Mystus Explained

Mystus is a genus of fish in the family Bagridae native to Asia. Phylogenetic relationships within this genus are poorly understood, though it has been suggested that there are two major lineages.^[1]

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) ^[2]
• 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) ^[3]
• Mystus castaneus H. H. Ng, 2002
• Mystus catapogon Plamoottil, 2016 ^[4]
• Mystus cavasius (F. Hamilton, 1822)
• Mystus cineraceus H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2009
• Mystus dibrugarensis (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1913) ^[5]
• Mystus falcarius Chakrabarty & H. H. Ng, 2005
• Mystus gulio (F. Hamilton, 1822)
• Mystus heoki Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013 ^[6]
• Mystus horai Jayaram, 1954
• Mystus impluviatus H. H. Ng, 2003
• Mystus indicus Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013 ^[6]
• Mystus irulu Vijayakrishnan and Praveenraj. 2022^[7]
• 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 ^[8]
• Mystus ngasep Darshan, Vishwanath, Mahanta & Barat, 2011 ^[9]
• Mystus nigriceps (Valenciennes, 1840)
• Mystus oculatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
• Mystus pelusius (Solander, 1794)
• Mystus prabini ^[10]
• 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) ^[11]
• Mystus velifer H. H. Ng, 2012 ^[12]
• Mystus vittatus (Bloch, 1794)
• Mystus wolffii (Bleeker, 1851)
• Mystus zeylanicus H. H. Ng & Pethiyagoda, 2013 ^[13]
• 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

Notes and References

1. 10.11646/zootaxa.1093.1.1 . The identity of catfishes identified as Mystus cavasius (Hamilton, 1822) (Teleostei: Bagridae), with a description of a new species from Myanmar . 2005 . Chakrabarty . Prosanta . Ng . Heok HEE . Zootaxa . 1093 . 1 . free .
2. 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.
3. Darshan, A., Anganthoibi, N. & Vishwanath, Waikhom (2010): Redescription of the striped catfish Mystus carcio (Hamilton) (Siluriformes: Bagridae). Zootaxa, 2475: 48–54.
4. Plamoottil, M. (2016): Mystus catapogon, a new catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) species from Kerala, India. Journal of Research in Biology, 6 (2): 1967-1976.
5. 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.
6. Plamoottil, M. & Abraham, N.P. (2013): Mystus indicus and M. heoki, two new catfishes from Kerala, India. Biosystematica, 7 (1): 43-58.
7. 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.3.10 . Mystus irulu, a new species of bagrid catfish from the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India (Teleostei: Bagridae) . 2022 . Vijayakrishnan . Balaji . Praveenraj . Jayasimhan . Zootaxa . 5120 . 3 . 443–448 . 35391156 . 247772846 .
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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. en. 4648. 3. 511–522. 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.3.6. 31716938 . 201208285 . 1175-5334.
11. 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.
12. Ng . H.H. . Mystus velifer, a new species of catfish from Indochina (Teleostei: Bagridae) . Zootaxa . 2012 . 3398 . 1 . 58–68 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3398.1.4 .
13. 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.