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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:
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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