COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
List of Specimens taken to be Suitable for Live Import Amendment
(seven species of rainbowfish) Instrument 2023
I, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water, pursuant to subparagraphs 303EC(1)(a)(i) and 303EC(1)(a)(iii) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, and having considered a report prepared for the purposes of paragraph 303EC(5)(a) of that Act, make the following amendment by including in Part 2 of the List of Specimens taken to be Suitable for Live Import (29/11/2001) under the heading ‘Vertebrate Animals’, ‘Bony fishes (Osteichthyes),’ in the appropriate alphabetic position:
Taxon | Common Name | Conditions for import |
Kiunga ballochi | glass blue-eye, Balloch’s blue-eye, Kiunga blue-eye | Captive-bred specimens only, of minimum length 2 cm SL |
Kiunga bleheri | Bleher’s blue-eye | Captive-bred specimens only, of minimum length 2 cm SL |
Pseudomugil connieae | Popondetta blue-eye | Captive-bred specimens only, of minimum length 2 cm SL |
Pseudomugil furcatus | forktail rainbowfish | Captive-bred specimens only, of minimum length 2 cm SL |
Pseudomugil ivantsoffi | Ivantsoff’s blue-eye | Captive-bred specimens only, of minimum length 2 cm SL |
Pseudomugil luminatus | red neon blue-eye | Captive-bred specimens only, of minimum length 2 cm SL |
Pseudomugil reticulatus | Vogelkop blue-eye | Captive-bred specimens only, of minimum length 2 cm SL |
This instrument commences the day after registration.
Dated: 5-12-2023
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TANYA PLIBERSEK
Minister for the Environment and Water