Ophiocara

Ophiocara is a genus of fishes in the family Butidae native to tropical waters of Indo-Pacific.

Ophiocara
Ophiocara porocephala
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Butidae
Genus: Ophiocara
T. N. Gill, 1863
Type species
Eleotris ophicephalus
Valenciennes, 1837

Species

The recognized species in this genus are:[1]

  • Ophiocara macrolepidota (Bloch, 1792)
  • Ophiocara porocephala (Valenciennes, 1837) (northern mud gudgeon)

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Ophiocara in FishBase. April 2013 version.


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