sleepy cod

Oxyeleotris lineolata

Forty Five Centimeters Eleotrid Fish of Australian Waters

Tropical
Transcontinental
Freshwater fish
Oceania
Fusiform
Medium
Tropical fish

The sleepy cod (Oxyeleotris lineolata) is a medium-sized fish in the family Butidae, native to tropical fresh waters of northern Australia and questionably from New Guinea. It is a member of the order Perciformes, thus is unrelated to the true cods in the order Gadiformes. Neither are they closely related to the Australian freshwater cods such as the Murray cod of the genus Maccullochella.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Gobies and Allies
Family: Eleotridae
Genus: Oxyeleotris
Maximum length: 45 cm
Water: Freshwater
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: Oceania: Northern Australia and central-southern New Guinea, but there are no precise locality records from New Guinea and its occurrence there needs confirmation.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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