Percottus glenii

Taxobox
name = Chinese sleeper
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
subordo =
familia = Odontobutidae
genus = Percottus
species =
latin = Percottus glenii
wikispecies = Percottus glenii

Chinese sleeper (Amur sleeper; Percottus glenii Dybowski, 1877) - freshwater fish of Odontobutidae family.

Originally it was native to Amur River basin. Later it was introduced to fresh water rivers of the whole northern Eurasia including much of Russia, Ukraine, Poland, north-east of China and northeast of Korea.

It prefers to live in stagnant rivers and bogs. It eats animals, including other young fish and gnatworms.