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logo 5/9/2024 4:19:45 AM     
Scientists rejoice over discovery of native wetland fish thought to be extinct 
By Sarah Lawrence AU Source: ABC Central Victoria 3/6/2021
Sarah Lawrence
 In 1998, the southern purple-spotted gudgeon was declared extinct.
But now, the so-called "zombie fish" has come back from the brink, if not the dead, and scientists are determined to stop the species from slipping through their fingers again.

Twenty years after the small, colourful fish was last seen in Victoria, two stragglers were found in Middle Reedy Lake at the Kerang wetlands, in the northern reaches of the state.
 

A taskforce of scientists and researchers was immediately set up and, like detectives, they set about methodically searching the wetlands for other members of the delicate species.

Two years on, they have announced that they have found another 66 of the "mysterious" fish living in a colony in dense reeds.

  
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