A fish called Tim Winton: scientists name new species after novelist

The 'very beautiful' gold and silver coloured grunter is one of 20 newly-identified fish species from the remote Kimberley in Western Australia

Tim Winton - best-selling Australian writer and now, also, a fish species newly identified by a team of bioscientists. The 30cm-long grunter was one of 20 new fish species recorded during fieldwork in the Kimberley, in northern Western Australian.