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: Bagridae
Genus: Mystus
Species (41): M. abbreviatus – M. alasensis – M. albolineatus – M. ankutta – M. armatus – M. armiger – M. atrifasciatus – M. bimaculatus – M. bleekeri – M. bocourti – M. canarensis – M. carcio – M. castaneus – M. catapogon – M. cavasius – M. chinensis – M. cineraceus – M. dibrugarensis – M. falcarius – M. gulio – M. heoki – M. horai – M. impluviatus – M. indicus – M. keletius – M. leucophasis – M. malabaricus – M. menoni – M. montanus – M. multiradiatus – M. mysticetus – M. ngasep – M. nigriceps – M. oculatus – M. pelusius – M. prabini – M. pulcher – M. punctifer – M. rhegma – M. rufescens – M. seengtee – M. singaringan – M. tengara – M. velifer – M. vittatus – M. wolffii – M. zeylanicus
Name
Mystus Scopoli (ex Gronow) 1777: 451
Type species: Bagrus halepensis Valenciennes, 1840. Type by subsequent designation. Type species established in Opinion 2209 (Case 3382) in 2008 as by subsequent designation of Jordan & Evermann, 1917.
Synonyms
Aspidobagrus Bleeker, 1862: 9
Heterobagrus Bleeker, 1864: 355
Hypselobagrus Bleeker, 1862: 10
Prajadhipokia Fowler, 1934: 338
References
Scopoli, J.A. 1777: Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. Prague: i-x + 1-506.
Darshan, A., Abujam, S., Kumar, R., Parhi, J., Singh, Y.S., Vishwanath, W., Das, D.N. & Pandey, P.K. 2019. Mystus prabini, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) from Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern, India. Zootaxa 4648(3): 511–522. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.3.6 Paywall Reference page.
Ng, H.H. & M. Kottelat 2009: A new species of Mystus from Myanmar (Siluriformes: Bagridae). Copeia, 2009(2): 245–250.
Taxon identifiers
Wikidata: Q1847148 BOLD: 151577 CoL: 63CDY GBIF: 2338463 iNaturalist: 90096 NCBI: 205131 Plazi: 662961B1-03FF-2B38-94F2-D099D2E1FF64 WoRMS: 269935 ZooBank: F3AF14D2-B652-45D3-ACDC-44D9E5FB6E93
Vernacular names
English: Mystus Catfish
தமிழ்: கெளிறு
ไทย: ปลากด, ปลาแขยง, ปลามังกง
Mystus is a genus of fish in the family Bagridae native to Asia.[1] Phylogenetic relationships within this genus are poorly understood, though it has been suggested that there are two major lineages.[2]
Species
There are currently 62 recognized species in this genus:
Mystus abbreviatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
Mystus alasensis H. H. Ng & Hadiaty, 2005
Mystus albolineatus T. R. Roberts, 1994
Mystus ankutta Pethiyagoda, N. K. A. Silva & Maduwage, 2008
Mystus armatus (F. Day, 1865) [3]
Mystus atrifasciatus Fowler, 1937
Mystus bimaculatus (Volz, 1904)
Mystus bleekeri (F. Day, 1877)
Mystus bocourti (Bleeker, 1864)
Mystus canarensis S. Grant, 1999
Mystus carcio (F. Hamilton, 1822) [4]
Mystus castaneus H. H. Ng, 2002
Mystus catapogon Plamoottil, 2016 [5]
Mystus cavasius (F. Hamilton, 1822)
Mystus cineraceus H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2009
Mystus dibrugarensis (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1913) [6]
Mystus falcarius Chakrabarty & H. H. Ng, 2005
Mystus gulio (F. Hamilton, 1822)
Mystus heoki Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013 [7]
Mystus horai Jayaram, 1954
Mystus impluviatus H. H. Ng, 2003
Mystus indicus Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013 [7]
Mystus irulu Vijayakrishnan and Praveenraj. 2022[8]
Mystus keletius (Valenciennes, 1840)
Mystus keralai Plamoottil, 2014 (Kerala Mystus)
Mystus leucophasis (Blyth, 1860)
Mystus malabaricus (Jerdon, 1849)
Mystus menoni Plamoottil, 2013 (Idukki Mystus)
Mystus montanus (Jerdon, 1849)
Mystus multiradiatus T. R. Roberts, 1992
Mystus mysticetus T. R. Roberts, 1992
Mystus nanus Sudasinghe, Pethiyagoda, Maduwage & Meegaskumbura, 2016 [9]
Mystus ngasep Darshan, Vishwanath, Mahanta & Barat, 2011 [10]
Mystus nigriceps (Valenciennes, 1840)
Mystus oculatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
Mystus pelusius (Solander, 1794)
Mystus prabini Darshan, Abujam, Humar, Parhi, Singh, et al. 2019 [11]
Mystus pulcher (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1911)
Mystus punctifer H. H. Ng, Wirjoatmodjo & Hadiaty, 2001
Mystus rhegma Fowler, 1935
Mystus rufescens (Vinciguerra, 1890)
Mystus seengtee (Sykes, 1839)
Mystus singaringan (Bleeker, 1846)
Mystus tengara (F. Hamilton, 1822) [12]
Mystus velifer H. H. Ng, 2012 [13]
Mystus vittatus (Bloch, 1794)
Mystus wolffii (Bleeker, 1851)
Mystus zeylanicus H. H. Ng & Pethiyagoda, 2013 [14]
Mystus celator Ng & Kottelat, 2023
Mystus armiger Ng, 2004
Mystus chinensis (Steindachner, 1883)
Mystus bagre Meuschen, 1778
Mystus rubicauda Bardach, 1959
Mystus pahangensis Herre, 1940
Mystus ascita Walbaum, 1792
Mystus cous Meuschen, 1778
Mystus anguillaris Meuschen, 1778
Mystus fasciatus Meuschen, 1778
Mystus chitol Hamilton, 1841
Mystus karipat Gray, 1831
Mystus rubripinnis Vanarajan & Arunachalam, 2018
Mystus cyrusi Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh, Zarei, Eagderi & Mousavi-Sabet, 2022
References
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Mystus in FishBase. October 2016 version.
Chakrabarty, Prosanta; Ng, Heok HEE (2005). "The identity of catfishes identified as Mystus cavasius (Hamilton, 1822) (Teleostei: Bagridae), with a description of a new species from Myanmar". Zootaxa. 1093: 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1093.1.1.
Plamoottil, M. & Abraham, N.P. (2014): Rediscovery and redescription of Mystus armatus Day. International Journal of Research in Fisheries and Aquaculture, 4 (1): 18-23.
Darshan, A., Anganthoibi, N. & Vishwanath, Waikhom (2010): Redescription of the striped catfish Mystus carcio (Hamilton) (Siluriformes: Bagridae). Zootaxa, 2475: 48–54.
Plamoottil, M. (2016): Mystus catapogon, a new catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) species from Kerala, India. Journal of Research in Biology, 6 (2): 1967-1976.
Bailung, B. & Biswas, S.P. (2015): New description of a Bagrid Catfish Mystus dibrugarensis (Chaudhuri, 1913) from Dihing river of Upper Assam. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies, 2 (3): 204-206.
Plamoottil, M. & Abraham, N.P. (2013): Mystus indicus and M. heoki, two new catfishes from Kerala, India. Biosystematica, 7 (1): 43-58.
Vijayakrishnan, Balaji; Praveenraj, Jayasimhan (2022). "Mystus irulu, a new species of bagrid catfish from the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India (Teleostei: Bagridae)". Zootaxa. 5120 (3): 443–448. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5120.3.10. PMID 35391156. S2CID 247772846.
Sudasinghe, H., Pethiyagoda, R., Maduwage, K. & Meegaskumbura, M. (2016): Mystus nanus, a new striped catfish from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Bagridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (2): 163-172.
Darshan, A., Vishwanath, W., Mahanta, P.C. & Barat, A. (2011): Mystus ngasep, a new catfish species (Teleostei: Bagridae) from the headwaters of Chindwin drainage in Manipur, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3 (11): 2177–2183.
Darshan, Achom; Abujam, Santoshkumar; Kumar, Ram; Parhi, Janmejay; Singh, Yambem Suresh; Vishwanath, Waikhom; Das, Debangshu Narayan; Pandey, Pramod Kumar (2019-07-31). "Mystus prabini , a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) from Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern, India". Zootaxa. 4648 (3): 511–522. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4648.3.6. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31716938. S2CID 201208285.
Darshan, A., Mahanta, P.C., Barat, A. & Kumar, P. (2013): Redescription of the Striped Catfish Mystus tengara (Hamilton, 1822) (Siluriformes: Bagridae), India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 5 (1): 3536–3541.
Ng, H.H. (2012). "Mystus velifer, a new species of catfish from Indochina (Teleostei: Bagridae)". Zootaxa. 3398 (1): 58–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3398.1.4.
Ng, H.H. & Pethiyagoda, R. (2013): Mystus zeylanicus, a new species of bagrid catfish from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Bagridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (2): 161-170.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/"
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
