Distribution
Galaxias are restricted to the Southern Hemisphere, and generally only occur in temperate latitudes. Only one species is known from sub-tropical habitat (McDowall, 2006).
Before European settlement, galaxias were the dominant group of native freshwater fish in New Zealand, and, along with the Percichthyidae, one of two dominant groups of native fish freshwater in south-eastern Australia. Only one of the species of this genus is found in South Africa.
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