Observations on the food of freshwater fish from the Coal and Jordan Rivers, Tasmania

Abstract

The Coal and the Jordan Rivers are two slow-flowing rivers in south-eastern Tasmania. Details are given of the stomach contents of brown trout Salmo trutta Linnaeus, English perch Perea fZuviati lis Linnaeus, short-finned eels Anguilla australis occidentalis Schmidt and Tasmanian smelt Retrop-inna tasmanica McCulloch collected from the Coal River and of the stomach contents of brown trout, English perch, tench, short-finned eels, freshwater flathead Pseudaphritis urvilli (Cuvier and Valenciennes) and galaxiids Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns) collected from the Jordan River.