Banded Kokopu

Banded Kokopu

The Banded Kokopu is very interesting and has lots of unusual features about it.

The Banded Kokopu usually grows up to 20 - 25cm but has been recorded at 30 cm long they also are very good climbers. They live in the pool area of a catchment.

They spend the first 3 - 4 months at sea before migrating back to fresh water as whitebait. They breathe by swallowing water and pumping it over their gills. The Banded Kokopu mostly feed on invertebrates that live in the stream bends but they also eat insects that fall into the water.

The Banded Kokopu has been affected by people pouring sewage into the water they are also affected by deforestation and humans destroying their lakes and homes to build over.

We could protect its habitat and stop destroying them.

I think that the Banded Kokopu is a amazing, Interesting and unusual creature.