Pterocryptis

Pterocryptis
Pterocryptis wynaadensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Siluridae
Genus: Pterocryptis
Peters, 1861
Type species
Pterocryptis gangelica
Peters, 1861
Species

See text.

Synonyms

Apodoglanis
Fowler, 1905
Hito
Herre, 1924
Hitoichthys
Herre 1924
Penesilurus
Herre, 1924
Herklotsella
Herre, 1933

Pterocryptis is a genus of sheatfish. These fish are medium-sized catfishes usually found in fast flowing mountain streams throughout India, southern China and Southeast Asia.[1] There are two cavefish species in the genus, P. buccata and P. cucphuongensis.[2]

Species

There are currently 17 recognized species in this genus:[3]

  • Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1933)
  • Pterocryptis barakensis Vishwanath & Nebeshwar Sharma, 2006
  • Pterocryptis berdmorei (Blyth, 1860)
  • Pterocryptis bokorensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1937)
  • Pterocryptis buccata Ng & Kottelat, 1998 (Cave sheatfish)
  • Pterocryptis burmanensis (Thant, 1966)
  • Pterocryptis cochinchinensis (Valenciennes, 1840)
  • Pterocryptis crenula Ng & Freyhof, 2001
  • Pterocryptis cucphuongensis (Mai, 1978)
  • Pterocryptis furnessi (Fowler, 1905)
  • Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861
  • Pterocryptis indicus (Datta, Barman & Jayaram, 1987)
  • Pterocryptis inusitata Ng, 1999
  • Pterocryptis taytayensis (Herre, 1924)
  • Pterocryptis torrentis (Kobayakawa, 1989)
  • Pterocryptis verecunda Ng & Freyhof, 2001
  • Pterocryptis wynaadensis (Day, 1873)

References

  1. ↑ Ng, Heok Hee; Chan, Bosco P.-L. (2005). "Revalidation and redescription of Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1933), a catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from southern China". Zootaxa. 1060: 51–64.
  2. ↑ Romero, A., editor (2001). The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. ISBN 978-1402000768
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2014). Species of Pterocryptis in FishBase. July 2014 version.


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