Pterocryptis
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| Pterocryptis wynaadensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Siluridae |
| Genus: | Pterocryptis Peters, 1861 |
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| Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861
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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
[edit]There are currently 17 recognized species in this genus:[3]
- Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1934)
- Pterocryptis barakensis Vishwanath & Nebeshwar Sharma, 2006
- Pterocryptis berdmorei (Blyth, 1860)
- Pterocryptis bokorensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1937)
- Pterocryptis buccata H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 1998 (Cave sheatfish)
- Pterocryptis burmanensis (Thant, 1966)
- Pterocryptis cochinchinensis (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Pterocryptis crenula H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001
- Pterocryptis cucphuongensis (Mai, 1978)
- Pterocryptis furnessi (Fowler, 1905)
- Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861
- Pterocryptis indicus (Datta, Barman & Jayaram, 1987)
- Pterocryptis inusitata H. H. Ng, 1999
- Pterocryptis taytayensis (Herre, 1924)
- Pterocryptis torrentis (Kobayakawa, 1989)
- Pterocryptis verecunda H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001
- Pterocryptis wynaadensis (Day, 1873)
References
[edit]- ^ 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1060.1.4. S2CID 85786142.
- ^ Romero, A., editor (2001). The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. ISBN 978-1402000768
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Pterocryptis". FishBase. July 2014 version.
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