Fat sleeper
Dormitator maculatus
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The fat sleeper from the American western Atlantic, from North Carolina to southeastern Brazil, in fresh and brackish water.
- Scientific name
- Dormitator maculatus
- Family
- Eleotridae
Fact sheet
General
- Water
- Brackish
- Group
- Fish
Taxonomy
- Family
- Eleotridae
- Order
- Gobiiformes
- Synonyms
- Batanga pleurops, Dormitator lineatus, Dormitator lophocephalus, Dormitator macrophthalmus, Dormitator microphthalmus, Dormitator pleurops, Eleotris grandisquama, Eleotris gundlachi, Eleotris mugiloides, Eleotris omocyaneus, Eleotris pleurops, Eleotris sima, Eleotris somnulentus, Gobiomorus maculatus, Sciaena maculata
Origin
- Native region
- América do Norte, América do Sul
Water
- Temperature
- 17–35 °C
Size and lifespan
- Adult size
- 70 cm
Behavior
- Swimming level
- Bottom
- Diet
- Herbivore
Conservation and trade
- IUCN status
- Least concern (LC)
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