Freshwater sleepers

Freshwater sleepers
Odontobutis obscura
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Suborder:	Gobioidei
Family:	Odontobutidae Hoese & Gill, 1993
Genera
Micropercops Neodontobutis Odontobutis Perccottus Sineleotris Terateleotris See text for species.

Freshwater sleepers (Odontobutidae) is a small family of fishes in the order Perciformes. They are native to fresh water rivers flowing into the South China Sea and the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Species

There are twenty species in six genera:

• Genus Micropercops Fowler and Bean, 1920
  • Micropercops borealis Nichols, 1930.
  • Micropercops cinctus (Dabry de Thiersant, 1872).
  • Micropercops dabryi Fowler & Bean, 1920.
  • Micropercops swinhonis (Günther, 1873).
• Genus Neodontobutis Chen, Kottelat and Wu, 2002
  • Neodontobutis aurarmus (Vidthayanon, 1995).
  • Neodontobutis hainanensis (Chen, 1985).
  • Neodontobutis macropectoralis (Mai, 1978).
  • Neodontobutis tonkinensis (Mai, 1978).
• Genus Odontobutis Bleeker, 1874 - Shovel-snouts
  • Odontobutis haifengensis Chen, 1985.
  • Odontobutis hikimius Iwata & Sakai, 2002.
  • Odontobutis interrupta Iwata & Jeon, 1985.
  • Dark sleeper, Odontobutis obscura (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
  • Odontobutis platycephala Iwata & Jeon, 1985.
  • Odontobutis potamophila (Günther, 1861).
  • Odontobutis sinensis Wu, Chen & Chong, 2002.
  • Odontobutis yaluensis Wu, Wu & Xie, 1993.
• Genus Perccottus Dybowski, 1877
  • Chinese sleeper, Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877.
• Genus Sineleotris Herre, 1940
  • Sineleotris chalmersi (Nichols & Pope, 1927).
  • Sineleotris namxamensis Chen & Kottelat, 2001.
• Genus Terateleotris Shibukawa, Iwata and Viravong, 2001
  • Terateleotris aspro (Kottelat, 1998).

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Odontobutidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
• "Odontobutidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=553229. Retrieved 27 March 2006.