Australian grayling

Prototroctes maraena

Long gut aids plants

Gray
Temperate
Coastal
Transcontinental
Oceania
Elongated
Medium
Temperate fish

Australian grayling is known around Oceania as a freshwater fish; It occurs in estuaries and brackish water, and records give a maximum length of 33 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Smelts and Allies
Family: Retropinnidae
Genus: Prototroctes
Maximum length: 33 cm
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Oceania: coastal drainages of southeastern Australia from the Grose River near Sydney southward and westward to the eastern part of South Australia, including Tasmania and King Island in Bass Strait.
Conservation status: VUVulnerable

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