Freshwater sleepers are a small family, the Odontobutidae, of gobiiform 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.
| Freshwater sleeper | |
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| Odontobutis obscura | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Percomorpha |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Odontobutidae Hoese & A. C. Gill, 1993 |
| Genera[1] | |
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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
References edit
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2014). "Odontobutidae" in 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.
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