Fish in Australia
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Australia has over 5000 described species of fish, a quarter of which are endemic.{{cite web|last1=Bray|first1=Dianne|title=Introduction to Australia's Fishes|url=http://www.fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/content/166|website=Fishes of Australia|accessdate=30 September 2014|archive-date=22 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822031656/http://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/content/166|url-status=dead}} Seafood and aquaculture are major and highly regulated industries, and fishing for marine and freshwater native fish is popular.
Species of freshwater fish
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For its land-size, Australia has a low diversity of native freshwater fish with only 281 described species. This is largely because Australia is a very dry continent with sporadic rainfall and large areas of desert. There is a higher diversity of salt water fish.
The most common freshwater fish are:
Other species include:
- Australian grayling
- Australian smelt
- Climbing galaxias
- Common galaxias
- Eastern freshwater cod
- Eel-tailed catfish
- Estuary perch
- Flathead galaxias
- Golden perch
- Halfbeak/Garfish
- Jardini
- Inanga
- Macquarie perch
- Mary River cod
- Mountain galaxias
- Queensland lungfish
- Rainbowfish
- Retropinnidae
- River blackfish
- Saratoga
- Salamanderfish
- Short-finned eel
- Sleepy cod
- Trout cod
- Two-spined blackfish
- Western carp gudgeon
Marine fish
Abelites
Anlaby's
Abilene's