Odontobutidae
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Freshwater sleepers 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
.
Perciformes
The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...
. They are native to fresh water
Fresh Water
Fresh Water is the debut album by Australian rock and blues singer Alison McCallum, released in 1972. Rare for an Australian artist at the time, it came in a gatefold sleeve...
rivers flowing into the South China Sea
South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from the Singapore and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around...
and the northwestern Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
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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 haifengensisOdontobutis haifengensisOdontobutis haifengensis is a species of Odontobutidae family. Freshwater / brackishwater benthopelagic subtropical fish, up to 10.7 cm length. Endemic of Guangdong province, China.- Sources :*...
Chen, 1985. - Odontobutis hikimius Iwata & Sakai, 2002.
- Odontobutis interrupta Iwata & Jeon, 1985.
- Odontobutis obscuraOdontobutis obscuraOdontobutis obscura is a species of Odontobutidae family. Freshwater benthopelagic fish, up to 12.0 cm length. Widespread in the water bodies of the Far East: China, Japan, and Korea.- Sources :*...
(TemminckCoenraad Jacob TemminckCoenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch aristocrat and zoologist.Temminck was the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden from 1820 until his death. His Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe was the standard work on European birds...
& SchlegelHermann SchlegelHermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...
, 1845). - Odontobutis platycephala Iwata & Jeon, 1985.
- Odontobutis potamophila (Günther, 1861).
- Odontobutis sinensis Wu, Chen & Chong, 2002.
- Odontobutis yaluensis Wu, Wu & Xie, 1993.
- Odontobutis haifengensis
- 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).