Butis

Butis
Crazy fish (Butis butis)
Mud sleeper (Butis koilomatodon)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Eleotridae
Subfamily: Butinae
Genus: Butis
Bleeker, 1856
Type species
Cheilodipterus butis
Hamilton, 1822

Butis is a genus of sleeper gobies in the family Eleotridae. It contains the following species:[1]

  • Butis amboinensis (Bleeker, 1853) - Olive flathead-gudgeon, ambon gudgeon, biyang sunog, kaple, susunog
  • Butis butis (Hamilton, 1822) - Crazy fish, duckbill sleeper, crimson-tipped flathead gudgeon, upside-down sleeper
  • Butis gymnopomus (Bleeker, 1853) - Puntang, latåré, tungulian
  • Butis humeralis (Valenciennes, 1837) - Black-spotted gudgeon
  • Butis koilomatodon (Bleeker, 1849) - Marblecheek sleeper, mud sleeper
  • Butis melanostigma (Bleeker, 1849) - Black-spotted gudgeon

References

  1. ^ WoRMS (2010), "Butis Bleeker, 1856", in Nicolas Bailly, FishBase, World Register of Marine Species, retrieved January 6, 2012 
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