Freshwater sleeper
| Freshwater sleeper Temporal range:
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| Odontobutis obscura | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Suborder: | Gobioidei |
| Family: | Odontobutidae Hoese & A. C. Gill, 1993 |
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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
A single fossil genus is known, †Paralates Sauvage, 1883, from the Late Eocene of England and Early Oligocene of France. This genus was long considered an early gobioid of uncertain affinities, but a 2025 study, which also analyzed its otolith morphology, found it to be a stem-member of the Odontobutidae.[3]
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.
- ^ Bauer, Elena; Cerwenka, Alexander F.; Schliewen, Ulrich K.; Reichenbacher, Bettina (2025). "New osteological characteristics identify the first stem sleeper goby (Gobioidei, Odontobutidae) from the upper Eocene". Papers in Palaeontology. 11 (4) e70029. doi:10.1002/spp2.70029. ISSN 2056-2802.
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