Air breathing of aquatic burrowdwelling eel goby
Odontamblyopus lacepedii is an eel goby that inhabits both coastal waters and intertidal zones in East Asia including Japan The fish excavates burrows in mudflats but unlike the sympatric amphibious mudskippers it does not emerge but stays in the burrows filled with hypoxic water during low tide Endoscopic observations of the field burrows demonstrated that the fish breathed air in the