at this age. The juvenile fish migrate upstream to their usual habitat. Nocturnal in habit and secretive in nature, the fish usually rest during daylight in heavy vegetation or half buried in the muddy substrate. N. cleaveri can aestivate if water in its location dries up in summer or in times of drought, burying horizontally in the mud or by seeking out moist areas of substrate under rocks and logs. Naming Other common names include Australian mudfish, mud trout, and mud galaxias. Other scientific names include: Galaxias cleaveri, Saxilaga cleaveri, Saxilaga anguilliforms, and Galaxias upcheri. The genus Neochanna is derived from the Greek neos meaning new and Channa, an Asian genus of aestivating fishes. The species name is derived from the fish's original collector, Mr. F. Cleaver. References Tasmanian mudfish Freshwater fish of Tasmania Tasmanian mudfish