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This population was established by NSW Fisheries translocations of juvenile fish from drying billabongs in the lower Murrumbidgee River in approximately 1915–17. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The Cataract Dam population is unique in being the only population of silver perch in an artificial impoundment that regularly and successfully recruits and is self ...
From the 18th century, early colonisers began introducing a number of exotic species including mammals, plant, birds and fish. The introduction of such fish has led to serious ecological damage, most notable being the effect of common carp in the Murray-Darling Basin. Introduced carp now dominate the freshwater systems of southern Australia ...
Octopus australis (commonly the hammer octopus[ 2][ 3] or sometimes the southern octopus[ 4][ 5][ 6]) is a species of octopus. [ 1] It gets the common name hammer octopus from a modified arm possessed by males and used in reproduction. [ 7][ 2] It was first described by William Evans Hoyle [ 8] in 1885, [ 6] based on a specimen found in Port ...
Blue groper. Achoerodus is a genus of wrasses collectively known as blue gropers. They are found in the coastal waters of southern Australia and distinguished by the bright blue colouring of the adult males. The thick-bodied blue gropers have peg teeth, heavy scales, large tails and thick lips. Juveniles are brown to green brown.
Australian lungfish are commonly found in deep pools of 3–10 m (9.8–32.8 ft) depth [14] and live in small groups under submerged logs, in dense banks of aquatic macrophytes, or in underwater caves formed by soil being washed away under tree roots on river banks. The lungfish is tolerant of cold, but prefers waters with temperatures in the ...
The black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri), also commonly known as the southern black bream, southern bream and blue-nosed bream, is a species of anadromous ray-finned fish of the porgy family Sparidae. A deep-bodied fish, it is occasionally confused with other similar species that occur within its range, but is generally distinguished from these ...
Freshwater fish of Australia are limited to approximately 280 species, even though the Australian continent is larger than the contiguous United States. [1] The small scale of species found in Australian inland waters is in some part due to the dry conditions of the continent. Rainfall is sporadic over much of the continent, and fish cannot ...
Girella elevata ('rock blackfish', 'black drummer', 'pig') caught by anglers at Barrenjoey Headland, NSW, Australia in July 2011. Girella elevata, the rock blackfish, Eastern rock blackfish, black rockfish or Eastern rock blackfish drummer is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub from the family Kyphosidae.