Biology:Oreoglanis setigera
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| Oreoglanis setigera | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Sisoridae |
| Genus: | Oreoglanis |
| Species: | O. setigera
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| Binomial name | |
| Oreoglanis setigera H. H. Ng & Rainboth, 2001
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Oreoglanis setigera is a species of catfish in the family Sisoridae, found in Laos and China.[1][2]
Size
This species reaches a length of 6.9 cm (2.7 in).[1]
Etymology
The fish's name derives from the Latin seta or saeta (L.), "hair" or "bristle"; -igera (L.), "to have or bear", i.e., "bristly", referring to the laciniate posterior margin of the maxillary barbels.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Oreoglanis setigera" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ↑ Ng, Heok Hee; Rainboth, Walter J. (2001). "A review of the sisorid catfish genus Oreoglanis (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) with descriptions of four new species". Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (732): 1–34. https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/57168.
- ↑ "Family SISORIDAE Bleeker 1858 (Hillstream Catfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/sisoridae/.
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