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Macleay's Glassfish

Reference

IB3402

Category

Fishes

Family Name

Glassfishes - AMBASSIDAE

Common Name

Macleay's Glassfish

Scientific Name

Ambassis macleayi

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

Notes

A small Australian freshwater fish usually found amongst aquatic vegetation on the edges of swamps, streams and rivers across northern Australia. Like other Glassfishes it takes it's name from its' transparent body, through which one can see the vertebrae and internal organs. 

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