Waikaka/hauhau, brown mudfish

can survive out of water during drought

Where you can find them:

Mainly in New Zealand’s wetlands. 

What they look like:

A long, slender, thick skinned fish with no scales that grows up to 17cm.

Did you know:

Mudfish would have been very common before European settlement in New Zealand. Since then, we’ve lost over 95per cent of the extent of our wetlands and our mudfish have suffered.