Biology:Pterocryptis
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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] P. buccata is a cavefish.[2]
Species
There are currently 17 recognized species in this genus:[3]
- Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1934)
- Pterocryptis barakensis Vishwanath & Nebeshwar Sharma, 2006
- Pterocryptis berdmorei (Blyth, 1860)
- Pterocryptis bokorensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1937)
- Pterocryptis buccata H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 1998 (Cave sheatfish)
- Pterocryptis cochinchinensis (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Pterocryptis crenula H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001
- Pterocryptis furnessi (Fowler, 1905)
- Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861
- Pterocryptis indica (Datta, Barman & Jayaram, 1987)
- Pterocryptis inusitata H. H. Ng, 1999
- Pterocryptis neglecta (Endruweit, 2025)
- Pterocryptis subrisa Ng, Lalramliana & Lalronunga, 2018
- Pterocryptis taytayensis (Herre, 1924)
- Pterocryptis verecunda H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001
- Pterocryptis vorax Ng, Kahar & Tan, 2025
- Pterocryptis wynaadensis (Day, 1873)
- Synonyms
- Pterocryptis torrentis (Kobayakawa, 1989); valid as P. berdmorei
Genomics
A near telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of Pterocryptis cochinchinensis was published in 2026, representing a high-quality reference genome for the genus. The genome is approximately 931.7 Mb in size, assembled into 28 chromosomes, with a BUSCO completeness of 96.7%, and 28,079 protein-coding genes functionally annotated.[4]
References
- ↑ Ng, Heok Hee; Chan, Bosco P.-L. (2005). "Revalidation and redescription of Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1933), a catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from southern China". Zootaxa 1060: 51–64. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1060.1.4.
- ↑ Romero, A., ed (2001). The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. ISBN 978-1402000768.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Species in the genus Pterocryptis". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=species&genus=Pterocryptis.
- ↑ Chen, Weiting; Ouyang, Yuqian; Fan, Yuqin; Huang, Feng; Bian, Chao (2026). "A near telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of Pterocryptis cochinchinensis". Scientific Data. doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07135-0.
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