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: Heteropneustidae
Genus: Heteropneustes
Species: H. fossilis – H. kemratensis – H. longipectoralis – H. microps – H. nani
Name
Heteropneustes Müller, 1840: 115
Type species: Silurus fossilis ♂ Bloch, 1794. Type by monotypy.
Synonyms
Clarisilurus Fowler, 1937:133
Saccobranchus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1840: 399
References
Müller, J. 1840: Ueber Nebenkiemen und Wundernetze. Erläuterungen zu der Abhandlunf über die Nebenkiemen. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiolgie und Wissenschaftliche Medicin, in Verbindung mit Meheren Gelehrten Herausgegeben, 1: 101–142.
Ferraris, C.J., Jr. 2007: Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa, 1418: 1–628.
Vernacular names
English: Airsac Catfishes
ไทย: ปลาจีด, ปลาเมง
Heteropneustes is a genus of catfishes, the airsac catfishes, native to Asia. This genus is monotypic in the family Heteropneustidae.
Their bodies are elongated and compressed with greatly depressed heads. They have long air sacs that serve as lungs that extend from the gill chamber. Their dorsal fins are short and have no spine. Their pectoral fins have an associated venom gland, so the fish are considered dangerous.[1] They are oviparous; distinct pairing is possible.
Species
Up to six species in this genus are recognized:[2][3]
Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch, 1794) (stinging catfish)
Heteropneustes fuscus Plamoottil, 2021[4] (Travancore black stinging catfish)
Heteropneustes kemratensis (Fowler, 1937)
Heteropneustes longipectoralis Rema Devi & Raghunathan, 1999
Heteropneustes nani Hossain, Sarker, Sharifuzzaman & Chowdhury, 2013[5]
Heteropneustes microps (Günther, 1864)
FishBase does not list H. fuscus[2] while the Catalog of Fishes considers H. microps a synonym of H. fossilis.[3]
References
Nelson, J. S. (2006). Fishes of the World (4 ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 180–181. ISBN 978-0-471-25031-9.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Heteropneustes". FishBase. August 2022 version.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Heteropneustes". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
Plamoottil, Mathews (2021). "Heteropneustes fuscus (Siluriformes: Heteropneustidae), a new catfish species from Kerala, India". Biodiversitas. 23 (1): 87–98. doi:10.13057/biodiv/d230112.
Hossain, M.S.; Sarker, S.; Sharifuzzaman, S.M.; Chowdhury, S.R. (2013). "New species of stinging catfish Heteropneustes nani (Siluriformes: Heteropneustidae) from Noakhali, Bangladesh" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 63 (3): 259–267.
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