Diet Overlap

Neochanna burrowsius (Canterbury mudfish)
Anguilla australis (Shortfin eel)

Common Diet

Paracalliope fluviatilis
Potamopyrgus antipodarum (New Zealand mud snail)

Common Habitat

Australasia
New Zealand
Oceania - Inland waters

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1G. A. Eldon (1979): Food of the Canterbury mudfish, Neochanna burrowsius (Salmoniformes: Galaxiidae), New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 13:2, 255-261
♦ 2Seasonal and size-related changes in the food of the short-finned eel, Anguilla australis in Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand, Patrick A. Ryan, Environmental Biology of Fishes Vol. I5, No. 1, pp. 47-58, 1986
♦ 3Donald J. Jellyman (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, 1-10