic (only found) in the temperate marine waters of eastern and southeastern Australia, from about Fraser Island, southern Queensland to Lakes Entrance, eastern Victoria. Bluestriped Goatfish hang about on the sandy seabeds of sheltered bays and harbours, probing the sediment for prey with their sensory barbels. They have fine teeth and without crushing molars, and feed on small molluscs, crustaceans, worms echinoderms (urchins) and small fish. They often forage over the bottom in small schools, and have been collected from 5-200 m.

Photo: John Turnbull, Shiprock, Port Hacking, New South Wales