Flinders Ranges Mogurnda Fish
Mogurnda is a member of family Eleotridae- a family of fish that has 150 species and 35 genera.
They are available in freshwaters and salty waters of New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii.
It is called bullies in New Zealand and known as sleepers or gudgeons in New Guinea and Australia.
They are called sleepers since the variety of fishes keeps still in the very bottom of the water to wait around for prey.
As soon as they spot their prey, they eventually catch the prey in an extremely swift movement.
When Mogurndas or gudgeons live in salt water in their larval stage, they are feed by plankton.
Eventually they feed on crustaceans, invertebrates, small fishes, and insects.
They are available in fresh water such as creeks, lakes, and streams.
Rivers with brackish water can be their shelter too.
They are mostly seen along brackish or freshwater and some can be found in seas.
Mogurnda or sleepers are relatively small and have elongated body which length ranges from 3cm to 66 cm.
A number of them have a thin rounded and smooth-edge scale while others have scales that resemble a comb, usually rough in texture.
They've conical teeth.
Some Mogurnda are colorful while others have dark colors such as dark brown.
Female and male Mogurnda are look alike, except when males modify their color during the period of courtship, once they encounter same sex competitor and when they're leading their partner towards the nest for spawning.
Breeding period is dependent on its climate.
Breeding is said to be sluggish in colder regions that mostly happen two times in a year.
They keep the egg in the very bottom of seawater floor.
These fishes stay in salt water for larval stage and finally move to freshwater or brackish water when it aged.
Small Mogurnda is said to have a lifespan of two years.
Flinders Ranges Mogurnda is under the species of Mogurnda Clivicola.
The Mogurnda fishes have found a perfect refuge in its Flinders Rangers accommodation, residing throughout the muddy and rocky spring-fed pools and creeks of Vulkathunha Gammon Ranges National Park such as Bunyeroo, Brachina, Wilpena, Parachilna and Oratunga.
In addition, they thrive in rocky streams along the valleys.
The muddy Barcoo River and Bulloo River are their preferred place too.
The Flinders Ranges Gudgeon fishes have gray spots on its either blue or brown scales.
There is a matching dark orange stripe from its tail through its head.
They have transparent two vertical fins at the back and rounded tail fin.
Male Mogurndas create a different color, having orange spots displayed in the body going to its tail in spawning season that usually happens during summers.
Their length could reaches 6 inches which is considered medium as compared with other species found in other countries.
The climate is Flinders Ranges attraction for the variety's spawning.
The females usually spawn over 20°C that they could lay a maximum of 800 eggs.
The males are the ones safe-guarding the eggs until they hatch in a period of seven days.
Newly hatch Mogurnda are 5mm in length and are fed by recently hatched shrimp.
Recently, the government of the region is attempting to maintain the species since there have been a declining number of the fish in the rivers of Flinders Ranges.
The variety of fishes continues to be one of Flinders Ranges attractions to researchers.
The South Australian Research and Development Institute headed by Bryan Pierce try to supervise the fishes particularly in the Gammon Ranges National Park.
They are available in freshwaters and salty waters of New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii.
It is called bullies in New Zealand and known as sleepers or gudgeons in New Guinea and Australia.
They are called sleepers since the variety of fishes keeps still in the very bottom of the water to wait around for prey.
As soon as they spot their prey, they eventually catch the prey in an extremely swift movement.
When Mogurndas or gudgeons live in salt water in their larval stage, they are feed by plankton.
Eventually they feed on crustaceans, invertebrates, small fishes, and insects.
They are available in fresh water such as creeks, lakes, and streams.
Rivers with brackish water can be their shelter too.
They are mostly seen along brackish or freshwater and some can be found in seas.
Mogurnda or sleepers are relatively small and have elongated body which length ranges from 3cm to 66 cm.
A number of them have a thin rounded and smooth-edge scale while others have scales that resemble a comb, usually rough in texture.
They've conical teeth.
Some Mogurnda are colorful while others have dark colors such as dark brown.
Female and male Mogurnda are look alike, except when males modify their color during the period of courtship, once they encounter same sex competitor and when they're leading their partner towards the nest for spawning.
Breeding period is dependent on its climate.
Breeding is said to be sluggish in colder regions that mostly happen two times in a year.
They keep the egg in the very bottom of seawater floor.
These fishes stay in salt water for larval stage and finally move to freshwater or brackish water when it aged.
Small Mogurnda is said to have a lifespan of two years.
Flinders Ranges Mogurnda is under the species of Mogurnda Clivicola.
The Mogurnda fishes have found a perfect refuge in its Flinders Rangers accommodation, residing throughout the muddy and rocky spring-fed pools and creeks of Vulkathunha Gammon Ranges National Park such as Bunyeroo, Brachina, Wilpena, Parachilna and Oratunga.
In addition, they thrive in rocky streams along the valleys.
The muddy Barcoo River and Bulloo River are their preferred place too.
The Flinders Ranges Gudgeon fishes have gray spots on its either blue or brown scales.
There is a matching dark orange stripe from its tail through its head.
They have transparent two vertical fins at the back and rounded tail fin.
Male Mogurndas create a different color, having orange spots displayed in the body going to its tail in spawning season that usually happens during summers.
Their length could reaches 6 inches which is considered medium as compared with other species found in other countries.
The climate is Flinders Ranges attraction for the variety's spawning.
The females usually spawn over 20°C that they could lay a maximum of 800 eggs.
The males are the ones safe-guarding the eggs until they hatch in a period of seven days.
Newly hatch Mogurnda are 5mm in length and are fed by recently hatched shrimp.
Recently, the government of the region is attempting to maintain the species since there have been a declining number of the fish in the rivers of Flinders Ranges.
The variety of fishes continues to be one of Flinders Ranges attractions to researchers.
The South Australian Research and Development Institute headed by Bryan Pierce try to supervise the fishes particularly in the Gammon Ranges National Park.
