Freshwater sleeper
| Freshwater sleeper | |
|---|---|
| Odontobutis obscura | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Percomorpha |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| 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.