The Action Plan for Australian freshwater fishes
R. Wager and P. Jackson
Environment Australia, June 1993
ISBN 0 6421 6818 0
Appendix 1 – List of non-threatened Australian freshwater fishes
Family Mordaciidae
- Short-headed Lamprey (Mordacia mordax)
Family Geotridae
- Pouched Lamprey (Geotria australis)
Family Dasyatidae
- River Stingray (Dasyatis fluviorum)
Family Pristidae
- Leichhardt's Sawfish (Pristis pristis)
Family Carcharhinidae
- River Whaler (Carcharhinus leucas)
Family Ceratodidae
- Queensland Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri)
Family Osteoglossidae
- Gulf Saratoga (Scleropages jardinii)
Family Megalopidae
- Oxeye Herring (Megalops cyprinoides)
Family Anguillidae
- Short-finned Eel (Anguilla australis)
- Northern Eel (Anguilla bicolor)
- South Pacific Eel (Anguilla obscura)
- Long-finned Eel (Anguilla reinhardtii)
Family Clupeidae
- Bony Bream (Nematolosa erebi)
- Freshwater Herring (Potamalosa richmondia)
Family Retropinnidae
- Australian Smelt (Retropinna semoni)
- Tasmanian Smelt (Retropinna tasmanica)
Family Aplochitonidae
- Tasmanian Whitebait (Lovettia sealii)
Family Galaxiidae
- Golden Galaxias (Galaxias auratus)
- Climbing Galaxias (Galaxias brevipinnis)
- Tasmanian Mudfish (Galaxias cleaveri)
- Common Jollytail (Galaxias maculatus)
- Western Galaxias (Galaxias occidentalis)
- Mountain Galaxias (Galaxias olidus)
- Spotted Mountain Trout (Galaxias truttaceus)
- Mud Minnow (Galaxiella munda)
- Shannon Paragalaxias (Paragalaxias dissimilis)
- Great Lake Darter (Paragalaxias eleotroides)
- Julian Paragalaxias (Paragalaxias julianus)
Family Ariidae
- Berney's Catfish (Arius berneyi)
- Lesser Salmon Catfish (Arius graeffei)
- Triangular Shield Catfish (Arius leptaspis)
- Shovel-nosed Catfish (Arius midgleyi)
Family Plotosidae
- Toothless Catfish (Anodontiglanis dahli)
- Black Catfish (Neosilurus ater)
- Short-finned Catfish (Neosilurus brevidorsalis)
- Hyrtl's Tandan (Glencoe Tandan) (Neosilurus hyrtli)
- Silver Tandan (Porochilus argenteus)
- Obbe's Catfish (Porochilus obbesi)
- Rendahl's Tandan (Porochilus rendahli)
- Freshwater Cobbler (Tandanus bostocki)
- Eel-tailed Catfish (Tandanus tandanus)
Family Hemiramphidae
- Northern Snub-nosed Garfish (Arrhamphus sclerolepis sclerolepis)
- Southern Snub-nosed Garfish (Arrhamphus sclerolepis krefftii)
Family Belonidae
- Freshwater Long Tom (Strongylura krefftii)
Family Atherinidae
- Western Hardyhead (Atherinosoma wallacei)
- Murchison River Hardyhead (Craterocephalus cuneiceps)
- Lake Eyre Hardyhead (Craterocephalus eyresii)
- Marjorie's Hardyhead (Craterocephalus marjoriae)
- Fly-specked Hardyhead (Craterocephalus stercusmuscarum stecusmuscarum)
- Fly-specked Hardyhead (Craterocephalus stercusmuscarum fulvus)
- Strawman (Quirichthys stramineus)
Family Melanotaenidae
- Threadfin Rainbowfish (Iriatherina werneri)
- Duboulay's Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia duboulayi)
- Crimson Spotted Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia fluviatilis)
- McCulloch's Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia maccullochi)
- Blackbanded Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia nigrans)
- Western Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia splendida australis)
- Chequered Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia splendida inornata)
- Eastern Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia splendida splendida)
- Desert Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia splendida tatei)
- Banded Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia trifasciata)
- Ornate Rainbowfish (Rhad) (Rhadinocentrus ornatus)
Family Pseudomugilidae
- Blue-back Blue-eye (Pseudomugil cyanodorsalis)
- Spotted Blue-eye (Pseudomugil gertrudae)
- Inconspicuous Blue-eye (Pseudomugil inconspicuus)
- Pacific Blue-eye (Pseudomugil signifer)
- Delicate Blue-eye (Pseudomugil tenellus)
Family Synbranchidae
- Belut (Monopterus albus)
- Swamp Eel (Ophisternon gutterale)
Family Scorpaenidae
- Bullrout (Notesthes robusta)
Family Centropomidae
- Barramundi (Lates calcarifer)
Family Chandidae
- Sail-fin Perchlet (Ambassis agrammus)
- Reticulated Perchlet (Ambassis macleayi)
- Flag-tailed Perchlet (Ambassis miops)
- Mueller's Perchlet (Ambassis mulleri)
- Pennyfish (Denariusa bandata)
- Giant Perchlet (Parambassis gulliveri)
Family Percichthyidae
- Night Fish (Bostockia porosa)
- Murray Cod (Maccullochella peeli)
- Murray-Darling Golden Perch (Macquaria ambigua)
- Dawson River Golden Perch (Macquaria ambigua subsp.A)
- Lake Eyre Golden Perch (Macquaria sp.A)
- Estuary Perch (Macquaria colonorum)
- Australian Bass (Macquaria novemaculeata)
Family Terapontidae
- Banded Grunter (Amniataba percoides)
- Silver Perch (Bidyanus bidyanus)
- Welch's Grunter (Bidyanus welchi)
- Coal Grunter (Hephaestus carbo)
- Sooty Grunter (Hephaestus fuliginosus)
- Jenkin's Grunter (Hephaestus jenkinsi)
- Spangled Perch (Leiopotherapon unicolor)
- Lorentz's Grunter (Pingalla lorentzi)
- Barcoo Grunter (Scortum barcoo)
- Butler's Grunter (Syncomistes butleri)
- Long-nosed Grunter (Syncomistes trigonicus)
Family Kuhliidae
- Jungle Perch (Kuhlia rupestris)
Family Nannopercidae
- Western Pygmy Perch (Edelia vittata)
- Southern Pygmy Perch (Nannoperca australis)
Family Apogonidae
- Northern Mouth Almighty (Glossamia aprion aprion)
- Southern Mouth Almighty (Glossamia aprion gillii)
Family Lutjanidae
- Mangrove Jack (Lutjanus argentimaculatus)
Family Monodactylida
- Silver Batfish (Monodactylus argenteus)
Family Toxotidae
- Common Archerfish (Toxotes chatareus)
- Lorentz's Archerfish (Toxotes lorentzi)
Family Scatophagidae
- Tiger Scat (Scatophagus argus)
- Striped Scat (Selenotoca multifasciata)
Family Gadopsidae
- Two-spined Blackfish (Gadopsis bispinosus)
- River Blackfish (Gadopsis marmoratus)
Family Mugillidae
- Sea Mullet (Mugil cephalus)
- Freshwater Mullet (Myxus petardi)
Family Bovichthyidae
- Congolli (Pseudaphritis urvillii)
Family Eleotrididae
- Striped Gudgeon (Gobiomorphus australis)
- Cox's Gudgeon (Gobiomorphus coxii)
- Empire Gudgeon (Hypseleotris compressa)
- Firetail Gudgeon (Hypseleotris galii)
- Western Carp Gudgeon (Hypseleotris klunzingeri)
- Midgley's Carp Gudgeon (Hypseleotris sp.A)
- Lake's Carp Gudgeon (Hypseleotris sp.B)
- Northern Trout Gudgeon (Mogurnda mogurnda)
- Snakehead Gudgeon (Ophieleotris aporos)
- Spangled Gudgeon (Ophiocara porocephala)
- Aru Gudgeon (Oxyeleotris aruensis)
- Fimbriate Gudgeon (Oxyeleotris fimbriata)
- Sleepy Cod (Oxyeleotris lineolatus)
- Daly River Gudgeon (Oxyeleotris nullipora)
- Giant Gudgeon (Oxyeleotris sp.A)
- Big-headed Gudgeon (Philypnodon grandiceps)
- Dwarf Flathead Gudgeon (Philypnodon sp.A)
- Small-eyed Gudgeon (Prionobutis microps)
Family Gobiidae
- Roman Nose Goby (Awaous crassilabrus)
- Desert Goby (Chlamydogobius eremius)
- Golden Goby (Glossogobius aureus)
- Celebes Goby (Glossogobius celebius)
- Concave Goby (Glossogobius concavifrons)
- Flathead Goby (Glossogobius giurus)
- Dwarf Goby (Glossogobius sp A.)
- Square-blotch Goby (Glossogobius sp B.)
- Swan River Goby (Pseudogobius olorum)
- Bug-eyed Goby (Redigobius bikolanus)
- Scaleless Goby (Schismatogobius sp.)
Family Kurtidae
Nursery Fish (Kurtus gulliveri)
Family Soleidae
- Tailed Sole (Aseraggodes klunzingeri)
- Saltpan Sole (Brachirus salinarum)
- Selheim's Sole (Brachirus selheimi)
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