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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 analyses have demonstrated that the Butidae are a sister clade to the clade containing the families Gobiidae and Gobionellidae and that the Eleotridae is a sister to both of these clades. This means that...
11 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 57 known species
Oxyeleotris
genusOxyeleotris
Ophiocara
genusOphiocara
Butis
genusButis
Bostrychus
genusBostrychus
Kribia
genusKribia
Prionobutis
genusPrionobutis
Odonteleotris
genusOdonteleotris
Incara
genusIncara
Parviparma
genusParviparma
Pogoneleotris
genusPogoneleotris
Paloa
genusPaloa
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1630716.