Species

All
Native
Alien
By Family
Atlantic salmon
ALIEN
NATIVE
Salmo salar
Australian smelt
ALIEN
NATIVE
Retropinna semoni
Bald carp gudgeon
ALIEN
NATIVE
Hypseleotris gymnocephala
Barred galaxias
ALIEN
NATIVE
Galaxias fuscus
Bony herring
ALIEN
NATIVE
Nematalosa erebi
Boofhead carp Gudgeon
ALIEN
NATIVE
Hypseleotris bucephala
Brook char
ALIEN
NATIVE
Salvelinus fontinalis
Brown trout
ALIEN
NATIVE
Salmo trutta
Carp
ALIEN
NATIVE
Cyprinus carpio
Carp gudgeons
ALIEN
NATIVE
Hypseleotris spp.
Climbing galaxias
ALIEN
NATIVE
Galaxias brevipinnis
Common galaxias
ALIEN
NATIVE
Galaxias maculatus
Congolli
ALIEN
NATIVE
Pseudaphritis urvillii
Crucian carp
ALIEN
NATIVE
Carassius carassius
Cryptic carp gudgeon
ALIEN
NATIVE
Hypseleotris acropinna
Darling River hardyhead
ALIEN
NATIVE
Craterocephalus amniculus
Desert rainbowfish
ALIEN
NATIVE
Melanotaenia splendida tatei
Dwarf flat-headed gudgeon
ALIEN
NATIVE
Philypnodon macrostomus
Eastern gambusia
ALIEN
NATIVE
Gambusia holbrooki
Estuary perch
ALIEN
NATIVE
Percalates colonorum
Flat-headed galaxias
ALIEN
NATIVE
Galaxias rostratus
Flat-headed gudgeon
ALIEN
NATIVE
Philypnodon grandiceps
Freshwater catfish
ALIEN
NATIVE
Tandanus tandanus
Golden perch
ALIEN
NATIVE
Macquaria ambigua ambigua
Goldfish
ALIEN
NATIVE
Carassius auratus
Hyrtl's tandan
ALIEN
NATIVE
Neosilurus hyrtlii
Lagoon goby
ALIEN
NATIVE
Tasmanogobius lasti
Long-finned eel
ALIEN
NATIVE
Anguilla reinhardtii
Macquarie perch
ALIEN
NATIVE
Macquaria australasica
Mountain galaxias
ALIEN
NATIVE
Galaxias olidus
Murray cod
ALIEN
NATIVE
Maccullochella peelii
Murray hardyhead
ALIEN
NATIVE
Craterocephalus fluviatilis
Murray-Darling rainbowfish
ALIEN
NATIVE
Melanotaenia fluviatilis
Northern river blackfish
ALIEN
NATIVE
Gadopsis marmorata (previously G. marmoratus)
Obscure galaxias
ALIEN
NATIVE
Galaxias oliros
Olive perchlet
ALIEN
NATIVE
Ambassis agassizii
Oriental weatherloach
ALIEN
NATIVE
Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
Ornate galaxias
ALIEN
NATIVE
Galaxias ornatus
Pouched lamprey
ALIEN
NATIVE
Geotria australis
Rainbow trout
ALIEN
NATIVE
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Redfin perch
ALIEN
NATIVE
Perca fluviatilis
Rendahl's tandan
ALIEN
NATIVE
Porochilus rendahli
Riffle galaxias
ALIEN
NATIVE
Galaxias arcanus
Roach
ALIEN
NATIVE
Rutilus rutilus
Short-finned eel
ALIEN
NATIVE
Anguilla australis
Short-headed lamprey
ALIEN
NATIVE
Mordacia mordax
Silver perch
ALIEN
NATIVE
Bidyanus bidyanus
Silver tandan
ALIEN
NATIVE
Porochilus argenteus
Small-mouthed hardyhead
ALIEN
NATIVE
Atherinosoma microstoma
Southern purple-spotted gudgeon
ALIEN
NATIVE
Mogurnda adspersa
Southern pygmy perch
ALIEN
NATIVE
Nannoperca australis
Spangled perch
ALIEN
NATIVE
Leiopotherapon unicolor
Spotted galaxias
ALIEN
NATIVE
Galaxias truttaceus
Stocky galaxias
ALIEN
NATIVE
Galaxias tantangara
Tamar goby
ALIEN
NATIVE
Afurcagobius tamarensis
Tench
ALIEN
NATIVE
Tinca tinca
Trout cod
ALIEN
NATIVE
Maccullochella macquariensis
Two-spined blackfish
ALIEN
NATIVE
Gadopsis bispinosa (previously G. bispinosus)
Unspecked hardyhead
ALIEN
NATIVE
Craterocephalus stercusmuscarum fulvus
Western blue-spot goby
ALIEN
NATIVE
Pseudogobius olorum
Western carp gudgeon
ALIEN
NATIVE
Hypseleotris klunzingeri
Yarra pygmy perch
ALIEN
NATIVE
Nannoperca obscura
Atlantic salmon
Salmo salar
ALIEN
NATIVE
Brook char
Salvelinus fontinalis
ALIEN
NATIVE
Brown trout
Salmo trutta
ALIEN
NATIVE
Carp
Cyprinus carpio
ALIEN
NATIVE
Crucian carp
Carassius carassius
ALIEN
NATIVE
Eastern gambusia
Gambusia holbrooki
ALIEN
NATIVE
Goldfish
Carassius auratus
ALIEN
NATIVE
Oriental weatherloach
Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
ALIEN
NATIVE
Rainbow trout
Oncorhynchus mykiss
ALIEN
NATIVE
Redfin perch
Perca fluviatilis
ALIEN
NATIVE
Roach
Rutilus rutilus
ALIEN
NATIVE
Tench
Tinca tinca
ALIEN
NATIVE

Ambassidae

Anguillidae

Atherinidae

Bovichtidae

Clupeidae

Cobitidae

Cyprinidae

Eleotridae

Galaxiidae

Geotriidae

Gobiidae

Melanotaeniidae

Mordaciidae

Percichthyidae

Percidae

Plotosidae

Poecilidae

Retropinnidae

Salmonidae

Terapontidae

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