“…Previous studies of the reproductive biology of these species have been limited to tropical northern Australian waters, where both species have historically been by-catch and by-product species in a number of commercial gillnet and prawn-trawl fisheries (Stevens & McLoughlin, 1991;Simpfendorfer, 1999;Stobutzki et al, 2002;Harry et al, 2011). Reproductive observations have been made for both H. australiensis and R. taylori from the Timor and Arafura Seas, and the North West Shelf, WA (Stevens & Cuthbert, 1983;Stevens & McLoughlin, 1991), and the reproductive biology (Simpfendorfer, 1992;Waltrick et al, 2014), demography (Simpfendorfer, 1999) and habitat use (Munroe et al, 2014) of R. taylori has been well-studied in Cleveland Bay, Townsville, c. 1250 km north of Moreton Bay. Little is known, however, about these species' reproductive biology in the sub-tropical waters of southern Queensland, despite their abundance in Moreton Bay (Taylor et al, 2015) and harvest by commercial gillnet fishers operating in the Queensland East Coast Inshore Finfish Fishery (Taylor & Bennett, 2013;Harry et al, 2016).…”