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: Pterocryptis
Species (17): P. anomala – P. barakensis – P. berdmorei – P. bokorensis – P. buccata – P. burmanensis – P. cochinchinensis – P. crenula – P. cucphuongensis – P. furnessi – P. gangelica – P. indicus – P. inusitata – P. subrisa – P. taytayensis – P. torrentis – P. verecunda – P. wynaadensis
Name
Pterocryptis Peters, 1861
Type species: Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861.
Synonyms
Apodoglanis Fowler, 1905
Herklotsella Herre, 1933
Hito Herre, 1924
Hitoichthys Herre, 1924
Penesilurus Herre, 1924
References
Fowler, H. W.; 1905: Some fishes from Borneo. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 57: 455–523. [1]
Herre, A. W. C. T.; 1924: Distribution of the true fresh-water fishes in the Philippines, II. The Philippine Labyrinthici, Clariidae, and Siluridae. Philippine Journal of Science, 24 (6): 683–709, Pls. 1-2.
Herre, A. W. C. T.; 1924: The distribution of true fresh-water fishes in the Philippines and its significance. Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Science Congress / Pacific Science Association. 2 (1923): 1561–1570.
Herre, A. W. C. T.; 1933: Herklotsella anomala. A new fresh water cat-fish from Hong Kong. Hong Kong Naturalist, 4 (2): 179–180.
Ng, H.H., Lalramliana & Lalronunga, S. 2018. Pterocryptis subrisa, a new silurid catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from northeastern India. Zootaxa 4500(1): 126–134. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.1.8 Paywall Reference page.
Peters, W. (C. H.), 1861: Über zwei neue Gattungen von Fischen aus dem Ganges. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preuss[ischen] Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1861: 712–713.
Pterocryptis and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2023. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
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]
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
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.
Romero, A., editor (2001). The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. ISBN 978-1402000768
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). Species of Pterocryptis in FishBase. July 2014 version.
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