Pterocryptis Explained

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:

• Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1934)
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Revalidation and redescription of Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1933), a catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from southern China. Heok Hee. Ng. Chan, Bosco P.-L. . Zootaxa. 1060. 51–64. 2005. 10.11646/zootaxa.1060.1.4 . free. 85786142.
2. Romero, A., editor (2001). The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes.