Oxyeleotris is a genus of sleeper gobies mostly restricted to Australia and New Guinea, though some (O. marmorata, O. siamensis, O. urophthalmoides and O. urophthalmus) are found in Southeast Asia.
| Oxyeleotris | |
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| Marble Goby (O. marmorata) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Butidae |
| Genus: | Oxyeleotris Bleeker, 1874 |
| Type species | |
| Eleotris marmorata Bleeker, 1852[1]
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They are found in a wide range of fresh and brackish water habitats, and the two species O. caeca and O. colasi are cave-dwellers.[2]
Species edit
There 17 recognized species in this genus are:[3][2]
- Oxyeleotris altipinna G. R. Allen & Renyaan, 1996
- Oxyeleotris aruensis (M. C. W. Weber, 1911) (Aru gudgeon)
- Oxyeleotris caeca G. R. Allen, 1996
- Oxyeleotris colasi Pouyaud, Kadarusman, Hadiaty, Slembrouck, Lemauk, Kusumah & Keith, 2013[2]
- Oxyeleotris fimbriata (M. C. W. Weber, 1907) (fimbriate gudgeon)
- Oxyeleotris herwerdenii (M. C. W. Weber, 1910) (blackbanded gauvina)
- Oxyeleotris heterodon (M. C. W. Weber, 1907) (Sentani gudgeon)
- Oxyeleotris lineolata (Steindachner, 1867) (sleepy cod)
- Oxyeleotris marmorata (Bleeker, 1852) (marble goby)
- Oxyeleotris nullipora T. R. Roberts, 1978 (poreless gudgeon)
- Oxyeleotris paucipora T. R. Roberts, 1978 (few-pored gudgeon)
- Oxyeleotris selheimi (W. J. Macleay, 1884) (giant gudgeon)
- Oxyeleotris siamensis (Günther, 1861)
- Oxyeleotris stagnicola G. R. Allen, Hortle & Renyaan, 2000 (Swamp gudgeon)
- Oxyeleotris urophthalmoides (Bleeker, 1853)
- Oxyeleotris urophthalmus (Bleeker, 1851)
- Oxyeleotris wisselensis G. R. Allen & Boeseman, 1982 (Paniai gudgeon)
References edit
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Oxyeleotris". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ^ a b c Pouyaud, L., Kadarusman, Hadiaty, R.K., Slembrouck, J., Lemauk, N., Kusumah, R.V. & Keith, P. (2013): Oxyeleotris colasi (Teleostei: Eleotridae), a new blind cave fish from Lengguru in West Papua, Indonesia. Cybium, 36 (4): 521-529.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Oxyeleotris in FishBase. April 2013 version.
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