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Butis
Butis is a genus of fishes in the family Butidae found in fresh, brackish, and marine waters from the Indian Ocean coast of Africa through Southeast Asia to the Pacific islands and Australia.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 10 known species

Crimsontip Gudgeon
speciesButis butis

Crested Gudgeon
speciesButis koilomatodon

Butis humeralis
speciesButis humeralis

Olive flathead-gudgeon
speciesButis amboinensis

Butis gymnopomus
speciesButis gymnopomus

Butis audebertae
speciesButis audebertae

Butis abdoui
speciesButis abdoui
Butis huberti
speciesButis huberti
Butis delagoensis
speciesButis delagoensis
Butis prismaticus
speciesButis prismaticus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 87135.