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Scientific Name: Eleotris fusca (Forster, 1801)
English Name: Dusky sleeper
Local/Bangla Name: Vut bele (ভূত বেলে), Bele (বেলে), Nuna baila (নুনা বাইলা), Baila (বাইলা)
Labcode: F1611sb-09
Photo: Fishes of Australia
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Eleotridae
Description:
D1 VI; D2 I/8; P1 17; P2 I/5; A I/8. Color of head, body and fins dark brown; numerous dark horizontal lines on body. Body elongate and compressed; mouth oblique; maxilla extend to below middle of eye. Teeth villiform. Caudal fin rounded. Scales of body ctenoid posteriorly and cycloid anteriorly; head scaled above between and behind eye, on cheeks and opercles; snout and below eye naked.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Inhabit lagoons, estuaries and freshwater. They occur in the lower reaches of freshwater streams, usually on mud bottoms.
Environment:
Marine, Freshwater, Brackish; (Demersal; amphidromous)
Other References:
Hussain MM (1970) The Marine and Estuarine Fishes of North East part of the Bay of
Rahman AKA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondoker M (2009) Encyclopedia of flora and fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 24. Marine Fishes. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 485 p.
Hossain MS, Chowdhury SR, Sharifuzzaman SM , Islam MM, Hasan J, Haque MA , Ali MZ, Hoq ME, Mahmud Y. Marine Fishes of Bangladesh (2020) Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute and Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Chattogram, 512pp.
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