Sydney’s 90m-year-old climbing galaxias fish may have been wiped out by school building works
by Peter Hannam from World news | The Guardian on (#6JHGN)
The species can climb waterfalls and reaches back to Gondwanaland - but there are fears polluted runoff has proven fatal
A miracle fish" may have been snuffed out in its Sydney habitat by bungled construction work at a nearby government high school, local environmentalists fear.
The climbing galaxias (Galaxias brevipinnis) belongs to a species line reaching back to Gondwanaland. It was only identified in the Manly Dam region in Sydney's north - the fish's most northerly known location in Australia - in 1998.
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