Tasmanian mudfish
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| Species: | N. cleaveri
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| Neochanna cleaveri (Scott, 1934)
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The Tasmanian mudfish (Neochanna cleaveri) is a galaxiid of the genus Neochanna, found only in swamps and wetlands along the northern, western and southeastern coasts of Tasmania, Australia, and also from Flinders Island in Bass Strait, and Wilson's Promontory, in Victoria, Australia. Its length is up to 125 mm.
During dry summers Tasmanian mudfish aestivate, buried in mud or beneath logs or stones when pools dry up.
Food is partly bottom detritus and insects.
References
- "Neochanna cleaveri". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 6 June.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Neochanna diversus". FishBase. March 2006 version.
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