Glyptothorax

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Siluriformes

Familia: Sisoridae
Subfamilia: Glyptosterninae
Tribus: Glyptothoracini
Genus: Glyptothorax
Species (89): G. anamalaiensis – G. annandalei – G. armeniacus – G. ater – G. botius – G. brevipinnis – G. buchanani – G. burmanicus – G. callopterus – G. caudimaculatus – G. cavia – G. chimtuipuiensis – G. chindwinica – G. churamanii – G. clavatus – G. conirostre – G. coracinus – G. cous – G. davissinghi – G. deqinensis – G. dikrongensis – G. dorsalis – G. elankadensis – G. exodon – G. filicatus – G. fokiensis – G. forabilis – G. fucatus – G. fuscus – G. garhwali – G. gopii – G. gracilis – G. granosus – G. granulus – G. hainanensis – G. heokheei – G. honghensis – G. horai – G. housei – G. igniculus – G. indicus – G. interspinalum – G. jalalensis – G. jayarami – G. kashmirensis – G. ketambe – G. kurdstanicus – G. laak – G. lampris – G. lanceatus – G. laosensis – G. lonah – G. longicauda – G. longjiangensis – G. maceriatus – G. macromaculatus – G. madraspatanum – G. major – G. malabarensis – G. manipurensis – G. mibangi – G. minimaculatus – G. naziri – G. nelsoni – G. ngapang – G. nieuwenhuisi – G. obliquimaculatus – G. pallozonum – G. panda – G. pantherinus – G. pasighatensis – G. pectinopterus – G. platypogon – G. platypogonides – G. poonaensis – G. porrectus – G. prashadi – G. punjabensis – G. quadriocellatus – G. radiolus – G. rugimentum – G. saisii – G. schmidti – G. scrobiculus – G. siamensis – G. silviae – G. sinensis – G. steindachneri – G. stocki – G. strabonis – G. striatus – G. sufii – G. telchitta – G. trewavasae – G. trilineatus – G. ventrolineatus – G. verrucosus – G. zanaensis – G. zhujiangensis
Name

Glyptothorax Blyth, 1860
Gender: masculine
Type species: Glyptosternon striatus McClelland, 1842
Fixation: subsequent designation by Bleeker (1863: 105)

Synonyms

Aglyptosternon Bleeker, 1862
Objective synonym: Euclyptosternum Günther, 1864
Pteroglanis Fowler, 1934
Objective synonym: Pteropsoglanis Fowler, 1934
Sundagagata Boeseman, 1966
Paraglyptothorax Li, 1986
Superglyptothorax Li, 1986

References

Blyth, E. 1860. Report on some fishes received chiefly from the Sitang River and its tributary streams, Tenasserim Provinces. Journal of the asiatic Society of Bengal 29(2): 138–174. (PDF)Reference page.
Anganthoibi, N.; Vishwanath, W. 2010: Glyptothorax chimtuipuiensis, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Koladyne basin, India. Zootaxa, 2628: 56–62. Preview
Anganthoibi, N. & Vishwanath, W. 2010: Two new species of Glyptothorax from the Koladyne basin, Mizoram, India (Teleostei: Sisoridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 21 (4): 323–330. Abstract & excerpt
Darshan, A., Dutta, R., Kachari, A., Gogoi, B. & Das, D.N. 2015: Glyptothorax mibangi, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Tisa River, Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India. Zootaxa 3962(1): 114–122. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3962.1.5. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Gopi, K.C. 2010: Glyptothorax malabarensis, a new catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India. Zootaxa, 2528: 53–60. Preview
Ng, H.H. 2005: Glyptothorax botius (Hamilton, 1822), a valid species of catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from northeast India, with notes on the identity of G. telchitta (Hamilton, 1822). Zootaxa, 930: 1–19. Abstract & excerpt PDF
Kosygin, L., Das, U., Singh, P. & Chowdhury, B.R. 2019. Glyptothorax gopii, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Mizoram, north-eastern India. Zootaxa 4652(3): 568–578. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.12 Paywall Reference page.
Ng, H.H.; Freyhof, J. 2008: Two new species of Glyptothorax (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from central Vietnam. Zootaxa, 1873: 11–25. Abstract & excerpt
Ng, H.H.; Hadiaty, R.K. 2009: Glyptothorax ketambe, a new catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from northern Sumatra. Zootaxa, 2085: 61–68. Abstract & excerpt
Ng, H.H.; Jiang, W.-S.; Chen, X.-Y. 2012: Glyptothorax lanceatus, a new species of sisorid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from southwestern China. Zootaxa, 3250: 54–62. Preview
Ng, H.H.; Kottelat, M. 2008: Glyptothorax rugimentum, a new species of catfish from Myanmar and Western Thailand (Teleostei: Sisoridae). Raffles bulletin of zoology, 56 (1): 129–134. PDF
Ng, H.H. & Kottelat, M. 2017. The Glyptothorax of the Bolaven Plateau, Laos (Teleostei: Sisoridae): new and endangered. Zootaxa 4238(3): 406–416. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.3.7 Reference page.
Ng, H.H.; Rachmatika, I. 2005: Glyptothorax exodon, a new species of rheophilic catfish from Borneo (Teleostei: Sisoridae). Raffles bulletin of zoology, 53 (2): 251–255. PDF
Ng, H.H.; Rainboth, W.J. 2008: Glyptothorax coracinus, a new species of hillstream catfish from Cambodia (Teleostei: Sisoridae). Zootaxa, 1839: 60–68. Abstract & excerpt
Thomson, A.W.; Page, L.M. 2006: Genera of the Asian catfish families Sisoridae and Erethistidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes). Zootaxa, 1345: 1–96. Abstract & excerpt PDF
Vishwanath, W. & Linthoingambi, I. 2006. A new sisorid catfish of the genus Glyptothorax Blyth from Manipur, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 102(2) [2005]: 201–203. BHL Reference page.
Vishwanath, W. & Linthoingambi, I. 2007. Fishes of the genus Glyptothorax Blyth (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Manipur, India, with description of three new species. Zoos' Print Journal 22(3): 2617–2626. PDF download Reference page.

Glyptothorax is a genus of catfishes order Siluriformes of the family Sisoridae. It is the most species-rich and widely distributed genus in the family with new species being discovered on a regular basis.[1] These species are distributed in the Black Sea basin, northern Turkey, south and east to the Yangtze River drainage in China and south throughout Indo-China to Java, Indonesia.[2] They are found in Asia Minor (in the Tigris and Euphrates River drainages) and southwards to Southeast Asia. The genus is very diverse in the Indian subcontinent.[3] Southeast Asian species tend to have restricted distributions.[4]
Description

This genus is easily distinguished from other sisorids by having an adhesive apparatus on the thorax with grooves parallel or oblique to the longitudinal axis of the body, as opposed to grooves transverse to the longitudinal axis of body or the thoracic adhesive apparatus entirely absent.[2] The dorsal fin and pectoral fins have strong spines. The dorsal fin spine is smooth or serrate on the front edge and smooth or finely serrated on the posterior edge. The pectoral fin spine is serrated on the front edge. The head is small and depressed and the snout is conical. The body is elongate, from moderately to greatly depressed. The skin is either smooth or tuberculate. The eyes are small and dorsally placed. The lips are thick, fleshy and often papillate. The maxillary barbels have a well-developed membrane and a soft base. The gill openings are wide. The paired fins are plaited and modified to form an adhesive apparatus in some species of Glyptothorax.[2]
Ecology

Like other sisorids, these fish are rheophilic, that is they inhabit fast-flowing streams, where they are adapted to live by using the adhesive apparatus on the underside to attach themselves to rocks and prevent being washed away.[4]
Species

There are currently 110 recognized species in this genus:[1]

Glyptothorax alaknandi Tilak, 1969
Glyptothorax alidaeii Mousavi-Sabet, Eagderi, Vatandoust and Freyhof, 2021[5]
Glyptothorax anamalaiensis Silas, 1952
Glyptothorax annandalei Hora, 1923
Glyptothorax armeniacus (L. S. Berg, 1918) (Armenian mountain catfish)
Glyptothorax ater Anganthoibi & Vishwanath, 2011
Glyptothorax botius (F. Hamilton, 1822)
Glyptothorax brevipinnis Hora, 1923
Glyptothorax buchanani H. M. Smith, 1945
Glyptothorax burmanicus Prashad & Mukerji, 1929
Glyptothorax callopterus H. M. Smith, 1945
Glyptothorax caudimaculatus Anganthoibi & Vishwanath, 2011
Glyptothorax cavia (F. Hamilton, 1822)
Glyptothorax chimtuipuiensis Anganthoibi & Vishwanath, 2010
Glyptothorax chindwinica Vishwanath & Linthoingambi, 2007
Glyptothorax churamanii Rameshori & Vishwanath, 2012[6]
Glyptothorax clavatus Rameshori & Vishwanath, 2014[7]
Glyptothorax conirostris (Steindachner, 1867)
Glyptothorax coracinus H. H. Ng & Rainboth, 2008
Glyptothorax cous (Linnaeus, 1766)
Glyptothorax davissinghi Manimekalan & H. S. Das, 1998
Glyptothorax decussatus H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2016
Glyptothorax deqinensis T. P. Mo & X. L. Chu, 1986
Glyptothorax dikrongensis Tamang & Chaudhry, 2011
Glyptothorax dorsalis Vinciguerra, 1890
Glyptothorax elankadensis Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013 (Travancore rock catfish) [8]
Glyptothorax exodon H. H. Ng & Rachmatika, 2005[4]
Glyptothorax filicatus H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2008
Glyptothorax fokiensis (Rendahl (de), 1925)
Glyptothorax forabilis H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2017
Glyptothorax fucatus W. S. Jiang, H. H. Ng, J. X. Yang & X. Y. Chen, 2012[9]
Glyptothorax fuscus Fowler, 1934
Glyptothorax galaxias, Mousavi-Sabet & Eagderi & Vatandoust & Freyhof, 2021[10]
Glyptothorax garhwali Tilak, 1969
Glyptothorax gracilis (Günther, 1864)
Glyptothorax granosus W. S. Jiang, H. H. Ng, J. X. Yang & X. Y. Chen, 2012[9]
Glyptothorax granulus Vishwanath & Linthoingambi, 2007
Glyptothorax hainanensis (Nichols & C. H. Pope, 1927)
Glyptothorax honghensis S. S. Li, 1984
Glyptothorax horai (Fowler, 1934)
Glyptothorax hosseinpanahii, Mousavi-Sabet & Eagderi & Vatandoust & Freyhof, 2021[11]
Glyptothorax housei Herre, 1942
Glyptothorax igniculus H. H. Ng & S. O. Kullander, 2013[12]
Glyptothorax indicus Talwar, 1991
Glyptothorax interspinalum (Đ. Y. Mai, 1978)
Glyptothorax jalalensis Balon (pl) & K. Hensel, 1970
Glyptothorax jayarami Rameshori & Vishwanath, 2012[13]
Glyptothorax kashmirensis Hora, 1923
Glyptothorax keluk H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2016
Glyptothorax ketambe H. H. Ng & Hadiaty, 2009
Glyptothorax kudremukhensis K. C. Gopi, 2007
Glyptothorax kurdistanicus (L. S. Berg, 1931)
Glyptothorax laak (Popta, 1904)
Glyptothorax lampris Fowler, 1934
Glyptothorax lanceatus H. H. Ng, W. S. Jiang & X. Y. Chen, 2012[14]
Glyptothorax laosensis Fowler, 1934
Glyptothorax lonah (Sykes, 1839)
Glyptothorax longicauda S. S. Li, 1984
Glyptothorax longinema S. S. Li, 1984
Glyptothorax longjiangensis T. P. Mo & X. L. Chu, 1986
Glyptothorax maceriatus H. H. Ng & Lalramliana, 2012[15]
Glyptothorax macromaculatus S. S. Li, 1984
Glyptothorax madraspatanus (F. Day, 1873)
Glyptothorax major (Boulenger, 1894)
Glyptothorax malabarensis K. C. Gopi, 2010
Glyptothorax manipurensis Menon, 1955
Glyptothorax mibangi Darshan, Dutta, Kachari, Gogoi & D. N. Das, 2015[16]
Glyptothorax minimaculatus S. S. Li, 1984
Glyptothorax naziri Mirza & I. U. Naik, 1969
Glyptothorax nelsoni Ganguly, N. C. Datta & S. Sen, 1972
Glyptothorax ngapang Vishwanath & Linthoingambi, 2007
Glyptothorax nieuwenhuisi (Vaillant, 1902)
Glyptothorax obliquimaculatus W. S. Jiang, X. Y. Chen & J. X. Yang, 2010
Glyptothorax obscurus S. S. Li, 1984)
Glyptothorax pallens Mousavi-Sabet, Eagderi, Vatandoust & Freyhof, 2021
Glyptothorax pallozonus (S. Y. Lin, 1934)
Glyptothorax panda Ferraris & Britz, 2005
Glyptothorax pantherinus Anganthoibi & Vishwanath, 2013[17]
Glyptothorax pasighatensis Arunkumar, 2016[18]
Glyptothorax pectinopterus (McClelland, 1842) (River catfish)
Glyptothorax pedunculatus Roberts, 2021[19]
Glyptothorax pictus H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2016
Glyptothorax platypogon Valenciennes, 1840
Glyptothorax platypogonides (Bleeker, 1855)
Glyptothorax plectilis H. H. Ng & Hadiaty, 2008
Glyptothorax poonaensis Hora, 1938
Glyptothorax porrectus H. H. Ng & Kottelat
Glyptothorax prashadi Mukerji, 1932
Glyptothorax punjabensis Mirza & Kashmiri, 1971
Glyptothorax quadriocellatus (Đ. Y. Mai, 1978)
Glyptothorax radiolus H. H. Ng & Lalramliana, 2013[20]
Glyptothorax robustus (Boeseman, 1966)
Glyptothorax rugimentum H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2008
Glyptothorax rupiri (L. Kosygin, P. Singh & S. Rath, 2021)
Glyptothorax saisii (J. T. Jenkins, 1910)
Glyptothorax sardashtensis Jokar, Kamangar, Ghaderi & Freyhof 2023[21]
Glyptothorax schmidti (Volz, 1904)
Glyptothorax scrobiculus H. H. Ng & Lalramliana, 2012[22]
Glyptothorax senapatiensis Premananda, Kosygin & Saidullah, 2015[23]
Glyptothorax shapuri Mousavi-Sabet, Eagderi, Vatandoust, & Freyhof 2021
Glyptothorax siamensis Hora, 1923
Glyptothorax silviae Coad, 1981
Glyptothorax sinensis (Regan, 1908)
Glyptothorax steindachneri (Pietschmann, 1913) (Steindachner’s catfish)
Glyptothorax stibaros H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2016
Glyptothorax stocki Mirza & Nijssen, 1978
Glyptothorax stolickae (Steindachner, 1867)
Glyptothorax strabonis H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2008
Glyptothorax striatus (McClelland, 1842)
Glyptothorax sufii K. Asghar Bashir & Mirza, 1975
Glyptothorax sykesi (F. Day, 1873)
Glyptothorax telchitta (Hamilton, 1822)
Glyptothorax trewavasae Hora, 1938
Glyptothorax trilineatus Blyth, 1860 (Three-lined catfish)
Glyptothorax vatandousti Jouladeh-Roudbar, Ghanavi & Freyhof 2023[24]
Glyptothorax ventrolineatus Vishwanath & Linthoingambi, 2006
Glyptothorax verrucosus Rameshori & Vishwanath, 2012[25]
Glyptothorax zanaensis X. W. Wu, M. J. He & X. L. Chu, 1981
Glyptothorax zhujiangensis Y. H. Lin, 2003

References
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