Ophiocara
Appearance
Ophiocara | |
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Ophiocara porocephala | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gobiiformes |
Family: | Butidae |
Genus: | Ophiocara T. N. Gill, 1863 |
Type species | |
Eleotris ophicephalus Valenciennes, 1837
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Ophiocara is a genus of fishes in the family Butidae native to tropical waters of Indo-Pacific.
Species
[edit]The recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Ophiocara gigas Kobayashi and Sato, 2023
- Ophiocara macrolepidota (Bloch, 1792)
- Ophiocara macrostoma Kobayashi and Sato, 2023
- Ophiocara porocephala (Valenciennes, 1837) (northern mud gudgeon)
- Ophiocara ophicephalus (Valenciennes, 1837) (spangled gudgeon, bumblebee, mullet gudgeon)
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ophiocara". FishBase. April 2013 version.