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Maccullochella ikei (Clarence river cod; East coast cod; Eastern cod; Eastern freshwater cod; Estuary cod)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Eastern freshwater cod (Maccullochella ikei), also known as eastern cod or Clarence River cod, are a large predatory freshwater fish of the Maccullochella genus and the Percichthyidae family, that occur in the coastal Clarence River system of north-eastern New South Wales. Eastern freshwater cod are closely related to the Murray cod of the Murray-Darling River system, and are considered an icon of the Clarence River system.
View Wikipedia Record: Maccullochella ikei

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Maccullochella ikei

Prey / Diet

Hemicordulia intermedia (Yellow-spotted Emerald)[1]
Mus musculus (house mouse)[1]
Paratya australiensis (Australian Paratya)[1]
Tachaea caridophaga[1]
Tandanus tandanus (Tandan catfish)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Macroderma gigas (Australian false vampire bat)1
Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Platypus)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Chilodonella hexasticha[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Dietary habits of a large, long-lived endangered Australian percichthyid, the eastern freshwater cod Maccullochella ikei, Gavin L. Butler, Ian J. Wooden, Endang Species Res 16: 199–209, 2012
♦ 2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0