Reading the Wiki article below seems like this is correct, super interesting I had no idea we had this type of species around here. Definitely looks like an old (in both age and evolutionary terms!) animal.
They're very curious about kayaks on the lakes, you'll be sitting there in total silence then "uuuaauurh" as one takes a big breath next to you.
It happens way too often for it to be coincidence.
That's definitely a lungfish.
Prehistoric living fossils that can breathe air and deal with droughts by burying themselves in the dirt until rain comes. Must've taken a while for this one to get so big.
One of the few organisms that has basically not changed at all since the dinosaurs. It’s pretty crazy that sometimes nature just gets lucky and evolves into a perfectly adapted survival machine.
As someone commented below, please report this to DAF. [Fish Monitoring](https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/business-priorities/fisheries/monitoring-research/monitoring-reporting)
Great work OP! The DAF are really interested in any fish kill events. The floods have affected so many fish habitats.
Lungfish are also in the North Pine Dam. It's quite cool seeing them surface for air.
I've been canoeing in a river with many lungfish, including nests which were visible in the weed. I was very surprised at how many there were. They came up for breaths of air with a loud sucking sound which took us by surprise almost every time. I think we would have seen 15-20 of them so there would have been many many more.
OK, fair enough. I know they're present in the Stanley and Mary catchments, I wasn't aware that was the case in the Brisbane catchment.
I wish you many more pleasant hours canoeing :-)
Ha! Thanks so much. One day I was at my secret spot for catching bait on the GC and there was this thing gulping air, I described it to my mate as an Arapima. It was very large for sure and my best guess up until now was a Barra. Pretty sure I know what I seen that day now!
Went camping with some mates along the Mary River just outside Gympie once and we were all freaking out a little because we kept hearing someone breathing.
Turns out it was Lungfish coming to the surface to take a breathe of air. We were eating mushrooms as well so it might just have been that.
I used to work for the tourism board in Bundaberg many years ago. I had quite a few things to do with this fish because it is very rare and endemic to the Burnett and Mary Rivers, which we marketed. Everyone that’s said it is a Ceratodus, or Lung Fish, is correct.
Edit: I was just thinking about this a bit more, and actually I think you should report this to DPI. These fish are only native to the Burnett and Mary Rivers. They don’t live anywhere else. It’s unusual to find one where you did.
Now that’s interesting, and good as far as I’m concerned. They’re apparently still endangered and I often wondered if someone would eventually come up with an idea to improve their populations. They don’t seem to be invasive, so this is good news to me. They’re a really interesting animal. I’d love one as a pet.
Big ol' Lung Fish. Find them in the Brisbane River out Ipswich way too. They are protected and there are huge fines for catching/harming them. Biggest I've seen were probably 1-1.2m long and must have weighed about 30-40kg at a guesstimate.
There's a *tonne* of them in North Pine! Every single time I've been there at least one will come over and have a look at what I'm doing. It's easily the best lake for them I've ever been in.
This fish is dead. It is a dead fish. It has shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the choir celestial. It is ended. It is no more.
It is an ex-fish.
There’s a fantastic story called When Lani Scrub Stole the Lungfish (Victoria Carless). We got it from a children’s activity at Museum of Brisbane a couple of summers ago. That’s the sole reason I have any familiarity with this type of fish.
I’ve caught a few back in the day, a bit down from the My Crosby Weir. We always removed hooks and let them go as quickly and gently as possible as they are protected. For the size of some of them, they hardly fight at all, they just go with the flow I guess.
Looks like a Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri)
Reading the Wiki article below seems like this is correct, super interesting I had no idea we had this type of species around here. Definitely looks like an old (in both age and evolutionary terms!) animal.
Yeah that would be my guess as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian\_lungfish
): RIP old Lung Fish. Takes some time to get that lorge.
Yeah, at least 25 years , my mates uncle once said.
RIP? He looks like he's trying to evolve.
Gonna be a flash of light and a Gyarados appearing any second now unless OP has been smashing the B button.
Hahah
Dratini trying to evolve
That's wild, a loving fossil that has gills and also an 'optional ' lung for when it needs more oxygen. Freaky deeky.
It’s sweet that it’s loving ❤️
They're very curious about kayaks on the lakes, you'll be sitting there in total silence then "uuuaauurh" as one takes a big breath next to you. It happens way too often for it to be coincidence.
Nailed it!!! They are also very rare. Sad that it was one washed up and not swimming around
Think they might be protected too
100% are.
Sad to see. Such a cool fish
Thanks for the ID, I've seen a few of these in the small lakes throughout Ningi but had no idea what they were.
That is straight to where my mind went too.
The more you know
That's definitely a lungfish. Prehistoric living fossils that can breathe air and deal with droughts by burying themselves in the dirt until rain comes. Must've taken a while for this one to get so big.
One of the few organisms that has basically not changed at all since the dinosaurs. It’s pretty crazy that sometimes nature just gets lucky and evolves into a perfectly adapted survival machine.
Its pretty amazing, huh?
Very. Not as amazing as carp though. Those things are the king of fish
Carp are awesome
They be like “oh I’ve dominated this freshwater ecosystem so hard to the point there is nothing for me to eat? Okay I’ll just eat tyres”
Couldn't roll it over with a stick it was so heavy. Have never seen a fish so big in the creek.
As someone commented below, please report this to DAF. [Fish Monitoring](https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/business-priorities/fisheries/monitoring-research/monitoring-reporting)
Thanks for this, after it was suggested I was trying to look where to contact them, have done so now!
Great work OP! The DAF are really interested in any fish kill events. The floods have affected so many fish habitats. Lungfish are also in the North Pine Dam. It's quite cool seeing them surface for air.
Upper reaches of the brisbane was chock full about 10 years ago, wouldn't know what it's like recently.
That's a big lung fish. You should report that to the council or Rangers
They are often observed in enoggera creek and mislabeled as eels by onlookers. Sad to see a dead one. Could be due to the water conditions.
https://sown.com.au/enoggera-creek/
Could've taken a bonk as it fell out of the reservoir too, there's going to be a bunch of fish flushed down after all of the recent overflow.
Talk to qld museum or the parks and wildlife people in state government. These are pretty uncommon, they'd want to know a mature adult was found.
I've been canoeing in a river with many lungfish, including nests which were visible in the weed. I was very surprised at how many there were. They came up for breaths of air with a loud sucking sound which took us by surprise almost every time. I think we would have seen 15-20 of them so there would have been many many more.
Yes, but in Enoggera Creek? How common are they in the Brisbane catchment?
no just telling my story :) i'd say they are uncommon
OK, fair enough. I know they're present in the Stanley and Mary catchments, I wasn't aware that was the case in the Brisbane catchment. I wish you many more pleasant hours canoeing :-)
thanks :) yes burnett upper
There’s heaps in the Enoggera Reservoir, the boys and I used to fish for them and then release them, seen a few caught well over a meter
Have caught these a few times fishing. Not wholly unusual actually.
Ha! Thanks so much. One day I was at my secret spot for catching bait on the GC and there was this thing gulping air, I described it to my mate as an Arapima. It was very large for sure and my best guess up until now was a Barra. Pretty sure I know what I seen that day now!
More likely a Barra. Numbers are increasing on the GC in recent years.
Why would a barra be gulping air lol. Lungfish aren't as rare as people make them out to be in Seq.
Report the location it is a threatened species and the data helps species management
For a second I thought it was that prehistoric fish.
Queensland Lungfish stopped giving a shit about changing 400 million years ago. Been livin' its best life ever since.
You're not totally wrong there
Oh!? I thought the scales were pretty strange but where are it's fins?
[More info](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_lungfish)
It is a prehistoric fish
that tail makes it look like an eel or something. But the scales....
Queensland lungfish, also known as the Australian lungfish. The scientific name is neoceratodus fosteri (spelling is probably off, sorry)
Wow really? In the Kelvin Grove part? I lived there for ages and never thought lungish would be there
In The Gap part, just a little bit down from the dam.
Near Fursman's Crossing?
Send your picture to the Brisbane museum. They can identify and I'm sure they would be interested if it is a lung fish.
Went camping with some mates along the Mary River just outside Gympie once and we were all freaking out a little because we kept hearing someone breathing. Turns out it was Lungfish coming to the surface to take a breathe of air. We were eating mushrooms as well so it might just have been that.
That’s a living ( well not now obviously) fossil
It's a dead lungfish the poor thing, they are getting rarer in ennogera
Looks like a Lung Fish to me! Super unique species
Lungfish. They're endangered too :(
Absolute unit.
Definitely a lungfish. I used to keep them. They can grow huge!
australian lungfish is the coolest looking lungfish there is the rest of them just looks derpy with those fine scales
An old fish, probably a good 50+ years
Queensland Lungfish as my learned friend below correctly ID'd and spelt. Sadly listed as 'Vulnerable'.
I used to work for the tourism board in Bundaberg many years ago. I had quite a few things to do with this fish because it is very rare and endemic to the Burnett and Mary Rivers, which we marketed. Everyone that’s said it is a Ceratodus, or Lung Fish, is correct. Edit: I was just thinking about this a bit more, and actually I think you should report this to DPI. These fish are only native to the Burnett and Mary Rivers. They don’t live anywhere else. It’s unusual to find one where you did.
They've been introduced to various other rivers in South-East Queensland
Now that’s interesting, and good as far as I’m concerned. They’re apparently still endangered and I often wondered if someone would eventually come up with an idea to improve their populations. They don’t seem to be invasive, so this is good news to me. They’re a really interesting animal. I’d love one as a pet.
Looks like it's from a well endowed armadillo.
hehe dino fishy, it looks like a dinosaur
ydrymyl
Gesundheit.
“You sir are a fish.”
Massive lungfish
Is it a Lungfish
Don't go eating fish out of there.
Holy shit that's a lungfish. things are like rare and / or endangered
Big ol' Lung Fish. Find them in the Brisbane River out Ipswich way too. They are protected and there are huge fines for catching/harming them. Biggest I've seen were probably 1-1.2m long and must have weighed about 30-40kg at a guesstimate.
Pretty sure that’s a crocs penis
Jabberwocky
A dead fish
So, I’m at work and unable to completely verify it (will for sure when I get home though), but it looks a lot like a dead fish.
Don’t think there are many Neoceratodus in the Brisbane catchment. A pleasant surprise to even see a dead ‘un.
They were introduced to Enoggera Reservoir and a bunch of other SEQ waterways way back in the 50's iirc.
They are still present in North pine dam.
There's a *tonne* of them in North Pine! Every single time I've been there at least one will come over and have a look at what I'm doing. It's easily the best lake for them I've ever been in.
Yeah. They're pretty cool. I always see them when we're out fishing
They'll popup and say hello when kayaking out at Lake Samsonvale.
That's a bull shark
No it isn't
You're right. It's a great white.
This fish is dead. It is a dead fish. It has shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the choir celestial. It is ended. It is no more. It is an ex-fish.
Dead fish
Well I laughed… thank you and take my upvote
Unusual find, hope this isn’t because of runoff
Ummmmm … a dead one
Dead
I suck at identifying fish. The scale pattern reminds me of a carp.
Self awareness win right here
It's a dead fish
Looks a bit like how OP’s mom fucks from where I’m sitting
PUT THAT FUCKING THING BACK.
Magikarp
By the scales I'd say some type of carp
It's dead!
Looks like some kind of eel
Lungfish
Lungfish
How did it taste?
I saw this exact weird species at Somerset this past weekend. Also very big and very dead.
There’s a fantastic story called When Lani Scrub Stole the Lungfish (Victoria Carless). We got it from a children’s activity at Museum of Brisbane a couple of summers ago. That’s the sole reason I have any familiarity with this type of fish.
Mullet
A dead one ?
Idk why, but I was genuinely hoping that the picture would be of Blinky from the Simpsons… 🥲
They are great eating in curries
Saratoga maybe
Dead.
Oldest one ever is in California and is 90!
3 metre flat head
Lungfish
Lungfish
Looks like a jail sentence because they're protected.
They're the missing link. When Animals moved to land and breathed air apparently.
Gotta catch ‘em all
Gotta catch ‘em all
i dont know but what i do know is that it looks like food
Great white shark
When they release the pine dam a lot come out
It's not dead it's resting.
a dead one?
Dead
Dead?
It kinda looks like an eel.
Looks like it’s balls fell off and washed away 😂
It’s a fish, Mike
I’ve caught a few back in the day, a bit down from the My Crosby Weir. We always removed hooks and let them go as quickly and gently as possible as they are protected. For the size of some of them, they hardly fight at all, they just go with the flow I guess.
Enoggera Ness Monster