New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts
Laboratory culture of Galaxias maculatus and potential applications
CHARLES P. MITCHELL
Fisheries Research Centre
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
P.O. Box 6016, Rotorua, New Zealand
Abstract
Galaxias maculatus has considerable potential as a laboratory animal. Laboratory techniques used to maintain, artificially spawn, hatch, and rear tliis New Zealand native freshwater fish are described. Potential research applications for the fish, the eggs, and the larvae are outlined. The developm ent of the larvae is described.
Keywords Galaxias maculatus; New Zealand; freshwater fish; fish culture; larval fish; rearing; pituitary gland; hypophysation
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1989, Vol. 23: 325-336 0028-833 0/2303-O325$2.50/0 © Crown copyright 1989 Received 1. September 1988; accepted 20 April 1989
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