The Action Plan for Australian freshwater fishes
R. Wager and P. Jackson
Environment Australia, June 1993
ISBN 0 6421 6818 0
Action Plan conservation status listing
Extinct (in the wild) species
Family Melanotaenidae
- Lake Eacham Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia eachamensis)
Endangered species
Family Galaxidae
- Swan Galaxias (Galaxias fontanus)
- Barred Galaxias (Galaxias fuscus)
- Clarence Galaxias (Galaxias johnstoni)
- Pedder Galaxias (Galaxias pedderensis)
Family Pseudomugilidae
- Red-finned Blue-Eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis)
Family Percichthyidae
- Trout Cod (Maccullochella macquariensis)
- Clarence River Cod (Maccullochella sp.A)
- Mary River Cod (Maccullochella sp.B)
Family Gobiidae
Elizabeth Springs Goby (Chlamydogobius sp.A)
Vulnerable species
Family Prototroctidae
- Australian Grayling (Prototroctes maraena)
Family Galaxiidae
- Dwarf Galaxias (Galaxiella pusilla)
- Saddled Galaxias (Galaxias tanycephalus)
Family Pseudomugilidae
- Honey Blue-eye (Pseudomugil mellis)
Family Atherinidae
- Murray Hardyhead (Craterocephalus fluviatilis)
Family Nannopercidae
- Yarra Pygmy Perch (Edelia obscura)
- Oxleyan Pygmy Perch (Nannoperca oxleyana)
- Ewen's Pygmy Perch (Nannoperca variegata)
Poorly Known species
Family Mordaciidae
- Non-parasitic Lamprey (Mordacia praecox)
Family Engraulidae
- Freshwater Anchovy (Thryssa scratchleyi)
Family Galaxiidae
- Swamp Galaxias (Galaxias parvus)
Family Plotosidae
- False Spine Catfish (Neosilurus sp.C)
- Small Mouthed Catfish (Cinetodus froggatti)
Family Atherinidae
- Magela Hardyhead (Craterocephalus marianae)
Family Synbranchidae
- Blind Cave Eel (Ophisternon candidum)
Family Chandidae
- Yellow-fin Perchlet (Ambassis elongatus)
Family Percichthyidae
- Macquarie Perch (Macquaria australasica)
Family Terapontidae
- Gilbert's Grunter (Pingalla gilberti)
- Leathery Grunter (Scortum hilli)
- Angalarri Grunter (Scortum sp.)
- Kimberley Grunter (Syncomistes kimberleyensis)
Family Khuliidae
- Spotted Flagtail (Kuhlia marginata)
Family Toxotidae
- Large-scale Archerfish (Toxotes oligolepis)
Family Eleotrididae
- Slender Gudgeon (Hypseleotris ejuncida)
- Barnett River Gudgeon (Hypseleotris kimberleyensis)
- Prince Regent Gudgeon (Hypseleotris regalis)
Family Gobiidae
- Edgbaston Goby (Chlamydogobius sp.B)
Rare species
Family Osteoglossidae
- Southern Saratoga (Scleropages leichhardti)
Family Galaxiidae
- Murray Jollytail (Galaxias rostratus)
- Black-striped Minnow (Galaxiella nigrostriata)
- Arthurs Paragalaxias (Pargalaxias mesotes)
Family Lepidogalaxiidae
- Salamanderfish (Lepidogalaxias salamandroides)
Family Plotosidae
- Dalhousie Catfish (Neosilurus sp A.)
- Cooper Creek Tandan (Neosilurus sp.B)
- Bellinger River Tandan (Tandanus sp.A)
Family Melanotaenidae
- Cairns Rainbowfish (Cairnsichthys rhombosomoides)
- Exquisite Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia exquisita)
- Slender Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia gracilis)
- Pygmy Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia pygmaea)
Family Atherinidae
- Darling River Hardyhead (Craterocephalus amniculus)
- Finke River Hardyhead (Craterocephalus centralis)
- Dalhousie Hardyhead (Craterocephalus dalhousiensis)
- Glover's Hardyhead (Craterocephalus gloveri)
- Drysdale Hardyhead (Craterocephalus helenae)
- Prince Regent Hardyhead (Craterocephalus lentiginosus)
Family Chandidae
- Agassiz's Perchlet (Ambassis agassizi)
Family Terapontidae
- Greenway's Grunter (Hannia greenwayi)
- Long-nose Sooty Grunter (Hephaestus epirrhinos)
- Fortesque Grunter (Leiopotherapon aheneus)
- Large-scale Grunter (Leiopotherapon macrolepis)
- Midgley's Grunter (Pingalla midgleyi)
- Small-headed Grunter (Scortum parviceps)
- Drysdale Grunter (Syncomistes rastellus)
Family Nannopercidae
- Balston's Pygmy Perch (Nannatherina balstoni)
Family Eleotrididae
- Golden Gudgeon (Hypseleotris aurea)
- Mitchell Gudgeon (Kimberleyeleotris hutchinsi)
- Drysdale Gudgeon (Kimberleyeleotris notata)
- Blind Gudgeon (Milyeringa veritas)
- Purple Spotted Gudgeon (Mogurnda adspersa)
- False-spotted Gudgeon (Mogurnda sp.A)
- Flinders Ranges Gudgeon (Mogurnda sp.B)
Family Gobiidae
- Dalhousie Goby (Chlamydogobius sp.C)
- Mulgrave Goby (Glossogobius sp.C)
| Conservation status category | Number of species | Percentage of total number of freshwater fish fauna |
|---|---|---|
| Extinct | 0 | 0 |
| Extinct (in the wild) | 1 | 0.5 |
| Endangered | 9 | 4.1 |
| Vulnerable | 8 | 3.7 |
| Poorly Known | 19 | 8.8 |
| Rare | 36 | 16.6 |