Biology:Mystus

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Mystus
Mystus gulio.jpg
Mystus gulio
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Mystus nigriceps
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Bagridae
Genus: Mystus
Scopoli, 1777
Type species
Bagrus pelusius
Solander, 1794
Synonyms

Aspidobagrus Bleeker, 1862
Heterobagrus Bleeker, 1864
Hypselobagrus Bleeker, 1862
Prajadhipokia Fowler, 1934

Mystus is a genus of fish in the family Bagridae native to Asia.[1] Phylogenetic relationships within this genus are poorly understood, though it has been suggested that there are two major lineages.[2]

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) [3]
  • 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) [4]
  • Mystus castaneus H. H. Ng, 2002
  • Mystus catapogon Plamoottil, 2016 [5]
  • Mystus cavasius (F. Hamilton, 1822)
  • Mystus cineraceus H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2009
  • Mystus dibrugarensis (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1913) [6]
  • Mystus falcarius Chakrabarty & H. H. Ng, 2005
  • Mystus gulio (F. Hamilton, 1822)
  • Mystus heoki Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013 [7]
  • Mystus horai Jayaram, 1954
  • Mystus impluviatus H. H. Ng, 2003
  • Mystus indicus Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013 [7]
  • Mystus irulu Vijayakrishnan and Praveenraj. 2022[8]
  • 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 [9]
  • Mystus ngasep Darshan, Vishwanath, Mahanta & Barat, 2011 [10]
  • Mystus nigriceps (Valenciennes, 1840)
  • Mystus oculatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
  • Mystus pelusius (Solander, 1794)
  • Mystus prabini Darshan, Abujam, Humar, Parhi, Singh, et al. 2019 [11]
  • 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) [12]
  • Mystus velifer H. H. Ng, 2012 [13]
  • Mystus vittatus (Bloch, 1794)
  • Mystus wolffii (Bleeker, 1851)
  • Mystus zeylanicus H. H. Ng & Pethiyagoda, 2013 [14]
  • 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

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Mystus in FishBase. October 2016 version.
  2. Chakrabarty, Prosanta; Ng, Heok HEE (2005). "The identity of catfishes identified as Mystus cavasius (Hamilton, 1822) (Teleostei: Bagridae), with a description of a new species from Myanmar". Zootaxa 1093: 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1093.1.1. 
  3. 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.
  4. Darshan, A., Anganthoibi, N. & Vishwanath, Waikhom (2010): Redescription of the striped catfish Mystus carcio (Hamilton) (Siluriformes: Bagridae). Zootaxa, 2475: 48–54.
  5. Plamoottil, M. (2016): Mystus catapogon, a new catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) species from Kerala, India. Journal of Research in Biology, 6 (2): 1967-1976.
  6. 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.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Plamoottil, M. & Abraham, N.P. (2013): Mystus indicus and M. heoki, two new catfishes from Kerala, India. Biosystematica, 7 (1): 43-58.
  8. Vijayakrishnan, Balaji; Praveenraj, Jayasimhan (2022). "Mystus irulu, a new species of bagrid catfish from the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India (Teleostei: Bagridae)". Zootaxa 5120 (3): 443–448. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5120.3.10. PMID 35391156. 
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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" (in en). Zootaxa 4648 (3): 511–522. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4648.3.6. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31716938. https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4648.3.6. 
  12. 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.
  13. Ng, H.H. (2012). "Mystus velifer, a new species of catfish from Indochina (Teleostei: Bagridae)". Zootaxa 3398 (1): 58–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3398.1.4. https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3398.1.4. 
  14. 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.

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