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The fat sleeper (Dormitator maculatus) is a species of fish belonging to the family Eleotridae, known for their flat heads; they are generally found in fresh water, ...
Although goby-like in many ways, sleeper gobies lack the pelvic fin sucker and that, together with other morphological differences, is used to distinguish the two families. The Gobiidae and Eleotridae likely share a common ancestor and they are both placed in the order Gobiiformes, along with a few other small families containing goby-like fishes.
Dormitator latifrons, the Pacific fat sleeper, is a species of fish in the family Eleotridae found on the Pacific coast of the Americas from around Palos Verdes, California, to Peru, where it can be found in stagnant or sluggish fresh or brackish waters or nearby marine waters. Males of this species can reach a length of 41 cm (16 in), while ...
Sleeper banded goby. Banded sleeper goby coming out of hole. A sand-sifting goby cleans the substrate through its gills, including getting rid of certain bacteria, and also grazes on algae. A ...
Sleeper goby may refer to three families of goby formerly classified as part of the single family Eleotridae, and a genus from the family Gobiidae: Milyeringidae, a family of Gobiiform cave fish from Western Australia and Madagascar; Butidae, an Old World family of gobies
Goby is also used to describe some species which are not classified within the order Gobiiformes, such as the engineer goby or convict blenny Pholidichthys leucotaenia. [2] The word goby derives from the Latin gobius meaning " gudgeon ", [ 3 ] and some species of goby, especially the sleeper gobies in the family Eleotridae and some of the ...
Four-eyed sleeper (Bostrychus sinensis) Green-backed gudgeon (Bunaka gyrinoides) Ambon gudgeon (Butis amboinensis) Crazy fish (Butis butis) Tailface sleeper (Calumia godeffroyi) Pacific fat sleeper (Dormitator latifrons) Sleeper goby (Dormitator lebretonis) Fat sleeper (Dormitator maculatus) Spine-cheek gudgeon (Eleotris acanthopoma)
The Butidae are one of the two families which are given the common name "sleeper gobies", and indeed were formerly classified as subfamily of the traditional sleeper goby family Eleotridae, although some phylogenies have placed them closer to the Oxucerdidae and the Gobiidae than to the Eleotridae.