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Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Eleotridae (Bully sleepers) > Eleotrinae
Etymology: Leptophilypnus: Greek, leptos = thin + Greek, phile = that likes + Greek, hypnos = sleep (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: Meek & Hildebrand.

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Brackish; demersal. Tropical

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Western Central Atlantic: Honduras to Panama.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 6.4 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 50190)

An estuarine species reported from muddy brackish creek on the Atlantic versant of Panama in the Canal zone. Those collected from Tortuguero Lagoon estuary were from open shallow bays, 0.6 m or less in depth, with bottom varying from open to having filamentous algae and some submerged and floating vegetation, and from narrow shorelines (steep slope and few shallows) with much emergent, submerged and floating vegetation (Ref. 57711).

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Thacker, C.E., F. Pezold and R.D. Suttkus, 2006. Redescription of the dwarf neotropical eleotrid genus Leptophilypnus (Teleostei: Gobioidei), including a new species and comments on Microphilypnus. Copeia 2006(3):489-499. (Ref. 57711)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 126983)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 06 February 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Leptophilypnus fluviatilis Meek & Hildebrand, 1916