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Freshwater fish and crayfish

 

Research leaders:

Howard Gill and David Morgan
Research team:

Steve Beatty and Drew Rowland


Key research

NEW!

ABC Catalyst programme on swordfish survival in the Kimberley

Fishes of the Fitzroy River and their Walmajarri names (poster)

Fishes of the Fitzroy River and their Nyikina names (poster)

Fishes of the Fitzroy River and their Gooniyandi names (poster)

Fishes of the Fitzroy River and their Bunuba names (poster)

 

New PDF files on specific projects:

Fish fauna of Margaret River (0.7mb)

Fish and crayfish migrations in the Blackwood River - influence of surface and groundwater (5mb)

Goldfish control programme report (2mb)

Fishes of the King Edward and Carson Rivers (4.3mb)

Donnelly River - fish fauna (1.5mb)

One-spot Libearer control - Bull Creek fish enhancement (0.7mb)

Influence of the Camballin Barrage on fish in the Fitzroy River, Western Australia (1mb)

Fish and freshwater crayfish of Cape Naturaliste streams and Wilyabrup Brook (1.9mb)

Fish and freshwater crayfish fauna of the Brunswick and Preston Rivers (1.9mb)

Lake Richmond fish and crayfish (0.5mb)

Dependence on the Yarragadee Aquifer (fish and crayfish) (4.8mb)

Freshwater Sawfish project (2.6mb)

Fitzroy River fishes (including the Bunuba, Gooniyandi, Ngarinyin, Nyikina and Walmajarri names) (7mb)

Northern River Shark in the Kimberley (0.6mb)

Lake Kununurra Fishway Report (1.7mb)

Freshwater and estuarine elasmobranchs of northern Australia (9.4mb)

Gingin Brook - fishway requirements (1.1mb)

Vasse River fish fauna and goldfish project (1.5mb)

Goldfish control in the Vasse River (0.6mb)

Bancell Brook (Harvey River) fish project (1.6mb)

Margaret River fish fauna (0.75mb)

Margaret River fishway report (3.5mb)

Fish fauna of Ellen, Cowaramup and Gunyulgup Brooks (Cape to Cape) (1.4mb)

Hotham River fishway project (1.7mb)

Goodga River Fishway - saving the trout minnow (Galaxias truttaceus) (2 mb)


Community posters - PDF files:

Feral fishes of Western Australia

Freshwater sawfish in the Fitzroy River


Kimberley Drainage Division

Sawfish in the Fitzroy River

Fishes of the Fitzroy River and their Walmajarri names

Fishes of the Fitzroy River and their Nyikina names

Fishes of the Fitzroy River and their Gooniyandi names

Fishes of the Fitzroy River and their Bunuba names

Lake Kununurra fishes

 

Pilbara (Indian Ocean) Drainage Division

Fishes of the Murchison River

 

South-western Australia (South-west Coast Drainage Division)

Freshwater fishes of south-western Australia(1)

Freshwater fishes of south-western Australia(2)

Salinity in the Blackwood River

Margaret River fish fauna

Hotham River fishes

Bancell Brook (Harvey River) freshwater fish and crayfish

Fish and crayfish fauna of Ellen Brook

Fish stocking in Sandown Park wetlands (City of Swan)

Fish stocking of Booyeembara Wetland (City of Fremantle)

 

Recent related publications

A - Z listing

Allen, M., Morgan, D.L. and Gill, H.S. 2005. Distribution, zoogeography and biology of Craterocephalus cuneiceps Whitley, an atherinid endemic to the Indian Ocean (Pilbara) Drainage Division of Western Australia. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 14: 209-224.
Beatty, S.J. 2006. The diet and trophic positions of translocated, sympatric populations of Cherax destructor and Cherax cainii in the Hutt River, Western Australia: evidence of resource overlap. Marine and Freshwater Research 57: 825-835. http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/126/paper/MF05221.htm
Beatty, S.J., Morgan, D.L. and Gill, H.S. 2005. Role of life history strategy in the colonisation of Western Australian aquatic systems by the introduced crayfish Cherax destructor Clark, 1936. Hydrobiologia 549: 219-237.
Beatty, S.J., Morgan, D.L. and Gill, H.S. 2004. Biology of a translocated population of the large freshwater crayfish, Cherax cainii (Austin & Ryan, 2002) in a Western Australian river. Crustaceana 77(11): 1329-1351.
Beatty, S., Molony, B., Rhodes, M. and Morgan, D. 2003. A methodology to mitigate the negative impacts of dam refurbishment on fish and crayfish values in a south-western Australian reservoir. Ecological Management and Restoration 4: 147-149.
Chapman, A., Hobbs, R.P., Morgan, D.L., Gill, H.S. 2006. Helminth parasitism of Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns 1842) in southwestern Australia. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 15: 559-564.
Chapman, A, Morgan, D.L., Beatty, S.J and Gill, H.S. 2006. Variation in life history of land-locked lacustrine and riverine populations of Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns 1842) in Western Australia. Environmental Biology of Fishes 77: 21-37.
Doupé, R.G., Morgan, D.L., Gill, H.S. and Rowland, A.J. 2004. Introduction of redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus to Lake Kununurra, Ord River, Western Australia: prospects for a 'yabby' in the Kimberley. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 87: 187-191. Reproduced with the permission of the Royal Society of WA.
Gill, H.S. and Morgan, D.L. 2003. Ontogenetic changes in the diet of Galaxiella nigrostriata (Shipway, 1953) (Galaxiidae) and Lepidogalaxias salamandroides Mees, 1961 (Lepidogalaxiidae). Ecology of Freshwater Fish 12: 151-158.
Gill, H.S. and Morgan, D.L. 1999. Larval development in the salamanderfish, Lepidogalaxias salamandroides. Copeia 1999: 219-224.
Gill, H.S. and Morgan, D.L. 1998. Larval development of Nannatherina balstoni Regan (Nannopercidae), with a description of ontogenetic changes in diet. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 27: 1-9.
Gill, H.S. and Morgan, D.L. 1997. Threatened fishes of the world: Galaxiella munda McDowall, 1978 (Galaxiidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 49: 174.
Gill, H.S. and Morgan, D.L. 1996. Threatened fishes of the world: Galaxiella nigrostriata (Shipway, 1953)(Galaxiidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 47: 344.
Gill, H.S., Hambleton, S.J. and Morgan, D.L. 1999. Is Gambusia holbrooki a major threat to the native freshwater fishes of south-western Australia? In Seret, B. and Sire, J.-Y., (eds). Proceedings 5th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (Noumea, 3-8 November 1997). pp. 79-87. Paris: Societe Francaise d'Ichtyologie and Institut de Recherche pour le Development.
Gill, H.S., Morgan, D.L., Doupé, R.G. and Rowland, A.J. 2006. The fishes of Lake Kununurra, a highly regulated section of the Ord River in northern Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 23: 1-6.
Morgan, D.L. 2003. Distribution and biology of Galaxias truttaceus (Galaxiidae) in south-western Australia, including first evidence of parasitism of fishes in Western Australia by Ligula intestinalis. Environmental Biology of Fishes 66: 155-167.
Morgan, D.L. and Beatty, S.J. 2006. Use of a vertical-slot fishway by galaxiids in Western Australila. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 15: 500-509.
Morgan, D.L. and Gill, H.S. 2000. Fish associations within the different inland habitats of lower south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 20: 31-37.
Morgan, D.L. and Gill, H.S. 2001. The green swordtail Xiphophorus helleri Heckel (Poeciliidae): another aquarium fish established in the wild in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 20: 349-352.

Morgan, D.L. and Gill, H.S. 2006. Osteology of the first dorsal fin in two terapontids, Leiopotherapon unicolor (Günther, 1859) and Amniataba caudavittata (Richardson, 1845), from Western Australia: evidence for hybridisation? Records of the Western Australian Museum 23: 133-144.
Morgan, D.L., Gill, H.S. and Potter, I.C. 2000. Age composition, growth and reproductive biology of the salamanderfish Lepidogalaxias salamandroides: a re-examination. Environmental Biology of Fishes 57: 191-204.
Morgan, D.L., Gill, H.S. and Potter, I.C. 1998. Distribution, identification and biology of freshwater fishes in south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement No. 56: 97 pp.
Morgan, D.L., Gill, H.S. and Potter, I.C. 1995. Life cycle, growth and diet of Balston's pygmy perch in its natural habitat of acidic pools. Journal of Fish Biology 47: 808-825.
Morgan, D.L., Thorburn. D.C. and Gill, H.S. 2003. Salinization of south-western Western Australian rivers and the implications for the inland fish fauna - the Blackwood River, a case study. Pacific Conservation Biology 9: 161-171.
Morgan, D.L., Chapman, A., Beatty, S.J. and Gill, H.S. 2006. Distribution of the spotted minnow (Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns, 1842)) (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) in Western Australia including range extensions and sympatric species. Records of the Western Australian Museum 23: 7-11.
Morgan, D., Allen, M., Bedford, P. and Horstman, M. 2004. Fish fauna of the Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia - including the Bunuba, Gooniyandi, Ngarinyin, Nyikina and Walmajarri Aboriginal names. Records of the Western Australian Museum 22: 147-161.
Morgan, D.L., Rowland, A.J., Gill, H.S. and Doupé, R.G. 2004. The implications of introducing a large piscivore (Lates calcarifer) into a regulated northern Australian river (Lake Kununurra, Western Australia). Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management 9: 181-193. (0.4mb pdf)
This is an electronic version of an article published in Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of [name of journal], is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at [journal url] or www.blackwell-synergy.com
Thorburn, D.C. and Morgan, D.L. 2005. Threatened fishes of the world: Glyphis sp. C (Carcharhinidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 73: 140.
Thorburn, D.C. and Morgan, D.L. 2005. Threatened fishes of the world: Pristis microdon (Pristidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 72: 465-466.
Trayler, K.M., Davis, J.A., Horwitz, P. and Morgan, D.L. 1997. Aquatic fauna of the Warren Bioregion, south-west Western Australia: Does reservation guarantee preservation? Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 79: 281-291.

Other refereed publications
Beatty, S. and Morgan, D. 2002. Simple fishways. Water and Rivers Commission and Department of Fisheries Water Notes For Rivers Management WN26.

Technical reports
Bamford, M., Morgan, D. and Gill, H. 1998. The freshwater fish fauna of Bennett Brook. Report to the Bennett Brook Catchment Group.
Beatty, S. and Morgan, D. 2006. Management of aquatic fauna during refurbishment of Phillips Creek Reservoir. Murdoch University, Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research report to the Water Corporation of Western Australia.
Beatty, S. and Morgan, D. 2004. Assessing the requirement for fishways on Gingin Brook. Report to the Gingin Land Conservation District Committee.
Beatty, S. and Morgan, D. 2000. The polyculture of western pygmy perch Edelia vittata with marron Cherax tenuimanus at the ALCOA Willowdale marron farm. Report to ALCOA.
Beatty, S., Morgan, D. and Gill, H. 2006. The yabbie in Western Australia: An invasion from the east. Australian Society for Fish Biology 2006 Conference, Hobart, Tasmania.
Beatty, S., Morgan, D. and Gill, H. 2003. Fish resource survey of Churchman Brook Reservoir. Report to the Water Corporation of Western Australia.
Beatty, S., Morgan, D. and Gill, H. 2003. Fish resource survey of Phillips Creek Reservoir. Report to the Water Corporation of Western Australia.
Beatty, S., Morgan, D. and Tay, M. 2006. Management of aquatic fauna during the refurbishment of Churchman Brook Reservoir. Murdoch University, Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research report to the Water Corporation of Western Australia.
Beatty, S.J., McAleer, F.J., Morgan, D.L., Koenders, A. and Horwitz, P.H.J. (2006). Influence of surface and groundwater on the fish and crayfish fauna of the Blackwood River. Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research (Murdoch University), Centre for Ecosystem Management (Edith Cowan University) report to Department of Water and South West Catchments Council.
Beatty, S., Morgan, D., Jury, C. and Mitchell, J. 2006. Fish and freshwater crayfish in streams in the Cape Naturaliste region and Wilyabrup Brook. Report to the Cape to Capes Catchment Group and GeoCatch.
Doupé, R., Morgan, D., Gill, H., Rowland, A. and Annandale, D. 2003. Ecological and social issues concerning the establishment of a recreational barramundi fishery in Lake Kununurra. Report to the Lake Kununurra Fish Stock Enhancement Committee and Ord Land and Water Inc.
Gill, H.S. 1995. Fish of the AMC Wetlands. RGC Mineral Sands, Capel.
Gill, H.S. and Morgan, D.L. 1997. Our unique freshwater fishes. Newsplash, Underwater World Perth Newsletter, 7: 1-2.
Gill, H.S., Morgan, D.L., Doupé, R.G. and Rowland, A.J. 2006. The fishes of Lake Kununurra, a highly regulated section of the Ord River in northern Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 23: 1-6.
Hale, J., McGuire, M., Hambleton, S., Morgan, D., Davis, J., Gill, H. and Paling, E. 2000. Water quality, aquatic macroinvertebrate and fish monitoring of the Worsley Freshwater Lake and Brunswick River catchment (March to December 1999). Report to Worsley Alumina Pty Ltd.
Hambleton, S., Gill, H., Morgan, D. and Potter, I. 1996. Interactions of the introduced mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) with native fish species in the RGC Wetlands, Capel, Western Australia. Technical Report No. 33. Capel: RGC Mineral Sands Ltd.
Hambleton, S., Gill, H., Morgan, D. and Potter, I. 1996. The distribution of freshwater fish in the RGC Wetlands, Capel, Western Australia. Technical Report No. 34. Capel: RGC Mineral Sands Ltd.
McAleer, F.J., Morgan, D.L. and Gill, H.S. 2006. Larval development and ontogenetic changes in the diet of the trout minnow (Galaxias truttaceus) in south-western Australia. Australian Society for Fish Biology 2006 Conference, Hobart, Tasmania.
Molony, B., Beatty, S. and Morgan, D. 2003. Fish survey of Bottle Creek Reservoir. Report to the Water Corporation of Western Australia.
Morgan, D.L. 2006. Fishes of the King Edward River, Kimberley, Western Australia. Australian Society for Fish Biology 2006 Conference, Hobart, Tasmania.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2006. Fish fauna of the Donnelly River, Western Australia. Report for Southern Forests Landcare.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2006. Re-establishment of native freshwater fishes in Bull Creek. Report to Melville City Council.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2006. Fish and freshwater crayfish communities of the Brunswick and Preston Rivers. Report to the Leschenault Catchment Council.
Morgan, D.L. and Beatty, S.J. 2006. Overview of the Goldfish Control Programme in the Vasse River, Western Australia: 2004-2006. Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research (Murdoch University) report to Geocatch.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2005. Fish and crayfish fauna of Ellen Brook, Cowaramup Brook and Gunyulgup Brook in the Cape to Cape Region of Western Australia. Report to Ribbons of Blue/Waterwatch WA.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2004. Fish fauna of the Vasse River and the colonisation by feral goldfish (Carrassius auratus). Report to Fishcare WA and Geocatch.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2004. Fish utilisation of the Goodga River Fishway conserving the Western Australian trout minnow (Galaxias truttaceus). Report to Fisheries Western Australia.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2004. The aquatic macrofauna of Pinwernying Dam (Katanning). Report to the Water Corporation of Western Australia.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2004. Margaret River Fishway. Report to the Margaret River Regional Environment Centre.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2004. Monitoring the Lion's Weir Fishway Hotham River, Western Australia. Report to the Department of Environment, Government of Western Australia.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2003. Fish fauna of the Hotham River (including the impact of the Lion's Weir on fish migration). Report to the Water and Rivers Commission of Western Australia and Boddington Rivers Action Group.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2003. Fish fauna of Margaret River Western Australia. Report to the Margaret River Regional Environment Centre.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2003. Freshwater fishes of the Walpole River and impact of the weir to fish and lamprey migrations. Report to Fisheries Western Australia.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2003. Fish and decapod fauna of Bancell Brook (Harvey River) and the impacts of irrigation slot boards on migrations. Report to the Southern Peel Partnership Landcare Group.
Morgan, D.L. and Gill, H.S. 1996. The effect of Big Brook dam during drought on the fish communities of the Lefroy and Big Brooks. Unpublished Report to the Water and Rivers Commission of Western Australia.
Morgan, D.L. and Sarre, G.A. 1995. The freshwater fish fauna of the Bickley Brook Reservoir. Report to the Water Authority of Western Australia
Morgan, D., Gill, H. and Beatty, S. 2003. Fish stock enhancement of Lake Booyeembarra. Report to the Fremante City Council.
Morgan, D. and Beatty, S. 2000. Breeding of western pygmy perch Edelia vittata. Report to the Department of Fisheries Western Australia.
Morgan, D., Gill, H. and Cole, N. 2000. The fish fauna of the Moore River catchment. Report to the Water and Rivers Commission of Western Australia.
Morgan, D.L., Gill, H.S. and Potter, I.C. 1996. The distribution of freshwater fish in the south-western corner of Western Australia. Water Resource Technical Series, Water and Rivers Commission Report WRT4.
Morgan, D.L., Gill, H.S. and Potter, I.C. 1996. Supplement to the distribution of freshwater fish in the south-western corner of Western Australia (Walpole to Albany). Report to the Water and Rivers Commission.
Morgan, D.L., Gill, H.S. and Potter, I.C. 1995. The distribution of freshwater fish in the south-western corner of Western Australia (Busselton to Walpole). Report to the Water Authority of Western Australia.
Morgan, D.L., Potter, I.C. and Gill, H.S. 1995. The freshwater fish fauna of the pools of the south branch of the Collie River, during a period of extremely low water levels. Report to the Water Authority of Western Australia.
Morgan, D., Thorburn, D. and Gill, H. 2000. The distribution and habitat associations of fish in the Blackwood River catchment. Report to the Blackwood Basin Group.
Morgan, D., Allen, M., Bedford, P. and Horstman, M. 2002. Inland fish fauna of the Fitzroy River Western Australia (including the Bunuba, Gooniyandi, Ngarinyin, Nyikina and Walmajarri names). Report to the Natural Heritage Trust. December 2002. Project Number 003123.
Morgan, D.L., Chapman, A., Beatty, S.J. and Gill, H.S. 2006. Distribution of the spotted minnow (Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns, 1842)) (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) in Western Australia including range extensions and sympatric species. Records of the Western Australian Museum 23: 7-11.
Morgan, D., Gill, H., Allen, M. and Maddern, M. 2003. Distribution and biology of fish in inland waters of the Pilbara (Indian Ocean) Drainage Division. Report to the Natural Heritage Trust. March 2003. Project Number 003026.
Morgan, D., Hambleton, S., Gill, H. and Sarre, G. 2001. The introduction of golden perch, Murray cod and Australian bass for the purposes of recreational fishing, aquaculture and domestic stocking. Fisheries WA Discussion Paper.
Morgan, D., Beatty, S., Gill, H., Thorburn, D. and Rowland, A. 2004. Assessment of groundwater discharge from the Yarragadee Aquifer on the fish and decapod fauna of Rosa Brook. Report to the Water Corporation of Western Australia.
Morgan, D., Cheinmora, D., Charles, A., Nulgit, P. and Kimberley Language Resource Centre. 2006. Fishes of the King Edward and Carson Rivers with their Belaa and Ngarinyin names. Murdoch University, Kimberley Language Resource Centre, Land and Water Australia Project No. UMU22.
Morrissy, N., Hambleton, S., Gill, H. and Morgan, D. 2000. The translocation of brown trout (Salmo trutta) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) into and within Western Australia. Fisheries Management Paper No. 156.
Thorburn, D., Morgan, D., Gill, H., Johnson, M., Wallace-Smith, H., Vigilante, T., Croft, I. and Fenton, J. 2004. Biology and cultural significance of the freshwater sawfish (Pristis microdon) in the Fitzroy River Kimberley, Western Australia. Report to the Threatened Species Network
Thorburn, D.C., Morgan, D.L., Rowland, A.J. and Gill, H.S. 2004. Elasmobranchs in the Fitzroy River, Western Australia. Report to the Natural Heritage Trust.
Thorburn, D.C., Morgan, D.L., Rowland, A.J. and Gill, H.S. 2004. The northern river shark (Glyphis sp. C) in Western Australia. Report to the Natural Heritage Trust.
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