FreshwaterBrackishSaltwater
Northern mud gudgeon
Ophiocara porocephala
Butidae
Facts
Characteristics
- Length
- Up to 34 cm
- Body shape
- Streamlined
Care
- Group
- Missing
- Smallest aquarium
- 943 liters
- Diet
- Missing
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Behavior
- Temperament
- Semi-aggressive
- Swims
- Missing
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Water values
Smallest tank
943 liters204 × 68 × 68 cm · For one fish
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Try other measures in the appNative
Lives wild in Australia, Bangladesh, Comoros, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, and 8 more countries.
More about the species
About the species
Adults occur in brackish estuaries, river mouths and freshwater creeks.
Source: FishBase
Other names
Other scientific names
- Agonostoma darwiniense
- Eleotris limosus
- Eleotris litoralis
- Eleotris madagascariensis
- Eleotris porocephala
- Eleotris porocephalus
In other languages
- Käärmeenpäätorkkuja
- Bumblebee, Flathead sleeper, Mullet gudgeon, Spangled gudgeon, Spangled sleeper, Tittle
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