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Seychelles
Only species with a profile on Seriously Fish are counted, whether native or introduced.
- Species
- 2
- Families
- 2
- Genera
- 2
- Found only here
- 1
- Photographed
- 2 of 2
Shares its fishes withspecies recorded in both
Found only here1
1 of the species on this page are recorded in Seychelles and in no other country. This is not the same as being endemic.
Butis butisCrazy Fish
Butidae · Hamilton, 1822
The crazy fish, Butis butis, is a flathead gudgeon of coastal and brackish waters across the Indo-Pacific, from eastern Africa to Fiji. The most commonly traded member of the genus, it has many other names, including crocodile fish, duckbill sleeper and upside-down sleeper. A nocturnal ambush predator, it often swims upside-down, and it is territorial and not sociable with conspecifics, so is best kept singly.
Pachypanchax playfairiiPlayfair's Panchax
Aplocheilidae · Günther, 1866
Playfair's panchax, Pachypanchax playfairii, is a killifish from forest streams in the granitic Seychelles, and has been translocated to Zanzibar. The only purely freshwater fish native to the Seychelles, it is known there from Mahé, Praslin, Silhouette and La Digue. Raised scales on the back of most adult males and a black ocellus in the dorsal-fin of females tell it apart from all congeners.