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Aquarium dumping putting Australia's few cavefish at risk inland from Ningaloo Reef

A native blind gudgeon near the surface of a pool in Exmouth. (Supplied: Chris Bird/DPIRD)

The coastal town of Exmouth may be known as a place you can swim with the world's biggest fish, the whale shark, but its hidden cave systems harbour a much smaller aquatic marvel.

Under the ranges and rocks of the North West Cape is a karst system — a series of underground caves and waterways formed in dissolved limestone — which is the only place you will find two of Australia's three cavefish species.

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