Cardross Lakes

{{Other uses|Cardross (disambiguation)}}

{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}

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| caption = Cardross Lakes, September 2008

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| location = Mallee, Victoria

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The Cardross Lakes are an irrigation drainage basin system located approximately {{convert|15|km}} south-west of Mildura, in the Mallee region of Victoria, Australia. The lakes are notable for being the only known occurrence within Victoria of the Southern Purple Spotted Gudgeon (Mogurnda adspersa), discovered in 1995,[http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/2001/publications/theme-reports/water/water03-4d.html Inland Waters Theme Report] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080727082300/http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/2001/publications/theme-reports/water/water03-4d.html |date=27 July 2008 }} Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved 4 April 2008 believed to be extinct in Victoria since the 1930s.{{cite web |url=http://www.nativefish.asn.au/home/page/Southern-Purple-Spotted-Gudgeon |accessdate=16 December 2018 | publisher=Native Fish Australia |title=Southern purple spotted gudgeon}} The Murray hardyhead (Craterocephalus fluviatilis) can be found in the Cardross Basin.[http://www.riverspace.com.au/item/protecting-the-murray-hardyhead/ "Protecting the Murray Hardyhead"], Riverspace, 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2017.