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Type: Fish
Location: QLD, NSW, VIC, TAS
Family: Scorpionfishes
Name: Eastern Fortescue
Scientific Name: Centropogon australis (White, 1790)
Other Names: Fortesque, Fortie, Southern Bullrout

Description: Adults are variable in colour from a bony-white to brown, with irregular dark brown to black bands across the body and eyes. Juveniles are a mottled brown and disguise themselves amongst seagrass beds of sheltered bays and estuaries, often gathering in large numbers. Adults inhabit the same areas but are also found on rubbly slopes of inshore reefs. They have two spines on either side of their head, which they can project, and 16 dorsal spines, which can inflict a painful sting.

Size: length 15 cm (maximum)
Diet: Invertebrates, small fish