Freshwater sleeper

{{Short description|Family of ray-finned fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Odontobutis obscura1.jpg

| image_caption = Odontobutis obscura

| taxon = Odontobutidae

| display_parents = 2

| authority = Hoese & A. C. Gill, 1993

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision_ref = {{FishBase family | family = Odontobutidae| month = February | year = 2014}}

| subdivision = See text

}}

Freshwater sleepers are a small family, the Odontobutidae, of gobiiform ray-finned fishes native to freshwater rivers flowing into the South China Sea and the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The family consists of about 22 species in six genera.