Dormitator latifrons (Richardson 1844)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Eleotridae
- genus
- Dormitator
- species
- Dormitator latifrons
description
Pacific Fat Sleeper or Spotted Sleeper. To 61 cm (2 ft) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Palos Verdes, southern California to Peru (Bussing 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); also Lake Merritt, San Francisco Bay area (Long 1996). Benthic; marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: to 2 m (7 ft) or more (Robertson and Allen 2002).