Shuttles hoppfish

Species of fish

Shuttles hoppfish

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Gobiiformes
Family:  | Oxudercidae
Genus:  | Periophthalmus
Species:  |

P. modestus

Binomial name
Periophthalmus modestus

Cantor, 1842

Synonyms

* Apocryptes cantonensis Osbeck, 1757

The shuttles hoppfish or shuttles mudskipper (Periophthalmus modestus) is a species of mudskippers native to fresh, marine and brackish waters of the northwestern Pacific Ocean from Vietnam to Korea and Japan. This species occurs in muddy estuaries, tidal flats and swamps and marshes and is capable of remaining out of the water for up to 60 hours so long as it is kept moist. This species can reach a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) TL. This species can also be found in the aquarium trade and is also used in traditional Chinese medicine.[1]

Common places in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia and other places of mangrove wetlands.

## References

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1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Periophthalmus modestus". FishBase. June 2013 version.

Taxon identifiers

Periophthalmus modestus|

* Wikidata: Q1328443
* Wikispecies: Periophthalmus modestus
* BOLD: 454440
* CoL: 4F2TY
* FishBase: 54509
* GBIF: 2376979
* iNaturalist: 354394
* IRMNG: 10910615
* ITIS: 637848
* NCBI: 146921
* Observation.org: 199556
* OBIS: 209267
* Open Tree of Life: 736100
* WoRMS: 209267
* ZooBank: 34E93493-BC6B-4580-9D92-42F2ECF63839

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