FreshwaterBrackishSaltwater
Dusky sleeper
Eleotris fusca
Eleotridae
Facts
Characteristics
- Length
- Up to 26 cm
- Body shape
- Elongated
Care
- Group
- Missing
- Smallest aquarium
- 422 liters
- Diet
- Missing
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Behavior
Water values
Smallest tank
Range
Native
Lives wild in American Samoa, Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Comoros, Cook Islands, and 32 more countries.
More about the species
Description
Adults inhabit lagoons, estuaries and freshwater. They occur in the lower reaches of freshwater streams, usually on mud bottoms. Juveniles are found mainly among mangrove roots in the more saline areas of lagoons and estuaries. Carnivorous. Marketed fresh.
Other names
Other scientific names
- Culius fuscus
- Culius niger
- Eleotris cavifrons
- Eleotris fornasini
- Eleotris fornasinii
- Eleotris fuscus
In other languages
- Valkojuovatorkkuja
- Broadhead sleeper, Brown gudgeon, Brown sleeper, Brown spine-cheek gudgeon, Brown Spinecheek Gudgeon, Freshwater gudgeon, Gobi, Tetard
Articles
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