Ompok

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: Siluridae
Genus: Ompok
Species: O. argestes – O. bimaculatus – O. binotatus – O. borneensis – O. brevirictus – O. fumidus – O. hypophthalmus – O. jaynei – O. karunkodu – O. leiacanthus – O. malabaricus – O. miostomus – O. pabda – O. pabo – O. pinnatus – O. platyrhynchus – O. pluriradiatus – O. rhadinurus – O. sindensis – O. supernus – O. urbaini – O. weberi
Name

Ompok Lacépède, 1803
References

Ferraris, C.J., jr. 2007: Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa, 1418: 1–628. Abstract & excerpt PDF part 1, PDF part 2, PDF entire
Ng, H.H.; Hadiaty, R.K. 2009: Ompok brevirictus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Sumatra. Zootaxa, 2232: 50–60. Abstract & excerpt [erratum in Zootaxa, 2289: 68. PDF]
Sudasinghe, H. & Meegaskumbura, M. 2016. Ompok argestes, a new species of silurid catfish endemic to Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Siluridae). Zootaxa 4158(2): 261–271. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4158.2.7. Reference page.

Links

Ompok – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Ompok is a genus of fish in the family Siluridae found in lakes and large rivers throughout South and Southeast Asia.[1]
Taxonomy

The genus is recognized to be paraphyletic. The species of Ompok have been grouped into species groups, such as the Ompok bimaculatus group (i.e. O. bimaculatus, O. malabaricus and O. miostoma), the O. eugeneiatus group (i.e. O. eugeneiatus and O. pinnatus), the O. hypophthalmus group (i.e. O. hypophthalmus, O. rhabdinurus and O. urbaini) and the O. leiacanthus group (O. fumidus, O. jaynei and O. leiacanthus).[2][3][4] On the other hand, the monophyly of these species groups is not strong enough to reassign species to other genera.[5]

The O. eugeneiatus group is likely to be more closely related to Kryptopterus than the other Ompok species.[2] According to Ferraris O. eugeneiatus has been reclassified into Kryptopterus, however O. pinnatus has not.[6]
Species

There are currently 28 recognized species in this genus:

Ompok argestes Sudasinghe & Meegaskumbura, 2016[7] (Wetzone butter catfish)
Ompok bimaculatus (Bloch, 1794) (Butter catfish)
Ompok binotatus H. H. Ng, 2002
Ompok borneensis (Steindachner, 1901)
Ompok brevirictus H. H. Ng & Hadiaty, 2009
Ompok canio (F. Hamilton, 1822)
Ompok ceylonensis (Günther, 1864)[7] (Dryzone butter catfish)
Ompok eugeneiatus (Vaillant, 1893) (Malay glass catfish)
Ompok fumidus T. H. T. Tan & P. K. L. Ng, 1996
Ompok goae (Haig, 1952)
Ompok hypophthalmus (Bleeker, 1846)
Ompok javanensis (Hardenberg, 1938)
Ompok jaynei Fowler, 1905
Ompok karunkodu H. H. Ng, 2013 [8]
Ompok leiacanthus (Bleeker, 1853)
Ompok malabaricus (Valenciennes, 1840) (Goan catfish)
Ompok miostoma Vaillant, 1902
Ompok pabda (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Pabdah catfish)
Ompok pabo (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Pabo catfish)
Ompok pinnatus H. H. Ng, 2003 (Long-fin glass catfish)
Ompok platyrhynchus H. H. Ng & H. H. Tan, 2004
Ompok pluriradiatus H. H. Ng, 2002
Ompok rhadinurus H. H. Ng, 2003
Ompok sabanus Inger & P. K. Chin, 1959
Ompok siluroides Lacépède, 1803
Ompok supernus H. H. Ng, 2008
Ompok urbaini (P. W. Fang & Chaux, 1949)
Ompok weberi (Hardenberg, 1936)

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Ompok in FishBase. June 2016 version.
Bornbusch, A.H. (1995): Phylogenetic relationships within the Eurasian catfish family Siluridae (Pisces: Siluriformes), with comments on generic validities and biogeography. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 115 (1): 1–46.
Ng, H.H. (2003): A review of the Ompok hypophthalmus group of silurid catfishes with the description of a new species from South-East Asia. Journal of Fish Biology, 62 (6): 1296–1311.
Ng, H.H. (2003): Ompok pinnatus, a new species of silurid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Siluridae) from mainland Southeast Asia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 116 (1): 47-51.
Ng, H.H. & Tan, H.H. (2004): Ompok platyrhynchus, a new silurid catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Borneo. Zootaxa, 580: 1–11.
Ferraris, C.J.Jr. (2007): Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa, 1418: 1–628.
Sudasinghe, H. & Meegaskumbura, M. (2016): Ompok argestes, a new species of silurid catfish endemic to Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Siluridae). Zootaxa, 4158 (2): 261–271.
Ng, H.H. (2013): Ompok karunkodu, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from southern India. Zootaxa, 3694 (2): 161–166.