Freshwater sleeper
Appearance
Freshwater sleeper | |
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Odontobutis obscura | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Clade: | Percomorpha |
Order: | Gobiiformes |
Family: | Odontobutidae Hoese & A. C. Gill, 1993 |
Genera[1] | |
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Freshwater sleepers are a small family, the Odontobutidae, of gobiiform ray-finned fishes native to freshwater rivers flowing into the South China Sea and the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The family consists of about 22 species in six genera.
Genera
[edit]The following genera are currently recognised as being within the family Odontobutidae:[2]
- Micropercops Fowler & Bean, 1920
- Neodontobutis I. S. Chen, Kottelat & H. L. Wu, 2002
- Odontobutis Bleeker, 1874
- Perccottus Dybowski, 1877
- Sineleotris Herre, 1940
- Terateleotris Shibukawa, Iwata & Viravong, 2001
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Odontobutidae". FishBase. February 2014 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Odontobutidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 July 2018.