Chinese sleeper

Chinese sleeper
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Odontobutidae
Genus:	Perccottus Dybowski, 1877
Species:	Chinese sleeper
Binomial name
Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877
Synonyms
Eleotris dybowskii Herzenstein & Warpachowski, 1887 Eleotris pleskei Warpachowski, 1887 Perccottus glehni Dybowski, 1877 Percottus glehni Dybowski, 1877 Percottus pleskei (Warpachowski, 1888)

Chinese sleeper, or Amur sleeper (Perccottus glenii) is a freshwater fish of monotypic genus Perccottus, Odontobutidae family. The fish name is sometime misspelled as glehni or glenhi in biological literature.

Originally it was native to Amur River basin. Later it was introduced to fresh water rivers of the whole northern Eurasia including much of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, north-east of China and northeast of Korea.

It prefers to live in stagnant rivers and bogs. It eats animals, including other young fish and gnatworms.

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