Butis butis – Crazy Fish — Seriously Fish | 水產百科網

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Order: Perciformes Family: Eleotridae[1][2]

Type locality is ‘Ganges River, below Calcutta, India’, but this species is very widely-distributed throughout much of the Indo-Pacific with records existing from coastal waters of eastern and southern Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, the Mascarene Islands, the Seychelles, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, the Phillipines, Palau, Papau New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, and Fiji.

Generally inhabits coastal, brackish environments such as estuaries, lagoons, and mangroves but also known to penetrate tidal freshwater rivers to an extent. It tends to be associated with submerged vegetation or woody structures such as mangrove roots and is mostly demersal with substrates tending to be composed of mud or sand.

100 – 120 mm.

A single s...