Pterocryptis

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Kingdom Animalia Order Siluriformes Scientific name Pterocryptis Rank Genus		Phylum Chordata Family Siluridae Higher classification Siluridae

Similar Siluridae, Catfish, Hemisilurus, Micronema

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.

Species

There are currently 17 recognized species in this genus:

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

Pterocryptis Wikipedia

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