Macquaria sp. nov. 'Kangaroo River'
Kangaroo River perch, Kangaroo River Macquarie perch, Shoalhaven River Macquarie perch
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing or extinct (Low & Booth, 2023)
Last record: 1998
Distribution
Kangaroo River & Shoalhaven River, Shoalhaven area, New South Wales, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Faulks, L. K., Gilligan, D. M. and Beheregaray, L. B. (2010). Evolution and maintenance of divergent lineages in an endangered freshwater fish, Macquaria australasica. Conservation Genetics 11(3): 921-934.
Garnett, Stephen T., Hayward-Brown, Brittany K. et al. (2022). Australia's most imperilled vertebrates. Biological Conservation 270: 109561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109561
Huntsdale, Justin (7 December, 2019). Murky hunt for what could be Australia's first extinct native freshwater fish. ABC News (online). Availale at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-07/search-for-potentially-extinct-kangaroo-river-perch/11769692 [Accessed 21 August 2022]
Kaminskas, S. (2021). Alien pathogens and parasites impacting native freshwater fish of southern Australia: A scientific and historical review. Australian Zoologist 41(4): 696-730.
Lintermans, M., Geyle, H. M., Beatty, S., Brown, C., Ebner, B. C., Freeman, R., Hammer, M. P., Humphreys, W. F., Kennard, M. J. and Kern, P. (2020). Big trouble for little fish: Identifying Australian freshwater fishes in imminent risk of extinction. Pacific Conservation Biology 26(4): 365-377.
Low, Tim and Booth, Carol. (2023). GONE: Australian animals extinct since the 1960s. Invasive Species Council Inc.
https://www.fishingworld.com.au/news/the-search-for-the-perch