An accessory lateral line in some New Zealand and Australian galaxiids (Teleostei: Galaxiidae)

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 217-224

  McDowall, R M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Behavior; Diet, lateral line; Galaxiidae

Indexed keywords

GALAXIIDAE; TELEOSTEI;

DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOUR; LATERAL LINE; NEUROMAST;

AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0031427966     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.1997.tb00164.x     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Armstrong, N. 1993. Re-discovering Galaxias fuscus. Fishes of Sahul 7: 328-329.
2. Begle, D.P. 1991. Relationships of the osmeroid fishes and the use of reductive characters in phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Zoology 40: 33-53.
3. Beumer, J.P. 1979. Feeding and movement of Anguilla aus trails and A. reinhardtii in Macleods Morass, Victoria, Australia. Journal of Fish Biology 14: 573-592.
4. Bleckmann, H. 1986. The role of the lateral line in fish behaviour. In: Pitcher, T.J., ed.. The behaviour of teleost fishes. Beckenham, Croom Helm, pp. 177-202.
5. Bone, Q., & Marshall, N.B. 1982. Biology of fishes. Blackie, Glasgow.
6. Bonnett, M.L., Sagar, P.M., & Docherty, C.R. 1989. Diets of alpine galaxias (Galaxias paucispondylus Stokell) and longjawed galaxias (G. prognathus Stokell) in a South Island, New Zealand, high country stream. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 23: 453-458.
7. Burnet, A.M.R. 1952. Studies on the ecology of the New Zealand long-finned eel, Anguilla dieffenbachii Gray. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 3: 32-63.
8. Butcher, A.D. 1945. The food of indigenous and non-indigenous freshwater fish in Victoria, with special reference to trout. Victoria Fish and Game Department Fisheries Pamphlet 2: 1-48.
9. Cadwallader, P.L. 1975a. The food of the New Zealand common river galaxias, Galaxias vulgaris Stokell (Pisces: Salmoniformes). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 26: 15-30.
10. Cadwallader, P.L. 1975b. Relationship between brain morphology and ecology in New Zealand Galaxiidae, particularly Galaxias vulgaris (Pisces: Salmoniformes). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 2: 35-43.
11. Cadwallader, P.L. 1975c. Distribution and ecology of the Canterbury mudfish, Neochaima burrowsius (Phillipps) (Salmoniformes: Galaxiidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 5: 21-30.
12. Cadwallader, P.L., Eden, A.K., and Hook, R.A. 1980. The role of streamside vegetation as a food source for Galaxias olidus Gunther (Pisces: Galaxiidae). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 31: 257-262.
13. Clarke, FE. 1899. Notes on New Zealand Galaxiidae, more especially those of western slopes: with descriptions of new species. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 32: 78-91
14. Closs, G.P. 1994. Feeding of Galaxias olidus (Gunther) (Pisces: Galaxiidae) in an intermittent Australian stream. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 45: 227-232.
15. Craig, J.F. 1987. The biology of perch and related fish. Croom Helm, Beckenham. 333 pp.
16. Dijkgraaf, S. 1962. The functioning and significance of the lateral-line organs. Biological Reviews 38: 51-105.
17. Eldon, G.A. 1978. The life history of Neochanna apoda Günther (Pisces: Galaxiidae). New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Fisheries Research Bulletin 19: 1-44.
18. Eldon, G.A. 1979. Food of the Canterbury mudfish, Neochana burrowsius (Salmoniformes: Galaxiidae). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 13: 255-261.
19. Falla, R.A. & Stokell, G. 1945. Investigation of the stomach contents of New Zealand freshwater shags. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 74: 320-331.
20. Flock, A. 1971. The lateral line organ mechanoreceptors. In: Hoar W.S. & Randall D.J., ed. Fish physiology (Vol. 5: Sensory systems and electric organs). New York: Academic Press, pp. 241-262.
21. Fulton, W. 1982. Observations on the ecology of four species of the genus Paragalaxias (Pisces: Galaxiidae) from Tasmania. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33: 999-1016.
22. Gearing, J.W., Gearing, P.J., Rudnick, D.T., Requeio, A.G., & Hitchins, M.J. 1984. Isotopic variability of organic carbon in a phytoplankton-based temperate estuary. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 48: 1089-1098.
23. Glova, G.J., & Sagar, P.M. 1989a. Prey selection by Galaxias vulgaris in the Hawkins River, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 23: 153-161.
24. Glova, G.J. & Sagar, P.M. 1989b. Feeding in a nocturnally active fish, Galaxias brevipinnis, in a New Zealand stream. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 40: 231-240.
25. Glova, G.J. & Sagar, P.M. 1991. Dietary and spatial overlap between stream populations of a native and two introduced fish species in New Zealand. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 42: 423-433.
26. Glova, G.J., & Sagar, P.M. 1993. A further assessment of trophic and spatial inter-relations of galaxiids and salmonids in New Zealand. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 2: 132-140.
27. Glova, G.J., Sagar, P.M. & Docherty, C.R. 1987. Diel feeding periodicity of torrentfish (Cheimarrichthys fosteri) in two braided rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 21: 555-561.
28. Haast, J. von. 1873. Notes on some undescribed fishes of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 5: 272-278.
29. Halstead, M.D.B. 1994. Detection and location of prey by the New Zealand freshwater galaxiid, Galaxias fasciatus (Pisces: Salmoniformes). M.Sc. thesis, University of Auckland, Auckland. 115 pp.
30. Hamr, P. 1992. Conservation of Galaxias pedderensis: report to the endangered species unit, ANPWS. Tasmanian Inland Fisheries Commission Occasional Report 92-01: 1-77.
31. Henry, R. 1903. The habits of the flightless birds of New Zealand, with notes on other New Zealand birds. Wellington, Government Printer.
32. Hopkins, C.L. 1971. Life history of Galaxias divergens (Salmonoidea: Galaxiidae). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5: 41-57.
33. Hutton, F.W. 1902. On a marine Galaxias from the Auckland Islands. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 34: 198-199.
34. Janssen, J, & Corcoran, J. 1993. Lateral line stimuli can override vision to determine sunfish strike trajectory. Journal of Experimental Biology 176: 299-305.
35. Jellyman, D.J. 1979. Observations on the biology of the giant kokopu, Galaxias argenteus (Gmelin, 1789). Mauri Ora 7: 53-61.
36. Jellyman, D.J. 1989. Diet of two species of freshwater eel (Anguilla spp.) in Lake Pounui, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 23: 1-10.
37. Lane, E.B. and Whitear, M. 1982. Sensory structures at the surface of fish skin. II. Lateralis system. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London 76: 19-28.
38. Lynch, D.D. 1972. Lake Crescent's monster brown trout. Report of the Tasmanian Inland Fisheries Commission 1972: 8-9.
39. McDowall, R.M. 1968. Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns), the New Zealand whitebait. New Zealand Marine Department Fisheries Research Bulletin 2: 1-84.
40. McDowall, R.M. 1969. Relationships of galaxioid fishes, with a further discussion of salmoniform classification. Copeia 1969: 796-824.
41. McDowall, R.M. 1970. The galaxiid fishes of New Zealand. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 139: 341-431.
42. McDowall, R.M. 1990. New Zealand freshwater fishes: a natural history and guide. Auckland,Heinemann Reed. 553 pp.
43. McDowall, R.M. in press. Affinities, generic classification and biogeography of the Australian and New Zealand mudfishes (Salmoniformes: Galaxiidae). Records of the Australian Museum
44. McDowall, R.M. & Frankenberg, R.S. 1981. The galaxiid fishes of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 33: 433-605.
45. McDowall, R.M., Main, M.R., West, D.W. & Lyon, G.L. 1996. Terrestrial and benthic foods in the diet of the shortjawed kokopu, Galaxias postvectis Clarke (Teleostei: Galaxiidae). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 30: 257-269.
46. Main, M.R. 1988. Factors influencing the distribution of kokopu and koaro (Pisces: Galaxiidae). MSc thesis, University of Canterbury, Christchurch. 127 pp.
47. Main, M.R., & Lyon, G.L. 1988. Contributions of terrestrial prey to the diet of the banded kokopu (Galaxias fasciatus) in South Westland, New Zealand. Verhandlungen de Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 23: 1785-1789.
48. Main, M.R. & Winterbourn, M.J. 1987. Diet and feeding of koaro (Galaxias brevipinnis) in forested South Westland streams. Mauri Ora 14: 77-86.
49. Meredyth-Young, J. & Pullan, S.C. 1977. Fisheries survey of Lake Chalice, Marlborough Acclimatisation District, South Island. N.Z. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Fisheries Technical Report 150: 1-21.
50. Montgomery, J.S., Coombs, S., & Halstead, M. 1995. Biology of the mechanosensory lateral line in fishes. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 5: 399-416.
51. Montgomery, J.S. & Milton, R.C. 1993. Use of the lateral line for feeding in the torrentfish (Cheimarrichthys fosteri). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 20: 121-125.
52. Nelson, J.S. 1994. Fishes of the world (3rd ed.). New York, Wiley. 600 pp.
53. Pen, L.J. & Potter, I.C. 1991. Biology of the western minnow, Galaxias occidentalis Ogilby (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) in a southwestern Australian river. II. Size and age composition, growth and diet. Hydrobiologia 211: 89-100.
54. Rounick, J.S. & Hicks, B.J. 1985. The stable carbon isotope rations of fish and their invertebrate prey in four New Zealand rivers. Freshwater Biology 15: 207-214.
55. Rounick, J.S. & Winterbourn, M.J. 1986. Stable carbon isotopes and carbon flow in ecosystems. Bioscience 36: 171-177.
56. Rowe, D.K., & Chisnall, B.L. 1995. Conservation status of dwarf inanga (Galaxias gracilis) and recommendations for its future management. NIWA Science and Technology Series 24: 1-55.
57. Sagar, P.M. & Eldon, G.A. 1983. Food and feeding of small fish in the Rakaia River, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 17: 213-226.
58. Sanger, A.C. 1993. The Swan galaxias recovery plan: management phase. Hobart, Australia: Inland Fisheries Commission. 23 pp.
59. Sanger, A.C., & Fulton, W. 1991. Conservation of endangered species of Tasmanian freshwater fish. Tasmanian Inland Fisheries Commission Occasional Report 91-01: 1-29.
60. Song, J. & Northcutt, R.G. 1991. The primary projections of the lateral-line nerves of the Florida gar, Lepisosteus platyrhincus. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 37: 38-63.
61. Thompson, F.V. 1986. Notes on the black mudfish Neochanna diversus (Stokell). Annual Report of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society 1986: 32-38.
62. Tilzey, R.D.J. 1976. Observations on interactions between indigenous Galaxiidae and introduced Salmonidae in the Lake Eucumbene catchment, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 27: 551-564.
63. Walford, F. 1928. The mountain minnow. Australian Museum Magazine 3: 274-277.
64. West, D.W. 1989. The ecology of native and introduced fish in some Waikato streams. MSc Thesis, University of Waikato, Hamilton. 153 pp.
65. Whitley, G.P. 1928. Galaxias as a flycatcher. Australian Naturalist 7: 59-60.
66. Williams, D.M. 1975. Aspects of the ecology of three sympatric Galaxias species in an Otway stream. B.Sc hons. thesis, Monash University, Melbourne. 78 pp.