''Odontamblyopus rubicundus'' is a species of
eel goby
Amblyopinae is a subfamily of elongated mud-dwelling gobies commonly called eel gobies or worm gobies; it has been regarded as a subfamily of the family Gobiidae, while the 5th edition ''Fishes of the World'' classifies it as a subfamily of th ...
native to
coast
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al waters and
estuaries
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from the east coast of
India
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to
Myanmar
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and
Bangladesh
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. This species can reach a length of
TL. It is of minor importance to local
commercial fisheries.
Habitats
This species found on freshwater and estuary in Bangladesh.They also found in Dakatia river and the Sundarbans of Bangladesh.
[Rahman AKA (1989) Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh, 1st edition, Zoological Society of Bangladesh, Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, p. 313.
]
References
Amblyopinae
Fish described in 1822
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