Abstract
As stressed in chapter III, Tasmania possesses both an abundance of fresh water and a diversity of freshwater environments. Nevertheless, the native freshwater fish fauna is relatively small and it is also unbalanced in composition. There are about twenty-three species of native fish which are commonly found in fresh water or are dependent on it for completion of their life cycle, but of these only eleven appear restricted to fresh water; the remainder are tolerant of sea water and may have a marine stage in their life cycle. There is a predominance of fish of the suborder Galaxioidei (Greenwood et al.,1966), and the family Galaxiidae contributes twelve of the twenty-three species. The remainder of the fauna comprises three other galaxioid species, two lampreys, two anguillid eels, and a single species from each of four perciform families. None of the families is confined to Tasmania, although among the galaxioids there are three endemic genera and about ten endemic species. In addition to the above, members of several predominantly marine families have been recorded in Tasmanian fresh water, but are not discussed in detail in this chapter. The following is a complete listing to the fauna. Distributions of the freshwater species are indicated in Figs. 5.1 to 5.5.
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Frankenberg, R. (1974). Native Freshwater Fish. In: Williams, W.D. (eds) Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2337-5_6
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