New Zealand Freshwater Fish

DSC_7097 Pouched lamprey (Geotria australis) freshwater scientists searching a stream for ammocoete larva which live buried in the mud for the first four years or so of their life, before eventually transforming into macropthalmia, and migrating downstream to the sea. Okuti River, Canterbury *

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