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Eleotris melanosoma Bleeker, 1853

Description

Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 8.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Gobiiformes

Family: Eleotridae

Genus: Eleotris

Species: Eleotris melanosoma Bleeker, 1853

Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • Pacific Ocean: restricted; including Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Is. and New Caledonia (Ref. 125668). African east coast to Transkei, South Africa (Ref. 52193).

    • Biology

    Adults inhabit brackish estuaries and medium to large-sized rivers (Ref. 2847, 12975, 48637, 44894); also in submerged bank vegetation of freshwater streams (Ref. 41184), marshes and rice fields (Ref. 54520). Usually found on mud bottoms (Ref. 44894); sometimes penetrating into freshwaters (Ref. 52193).

    Habitat

    freshwater

    Conservation Status

    Least Concern

    Threat to Humans

    Harmless