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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

 

 

…………………………………………..

TANYA PLIBERSEK

Minister for the Environment and Water