- Freshwater sleepers
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Freshwater sleepers Odontobutis obscura Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Suborder: Gobioidei Family: Odontobutidae
Hoese & Gill, 1993Genera 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
- Odontobutis haifengensis Chen, 1985.
- Odontobutis hikimius Iwata & Sakai, 2002.
- Odontobutis interrupta Iwata & Jeon, 1985.
- 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.
Categories: - Genus Micropercops Fowler and Bean, 1920
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