Dormitator

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = FMIB 38175 Dormitator maculatus (Bloch).jpeg

| image_caption = Dormitator maculatus

| taxon = Dormitator

| authority = T. N. Gill, 1861

| type_species = Eleotris somnulentus

| type_species_authority = Girard, 1858{{Cof record|genid=2759|title=Dormitator|access-date=24 July 2018}}

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Dormitator is a genus of fishes in the family Eleotridae found in marine, fresh and brackish waters on either side of the Atlantic Ocean, with one species occurring along the Pacific coast of the Americas.{{cite journal | author1 =Galván-Quesada, S. | author2 = Doadrio, I. | author3 = Alda, F. | author4 = Perdices, A. | author5 = Reina, R.G. | author6 = García Varela, M. | author7 = Hernández, N. | author8 = Mendoza, A.C. | author9 = Bermingham, E. | author10 = Domínguez-Domínguez, O. | display-authors = 3 | year = 2016 | title = Molecular Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Amphidromous Fish Genus Dormitator Gill 1861 (Teleostei: Eleotridae) | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 11 | issue = 4 | page = e0153538 | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0153538| pmid = 27074006 | pmc = 4830628 | bibcode = 2016PLoSO..1153538G | doi-access = free }}