Pterocryptis
| Pterocryptis | |
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| 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 | |
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See text. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Apodoglanis | |
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]
Species
There are currently 17 recognized species in this genus: [2]
- 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2014). Species of Pterocryptis in FishBase. July 2014 version.
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