General stingers
http://www.scottware.com.au/awl/bite/index.htm

About the reef:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/reef/reef1_flash.html
http://www.greatbarrierreef.aus.net/vd001.html

General marine toxins:
http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/anaes/marine_enven.html
http://www.uq.edu.au/~ddbfry/index.html
http://umed.med.utah.edu/students/webpages/lincoln/dangers.html

by injection:
http://www.gulftel.com/~scubadoc/inject.htm

blue-ringed octopus
http://www.gulftel.com/~scubadoc/blueoct.htm
http://www.spunker.to/980831/octopus.html
http://www.best5.net/animal/APAsrch3.cgi?dspNum=5&qt=blue+ringed+octopus

cone snail ; Conus
http://www.gulftel.com/~scubadoc/conshl.htm
http://grimwade.biochem.unimelb.edu.au/~bgl/envenom.htm
http://grimwade.biochem.unimelb.edu.au/~bgl/3d-ctx.htm

stone fish
http://www.maui.net/~robinson/slidep4.htm
http://www.uq.edu.au/~ddbfry/index.html
 

lion fish
http://home.mem.net/~zipper/lionfish_pair.htm

sea snake
http://www.gulftel.com/~scubadoc/seasnks.htm
http://www.wch.sa.gov.au/paedm/clintox/cslavh_antivenom_seasnake.html#species
http://www.cyberkids.com/Issue4/SeaCreatures/Octopuses/Octopuses.html
http://www.uq.edu.au/~ddbfry/index.html

cubomedusans; cube jellies; sea wasps
http://www.gulftel.com/~scubadoc/boxjel.html.htm
http://www.uq.edu.au/~ddbfry/index.html
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/dec2/fenner/fenner.html
 

just irritating:
http://www.gulftel.com/~scubadoc/irritants.htm

great white shark
http://www.gulftel.com/~scubadoc/shrks.htm
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/Doug/shark.html
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bz050/HomePage.whiteshark.html
http://www.eng.utoledo.edu/~lcendere/sharks.htm

salt water crocodile
http://www.gulftel.com/~scubadoc/saltcroc.htm
http://www.maui.net/~robinson/slidep10.htm
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/brittoncrocs/csp_cpor.htm

origin of rainforest
http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/tbiol/Botany/courses/bt3280/lec6.htm

friendly animals:
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~donwilliams/gallery.html
http://www.listeningearth.com.au/

land snake or some sort
http://www.uq.edu.au/~ddbfry/index.html

spider
http://www.uq.edu.au/~ddbfry/index.html
http://www.powerup.com.au/~glen/spider3.htm

centipede
http://www.uq.edu.au/~ddbfry/index.html

Australian paralysis tick
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~norbertf/frontpage.htm

Australian bull ant
http://www.scottware.com.au/awl/bite/minbst.htm

Also see these books:

• Take Care! : Poisonous Australian Animals by Struan, Dr Sutherland, Susie Kennewell, Struan K. Sutherland
• Venomous Creatures of Australia : A Field Guide With Notes on First Aid by Struan K. Sutherland
• Venomous animals of the world [by] Roger Caras, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1974]
• Venomous animals and their venoms, edited by Wolfgang Bücherl, Eleanor E. Buckley [and] Venancio Deulofeu. Publisher,New York, Academic Press, 1968-71.

Innocuous but Lethal, by Mike Adamson -- a short story about alien lifeforms that are deadly toxic

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