dark sleeper

noun

dark sleeper

noun

1

Odontobutis obscura, a freshwater goby found in East Asia

In these species the eggs are defended most strongly, and feeding territories have also been reported for some of them (the dark sleeper and the common freshwater goby).1980, Jiro Kikkawa, Comparative Ecology, translation of original by Yoshiaki Ito, →ISBN, page 218:

Hypernyms: actinopterygian, perciform, goboid, odontobutid, sleeper, goby, fish

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