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Chinese Sleeper

Perccottus glenii

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 66, February 49, March 77, April 121, May 174, June 190, July 203, August 175, September 128, October 96, November 52, December 41.
United States1,372
Alaska1,372
Russia873
Moscow279
Moscow Oblast134
Ukraine83
Chuvashia37
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast34
Kursk Oblast33
Tula Oblast32

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • AquaticLives primarily in waterFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassRay-finned Fishes · Actinopterygii
OrderGobies, cardinalfishes and allies · Gobiiformes
FamilyFreshwater Sleepers · Odontobutidae
GenusPerccottus

Sources

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Practise Chinese Sleeper with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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