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AUSTRALIAN NATIVE FISH, FIRE TAILED GUDGEONS,
Fire tailed Gudgeon Fact Sheet
Hypseleotris galii (Ogilby, 1898)
  
*A female Firetailed Gudgeon from a depth of 0.5m, Lake
Parramatta, New South Wales, November 2001.
*A Firetailed Gudgeon from a depth of 0.5m,
Lake Parramatta, New South Wales, November 2001..
*Firetailed Gudgeons from the Australian
Museum Fish Collection. The male is above and the female below.
The Firetailed Gudgeon has a compressed body, two dorsal fins
and a small, oblique mouth that reaches to below the front of the eye.
Colouration varies with age, habitat and season. The body is
generally grey to bronze with black scale margins. During the breeding season
males can be almost black, with intense red-orange fins. There is often a black
bar above the pectoral fins base and a faint stripe along the side of the body.
Female Firetailed Gudgeons can be easily distinguished from
other species of Hypseleotris by the black area around the vent This
area is usually brown in males.
Female Firetailed Gudgeons grow to 4cm in length and males
grow to 5.5cm.
This species feeds on aquatic invertebrates.
The Firetailed Gudgeon is endemic to (only found in)
Australia. It is found in freshwater coastal streams from southern Queensland to
southern New South Wales.
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