''Bostrychus'' is a genus of fishes in the family

Butidae 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. Molecular phylogenetic ...

mostly native to eastern

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with one species being found along the

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coast of

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. While some of these species are restricted to freshwater, most can be found in marine, fresh and brackish waters.

Species

There are currently nine recognized species in this genus: * '' Bostrychus africanus'' (

Steindachner Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He published over 200 papers on fishes and over 50 papers on reptiles and amphibians. Steindachner descri ...

, 1879) * '' Bostrychus albooculata'' ( Herre, 1927) * '' Bostrychus aruensis'' M. C. W. Weber, 1911 (Island gudgeon) * '' Bostrychus expatria'' ( Herre, 1927) * '' Bostrychus microphthalmus'' Hoese & Kottelat, 2005 * '' Bostrychus scalaris'' Larson, 2008 (Ladder gudgeon) * '' Bostrychus sinensis'' Lacépède, 1801 (Four-eyed sleeper) * '' Bostrychus strigogenys'' Nichols, 1937 (Striped-cheek gudgeon) * '' Bostrychus zonatus'' M. C. W. Weber, 1907 (Barred gudgeon)

References

Butidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Gobiiformes-stub