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Water Quality Parameters and Population Characteristics for the Flinders Ranges Gudgeon Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/trss20 Water quality parameters and population characteristics for the Flinders Ranges Gudgeon Martin Caon, Raymond Hickman, Robert Gabb & Robert Brandle To cite this article: Martin Caon, Raymond Hickman, Robert Gabb & Robert Brandle (2021): Water quality parameters and population characteristics for the Flinders Ranges Gudgeon, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, DOI: 10.1080/03721426.2021.1913540 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/03721426.2021.1913540 Published online: 14 Apr 2021. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=trss20 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA https://doi.org/10.1080/03721426.2021.1913540 Water quality parameters and population characteristics for the Flinders Ranges Gudgeon Martin Caon a, Raymond Hickmana, Robert Gabba and Robert Brandleb aFriends of the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park Inc., South Australia; bDepartment of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, SA Government, South Australia ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY The Flinders Ranges Gudgeon (Mogurnda clivicola) in South Received 30 October 2020 Australia, is restricted to permanent spring-fed pools of two creeks Accepted 2 April 2021 in the Northern Flinders Ranges. Consequently, the fish is classified KEYWORDS as critically endangered. Regular monitoring of selected water Mogurnda clivicola; chemistry and fish population characteristics has been conducted eleotridae; Balcanoona since 2018 by a “Friends of Parks” group in an ongoing project Creek; purple spotted contributing to the conservation management for this endangered gudgeon; endangered fish; species. Mogurnda clivicola were abundant and healthy in Vulkathunha-Gammon Weetootla and Nepouie springs, with six or fewer fish displaying Ranges National Park any skin lesions on each of the four sampling occasions of May and August 2019 and June and August 2020. Hence the fish populations were not adversely affected by the exceptionally low rainfall years of 2018 and 2019. Fish of less than 2 cm total length were present at each sampling time point, indicating that breeding can occur on an opportunistic basis rather than during a breeding season. Following a substantial flood during February 2020, a substantial breeding event resulted in large numbers of small fish and at Nepouie Spring. For pools that contained fish, the water quality parameters mea­ sured and their ranges were: conductivity 1141–13 800 µS/cm; dissolved oxygen concentration 1.9–12.0 mg/L; temperature 11.4–29°C; pH 7.1–8.8; [Ca++] 36–213 mg/L; [NO3-] 0.2–17.7 mg/L. Introduction The Flinders Ranges Gudgeon, Mogurnda clivicola Allen & Jenkins, 1999 (see Figure 1) is known as Wirti Udla Varri in the local Adnyamathanha language. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2019 classifies it as “endangered”. It is classified as vulnerable by the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) as at July 2010 and as “critically endangered” in South Australia (Hammer et al., 2009). This is because its only known South Australian habitats are spring-fed pools in the usually dry creek beds of just two creeks in the Northern Flinders Ranges: the Balcanoona Creek in the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges (V-GR) National Park and nearby Nepouie Creek on the Wooltana pastoral lease. Water in these creeks only flows beyond the spring fed pools after significant rain, and in exceptionally wet conditions may drain into the otherwise dry salt–lake, Lake Frome. CONTACT Martin Caon [email protected] Friends of the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park Inc., South Australia. © 2021 Royal Society of South Australia 2 M. CAON ET AL. Figure 1. The Flinders Ranges Gudgeon, Mogurnda clivicola. The oldest SA Museum specimen of the gudgeon from Balcanoona Creek dates from 1966 when five specimens were collected by Dr H. Wopfner (Ralph Foster personal communication, 15 October 2019). Glover and Inglis (1971) referred to Mogurnda striata (Steindacher, 1866) (the chequered gudgeon, a synonym for M. adspersa (Castelnau, 1878)) as “recorded only from Balcanoona Creek (west of Lake Frome)” and as “Common in Balcanoona creek”. This early reference is undoubtedly to the Flinders Ranges Gudgeon before its taxonomy was clarified. McKay (1985, unpublished) stated that the gudgeon was recorded from Balcanoona Creek in 1968 by Glover. It was also recorded by Scott et al. as: “ . ..found in abundance in Balcanoona Creek in the Flinders Ranges and at Dalhousie springs” (Scott et al., 1974). Paratypes held in the South Australian Museum were collected from Balcanoona Creek in 1976. The Flinders Ranges Gudgeon and the gudgeon from Dalhousie springs were both first assigned to the Northern Purple Spotted Gudgeon Mogurnda mogurnda (Richardson, 1844), when it was assumed to be another occurrence of this widespread species. Later, when the Flinders Ranges Gudgeon seemed likely to be a new species, Glover referred to it as Mogurnda sp. nov. and as rare, restricted and vulnerable (Glover, 1987; Glover et al., 1979). The Flinders Ranges Gudgeon has since been described as a distinct species and is now known as Mogurnda clivicola Allen & Jenkins, 1999, while the Dalhousie Gudgeon is regarded as a separate speciesMogurnda thermophila Allen & Jenkins, 1999. Historical reports place M. clivicola at a few sites in the Cooper Creek and Bulloo River catchments in Queensland from which they may have now disappeared, but they remain extant, but poorly recorded from the Belyando River, a Burdekin River tributary (Briggs et al., 2018). Despite its vulnerability to extinction due to its extremely limited range in South Australia, initially known only in the downstream pools of Weetootla Springhead (W1 in Figure 2), in the Balcanoona Creek, the gudgeon has persisted. Mogurnda clivicola was also recorded in 1981 and 2019 at Yuwanhinya Spring (Y1 in Figure 2), a spring in Weetootla Creek. Yuwanhinya is about 1.2 km upstream of the junction (at W4) where Weetootla Creek joins Balcanoona Creek. The Weetootla Spring is also about a kilometre from the junction and water from the spring extends to this junction and, even in dry years, usually persists downstream to about “Hells Gate”. Hence the two springs are separated by about 1 km of usually dry creek bed and fish from Weetootla could only TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA 3 Figure 2. Balcanoona Creek in the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park showing sampling sites. (Note: Weetootla Creek flows to the east from Y1 to W4, while the Balcanoona Creek flows to the south-west from W1 to W4 where it is joined by the Weetootla Creek; Photo Google Earth, November 2020). reach Yuwanhinya by moving downstream to the creek junction and then swimming upstream during a floodevent. Sometime before 1981, and probably after the early 1970s, M. clivicola expanded its range to Nepouie Creek 12–13 km east of Weetootla Spring. The Nepouie pools are also fed by a permanent spring and provide a similar fishhabitat to the pools at Weetootla. Nepouie Creek is not connected to Balcanoona Creek even during flood events. Hence, its appearance in the Nepouie Spring is speculated to be due to a translocation by humans. Both the Weetootla and Nepouie springs discharge warm water into their creeks, while the water at Yuwanhinya is at ambient temperature. The populations of M. clivicola in Balcanoona and Nepouie creeks were assessed by Roush during a three–day visit in March 2016. This was a snapshot assessment of one time point. There remains the need for a program of continuous monitoring over a period of years to document fluctuations in water quality and the effect of these fluctuations on the fish population. Notably, M. clivicola has shown the ability to continue to inhabit small shallow permanent pools that are replenished by warm water received from permanently flowing springs. These springs have discharged water con­ tinuously even though 2018 and 2019 were years of exceptionally low rainfall. The authors can report that in 2017-2020, M. clivicola was restricted to the 1 km sections of Balcanoona Creek immediately downstream of the Yuwanhinya and Weetootla springs (McKay’s sampling sites 1 and 3), and that Balcanoona Creek adjacent to the Balcanoona homestead, where McKay collected M. clivicola, was dry. In addition, it was also common in the permanent pools below Nepouie Spring (see Figure 3). The ICUN Redlist entry for the Flinders Ranges Gudgeon (Whiterod et al., 2019) reiterates the “Approved conservation advice for Mogurnda clivicola (Flinders Ranges Gudgeon)” (DEWHA, 2008), and the Action Plan for South Australian Freshwater Fishes 4 M. CAON ET AL. Figure 3. Nepouie Creek, showing the four sampling sites, flows to the south-east from N1 (the spring- head) to N4. (Photo Google Earth, November 2020). (Hammer et al., 2009). The action plan (p. 57) recommends several actions to protect and restore populations of this threatened fish. They include: (1) Continue terrestrial vertebrate pest control program. To this end, the Bounceback Program has been operating since 1992. Annual on-the ground goat shooting by the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia, Conservation and Wildlife Management (SA), followed up with aerial culls by National Parks and Wildlife shooters have removed more than 35,000 animals (NPWS Bounceback data). In addition any donkeys, cats and dogs observed are also culled. Fox baiting with 1080 has been conducted quarterly since 1992 with two of the four annual poisoning events being delivered aerially since 2007 (Brandle et al., 2018). (2) Develop contingency plans for extreme conditions or new threats (e.g. refuge drying, control of feral fish introductions) and investigate sites and methods for establishing artificial refugia. White and Scholz (2008) have visited and described 13 sites in the Flinders Ranges with springs and water holes.
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