Serpentine River - Summerfield Road

Basin : Murray River

Catchment : Murray - Serpentine rivers

The condition of the Serpentine River - Lowlands Road site (site code: SERP02/6141442), in the middle catchment of the Serpentine River (downstream of the Serpentine Dam) has been assessed on several occasions:

10 -11 February 2014
12 -13 May 2014
21-22 May 2014

The assessment was conducted using standard methods from the South West Index of River Condition. Measures chosen for this assessment included fish and crayfish, aquatic habitat, water quality (dissolved oxygen, temperature, electrical conductivity, and pH logged over 24h), fringing vegetation, channel morphology, erosion, connectivity, local land use and flow.

Condition summary

An online condition summary for this site has not been prepared. Please contact the department’s River Science team for site information, and see below for links to information on some of the species found at the site, and some images taken in 2014.

Fish and crayfish

Eight fish and three crayfish species were found during the assessments:

Bostockia porosa (Nightfish)
Galaxias occidentalis (Western minnow)
Leptatherina wallacei (Western hardyhead)
Mugil cephalus (Sea mullet)
Nannoperca vittata (Western pygmy perch)
Pseudogobius olorum (Swan river goby)
Tandanus bostocki (Freshwater cobbler)
Gambusia holbrooki (Eastern gambusia) – non-native
Cherax cainii (Smooth marron)
Cherax quinquecarinatus (Gilgie)
Cherax destructor (Yabby) – non-native

Only fish and crayfish are targeted by sampling methods. Other species that were caught and/or observed are listed below:

Palaemon australis (South-west glass shrimp)
Chelodina oblonga (South-western snake-necked turtle)

Click on the images below to learn more.

Species found in subcatchment

This includes all species found within the subcatchment of the assessment site, from this and previous studies in the area. The photos are linked to more information about each species, including maps of where they are expected across the south-west.