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are small and set at about the midpoint of the fish's length, and the dorsal and anal fins are set right back with the dorsal fin slightly ahead of the anal. Caudal fins are rounded with well-developed flanges along the caudal peduncle reaching nearly to the posterior edges of the dorsal and anal fins. Greenish brown in colour, sometimes golden, they are greyish on their ventral surfaces, and marked with irregular darker mottled bands and blotches over the back, sides, and fin bases. Its length is up to 140 mm; commonly it grows to 80 mm.
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Spawning in late winter, the hatched larvae are washed out to sea, spending about 2 to 3 months at sea or in estuaries before returning to fresh water as part of the whitebait migration. Tasmanian mudfish are smaller than other species comprising the whitebait fishery, generally only 30 to
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565:"Neochanna cleaveri"
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309:Importance to humans
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818:Categories
386:References
370:The genus
285:Naracoorte
227:Australian
149:Galaxiidae
67:Endangered
829:Neochanna
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338:aestivate
327:Lifecycle
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300:Habitat
277:Geelong
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201:, 1934)
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599:ISBN
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