Pterocryptis

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]

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

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 Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). Species of Pterocryptis in FishBase. July 2014 version.


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