''Hypseleotris'' is a genus of fishes in the family
Eleotridae
Eleotridae is a family of fish commonly known as sleeper gobies, with about 34 genera and 180 species. Most species are found in the tropical Indo-Pacific region, but there are also species in subtropical and temperate regions, warmer parts of th ...
. Most are from fresh water in Australia and New Guinea, but species in fresh and brackish water are found around islands in the western Indian Ocean, southern and eastern Africa, southern and eastern Asia, and Pacific islands. The largest species reaches a length of . They are sometimes seen in the
aquarium
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trade; especially ''H. compressa''. In Australia they are known as carp gudgeons.
The assemblage of species of this genus which occurs in the basin of the Murray-Darling river system is made up of sexually reproducing species and hybrid lineages which consiste of a single sex and which have arisen through hybridisation, a process known as hybridogenesis. The single sex species require gametes from the sexual species to reproduce and could be regarded as sexual parasites and in "closed populations" this sexual parasitism can cause the extinction of such populations.
Species
The 16 recognized species in this genus are:
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Hypseleotris aurea
''Hypseleotris aurea'', the golden gudgeon, is a species of fish in the family Eleotridae endemic to Australia, where it is found in rocky pools in the Murchison and Gascoyne Rivers in Western Australia. This species can reach a length of . It ...
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, 1950) (golden gudgeon)
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Hypseleotris barrawayi
''Hypseleotris'' is a genus of fishes in the family Eleotridae. Most are from fresh water in Australia and New Guinea, but species in fresh and brackish water are found around islands in the western Indian Ocean, southern and eastern Africa, s ...
Hypseleotris compressa
''Hypseleotris compressa'', the empire gudgeon, is a species of Gobiiform fish in the family Eleotridae endemic to Australia and south-central New Guinea.
Taxonomy
Gerard Krefft described the empire gudgeon in 1864 as ''Eleotris compressus'', ha ...
Hypseleotris compressocephalus
''Hypseleotris'' is a genus of fishes in the family Eleotridae. Most are from fresh water in Australia and New Guinea, but species in fresh and brackish water are found around islands in the western Indian Ocean, southern and eastern Africa, s ...
Hypseleotris cyprinoides
''Hypseleotris cyprinoides'', the tropical carp-gudgeon or tropical bitterling-gudgeon, is a species of fish in the family Eleotridae found in fresh, brackish, and marine coastal waters from Africa through southern Asia to the Pacific Islands. T ...
Hypseleotris ejuncida
''Hypseleotris ejuncida'', the slender gudgeon or slender carp gudgeon, is a species of fish in the family Eleotridae endemic to Australia, where it is only known to occur around Kimberley in Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbr ...
Hypseleotris everetti
''Hypseleotris'' is a genus of fishes in the family Eleotridae. Most are from fresh water in Australia and New Guinea, but species in fresh and brackish water are found around islands in the western Indian Ocean, southern and eastern Africa, s ...
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Hypseleotris galii
''Hypseleotris galii'', the firetail gudgeon, is a species of gudgeon
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Hypseleotris guentheri
''Hypseleotris'' is a genus of fishes in the family Eleotridae. Most are from fresh water in Australia and New Guinea, but species in fresh and brackish water are found around islands in the western Indian Ocean, southern and eastern Africa, s ...
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Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occupational surname. Bleeker is an old spelling of ''(linnen)bleker'' ("linen bleacher").Hypseleotris hotayensis
''Hypseleotris'' is a genus of fishes in the family Eleotridae. Most are from fresh water in Australia and New Guinea, but species in fresh and brackish water are found around islands in the western Indian Ocean, southern and eastern Africa, s ...
Hypseleotris kimberleyensis
''Hypseleotris kimberleyensis'', the Barnett River gudgeon, is a species of fish in the family Eleotridae endemic to Australia, where it is only known from the Barnett River system of Kimberley, Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly a ...
'' Hoese & G. R. Allen, 1982 (Barnett River gudgeon)
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Hypseleotris klunzingeri
The western carp gudgeon (''Hypseleotris klunzingeri'') is one of several carp gudgeon species. Carp gudgeons are very small perciform fish (similar in size, shape and colour) found in the Australian Murray-Darling River system, mainly in lowla ...
Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occupational surname. Bleeker is an old spelling of ''(linnen)bleker'' ("linen bleacher").Hypseleotris pangel'' Herre, 1927
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Hypseleotris regalis
The Prince Regent gudgeon (''Hypseleotris regalis'') is a species of fish in the family Eleotridae endemic to Australia
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