Spinycheek sleepers
Spinycheek sleepers | |
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E. oxycephala from Yaizu, Shizuoka, Japan | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Suborder: | Gobioidei |
Family: | Eleotridae |
Genus: | Eleotris Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801 |
Type species | |
Gobius pisonis J. F. Gmelin, 1789 |
Spinycheek sleepers comprise a genus (Eleotris) of sleeper gobies with a circumglobal distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. Members of this genus are found in marine, brackish, and fresh water.
Species
The 30 recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Eleotris acanthopoma Bleeker, 1853 (spinycheek gudgeon)
- Eleotris amblyopsis (Cope, 1871) (large-scaled spinycheek sleeper)
- Eleotris andamensis Herre, 1939
- Eleotris annobonensis Blanc, Cadenat & Stauch, 1968
- Eleotris aquadulcis G. R. Allen & Coates, 1990 (freshwater gudgeon)
- Eleotris balia D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1905
- Eleotris brachyurus Bleeker, 1849
- Eleotris daganensis Steindachner, 1870
- Eleotris fasciatus T. R. Chen, 1964
- Eleotris feai Thys van den Audenaerde & Tortonese, 1974
- Eleotris fusca (J. R. Forster, 1801) (dusky sleeper)
- Eleotris lutea F. Day, 1876 (Lutea sleeper)
- Eleotris macrocephala (Bleeker, 1857)
- Eleotris macrolepis (Bleeker, 1875)
- Eleotris mauritianus E. T. Bennett, 1832 (widehead sleeper)
- Eleotris melanosoma Bleeker, 1853 (broadhead sleeper)
- Eleotris melanura Bleeker, 1849
- Eleotris oxycephala Temminck & Schlegel, 1845
- Eleotris pellegrini Maugé, 1984
- Eleotris perniger (Cope, 1871) (small-scaled spinycheek sleeper)
- Eleotris picta Kner, 1863 (spotted sleeper)
- Eleotris pisonis (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) (spinycheek sleeper)
- Eleotris pseudacanthopomus Bleeker, 1853
- Eleotris sandwicensis Vaillant & Sauvage, 1875 (Sandwich Island sleeper)
- Eleotris senegalensis Steindachner, 1870
- Eleotris soaresi Playfair (fr), 1867
- Eleotris tecta W. A. Bussing, 1996
- Eleotris tubularis Heller & Snodgrass, 1903
- Eleotris vittata A. H. A. Duméril, 1861
- Eleotris vomerodentata Maugé, 1984
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Eleotris in FishBase. April 2013 version.
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