''Bostrychus'' is a genus of fishes in the family
Butidae
Butidae is a family of sleeper gobies in the order Gobiiformes. The family was formerly classified as a subfamily of the Eleotridae but the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World classifies it as a family in its own right. Molecular phylogenetic anal ...
mostly native to eastern
Asia
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to
Australia
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with one species being found along the
Atlantic
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coast of
Africa
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. While some of these species are restricted to freshwater, most can be found in marine, fresh and brackish waters.
Species
There are currently nine recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Bostrychus africanus''
( Steindachner, 1879)
* ''
Bostrychus albooculata''
( Herre, 1927)
* ''
Bostrychus aruensis''
M. C. W. Weber, 1911 (Island gudgeon)
* ''
Bostrychus expatria''
( Herre, 1927)
* ''
Bostrychus microphthalmus''
Hoese & Kottelat
Maurice Kottelat (born 16 July 1957 in Delémont, Switzerland[C ...](_blank)
, 2005
* ''
Bostrychus scalaris
''Bostrychus'' is a genus of fishes in the family Butidae mostly native to eastern Asia to Australia with one species being found along the Atlantic coast of Africa. While some of these species are restricted to freshwater, most can be found in ...
''
Larson, 2008 (Ladder gudgeon)
* ''
Bostrychus sinensis''
Lacépède, 1801 (Four-eyed sleeper)
* ''
Bostrychus strigogenys''
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, 1937 (Striped-cheek gudgeon)
* ''
Bostrychus zonatus''
M. C. W. Weber, 1907 (Barred gudgeon)
References
Butidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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