Canterbury mudfish
id:
canterbury-mudfish-169-6691861
title:
Canterbury mudfish
text:
The Canterbury mudfish, also known as the kowaro, is found only on the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand. Like other Neochanna species, it is a small, tubular and flexible fish which lacks scales. They are able to survive out of water in damp refuges if its wetland habitat dries out periodically over summer. The first Canterbury mudfish was described by W J Phillipps in 1926, from a specimen sent to him by Mr A. Burrows, a farmer from Oxford, North Canterbury. They were sent to him "alive in a ti
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Species of fish
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury_mudfish
date created:
2006-06-04T09:48:30Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T10:22:28Z
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image:
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