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Campbell, Ciaran S. M.; Dutoit, Ludovic; King, Tania M.; Craw, Dave; Burridge, Christopher P.; Wallis, Graham P.; Waters, Jonathan M. (October 2022). "Genome-wide analysis resolves the radiation of New
Zealand's freshwater Galaxias vulgaris complex and reveals a candidate species obscured by
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Reynolds, T. (2012). "The Late Pleistocene evolution of palaeo megalake Bungunnia, southeastern Australia: A sedimentary record of fluctuating lake dynamics, climate change and the formation of the modern Murray River".
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Craw, Dave; Campbell, Ciaran; Waters, Jonathan M. (8 September 2022). "Miocene-Holocene river drainage evolution in
Southland, New Zealand, deduced from fish genetics, detrital gold and geology".
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river system to the west are (or were) found naturally occurring in a number of coastal systems spanning almost the entire length of the range.
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