M. barbata originates from Atlantic coastal drainages of Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo states in Brazil.

It grows in coastal drainages and other habitat near the ocean.

E. gracilis is endemic to the Araranguá River drainage, an isolated coastal drainage in southern Santa Catarina State.

The freshwater cobbler originates from coastal drainages of southwestern Australia, from the Frankland River to the Moore River.

Hypostomus punctatus is a freshwater fish native to South America, in the coastal drainages of southeastern Brazil and Uruguay.

Stickleback species, particularly Gasterosteus aculeatus and Pungitius pungitius, also occur in many coastal drainages, and are likely present in freshwater as well.

Ecological notes on the fis fauna of a coastal drainage of North Borneo.

Synodontis obesus is a species of upside-down catfish native to the coastal drainages of Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo.

Hobo Canyon is a small coastal drainage formed in much the same way as Wood Canyon.

It originates in coastal drainages in South America from Rio de Janeiro to Santa Catarina, Brazil.