Hypseleotris klunzingeri (Western Carp Gudgeon)
Hypseleotris klunzingeri (Western Carp Gudgeon)
Family: Eleotridae (Gudgeon)
Status: Native
Size: Grows to maximum 4.5cm.
Description: A slender pale grey to tan gudgeon, with a semi-translucent silvery body. Dark narrow bars on rear and fins; indistinct dark spot near tail.
Habitat: Freshwater rivers and stream in slow-flowing, sometimes turbid, heavily-weeded areas to 3 m deep.
Location: Within the CNM region larger water bodies and rivers in the Murrumbidgee Catchment.
Hypseleotris klunzingeri is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands
Species information
- Hypseleotris klunzingeri Scientific name
- Western Carp Gudgeon Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 536m to 586m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
