Pelteobagrus

Genus of fishes

Pelteobagrus
Pelteobagrus ornatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Bagridae
Genus: Pelteobagrus
Bleeker, 1865

Pelteobagrus is a genus of bagrid catfishes found in eastern Asia. The taxonomy of this genus is unclear and many authorities treat it as a junior synonym of Tachysurus[1] and the type species of the genus, is Silurus calvarius which is a synonym of Tachysurus fulvidraco.[2]

Species

There are currently five described species in this genus:[3]

  • Pelteobagrus eupogon (Boulenger, 1892)
  • Pelteobagrus intermedius (Nichols & C. H. Pope, 1927)
  • Pelteobagrus nudiceps (Sauvage, 1883)
  • Pelteobagrus tonkinensis V. H. Nguyễn, 2005
  • Pelteobagrus ussuriensis (Dybowski, 1872) (Ussuri catfish)

References

  1. ^ Maurice Kottelat (2013). "Inland fishes of Southeast Asia" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No 27: 266. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-06.
  2. ^ William Eschmeyer. "Species that contain: Silurus and calvarius (not including unavailable names)". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Pelteobagrus in FishBase. December 2011 version.
Taxon identifiers
Pelteobagrus


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