Biology:Butidae
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| Butis butis | |
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| Ophiocara porocephala | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Butidae Bleeker, 1874[1] |
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.[2] 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 the Eloetridae as formerly classified was paraphyletic and that its subfamilies should be raised to the status of families.[3]
The species in the Butidae are largely restricted to tropical and sub-tropical waters of Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania. They are especially diverse in New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand where they can be important components of brackish and freshwater ecosystems.[3] They are mostly quite small species but the marbled goby (Oxyeleotris marmorata) is a freshwater species of Buitdae from Southeast Asia that can grow to 65 cm (25.6 in) long and is an important food fish.[4][5]
Genera
The following genera are classified within the family Butidae:[6]
- Bostrychus Lacépède, 1801
- Butis Bleeker, 1856
- Incara Visweswara Rao, 1971
- Kribia Herre, 1946
- Odonteleotris Gill, 1863
- Ophiocara Gill, 1863
- Oxyeleotris Bleeker, 1874
- Parviparma Herre, 1927
- Pogoneleotris Bleeker, 1875
- Prionobutis Bleeker, 1874
References
- ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer; Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480.
- ↑ "Classification of fishes from Fishes of the World 5th Edition". 2016. https://81a86d48-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/fotw5th/home/FotW5Classification.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7crnPmFXqnJpmRlpzLSdqx8GmsCmFXNBj8fAYuPuhFBvCfHo4TahH7eM_yruTzHI27nZRRWWJPRR7U9HopPBRlQK8iW_73EG6FVke6aUjl20fgZXiChDnl-xqMl4L2I-wHwV7D4qcPAQI1vSV6YfFYAm5qb7t5w0rJ_ierkZ91ezIvpQ_5f0kSbFiUx-YYGXP1US1GbwSf-G7sRx4XEikm73VqVA0idVnlkaFjzI53bkuIQY0OQ%3D&attredirects=0. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Christine Thacker (2011). "Chapter 1.5 Systematics of Butidae and Eleotridae". The Biology of Gobies. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1578084364. https://nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/ichthyology/pdf/ThackerButidaeEleotridae2011.pdf. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
- ↑ Riehl, R. & Baensch, H.A. (1996): Aquarium Atlas (Volume 1). Voyageur Press. p. 992. ISBN:978-3-88244-050-8
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Oxyeleotris marmorata" in FishBase. September 2017 version.
- ↑ "Butinae Bleeker, 1874". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. 2015. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267091.
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