Chlidonias

brown mudfish (Neochanna apoda)

mudfish are a specialised type of galaxiid, adapted for living in oxygen-poor swampy waters (including ephemeral ones). They can aestivate underground like lungfish when the pools they live in dry up. Very cool fish.

27 September 2012
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mudfish are a specialised type of galaxiid, adapted for living in oxygen-poor swampy waters (including ephemeral ones). They can aestivate underground like lungfish when the pools they live in dry up. Very cool fish.

27 September 2012
 

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