Amblycipitidae
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Amblycipitidae is a family of catfishes, commonly known as torrent catfishes.
Members of this family feature a long cigar-shaped or loach-like body with four barbels. The lateral line is poorly developed or absent. The dorsal fin is covered by thick skin. An adipose fin is present, but in some species is confluent with the caudal fin.
These kinds of fishes can be found in swift freshwater streams in Southern and Eastern Asia, including Pakistan across northern India to Malaysia, China, Korea, and Japan.
[edit] Species
There are 25 species in three genera:
- Genus Amblyceps
- Amblyceps caecutiens Blyth, 1858.
- Amblyceps carinatum Ng, 2005.
- Amblyceps foratum Ng & Kottelat, 2000.
- Amblyceps laticeps (McClelland, 1842).
- Amblyceps macropterus Ng, 2001.
- Indian torrent catfish, Amblyceps mangois (Hamilton, 1822).
- Amblyceps mucronatum Ng & Kottelat, 2000.
- Amblyceps murraystuarti Chaudhuri, 1919.
- Amblyceps platycephalus Ng & Kottelat, 2000.
- Amblyceps serratum Ng & Kottelat, 2000.
- Amblyceps tenuispinis Blyth, 1860.
- Amblyceps variegatum Ng & Kottelat, 2000.
- Genus Liobagrus
- Liobagrus andersoni Regan, 1908.
- Liobagrus anguillicauda Nichols, 1926.
- Liobagrus formosanus Regan, 1908.
- Liobagrus kingi Tchang, 1935.
- Liobagrus marginatoides (Wu, 1930).
- Liobagrus marginatus (Günther, 1892).
- Liobagrus mediadiposalis Mori, 1936.
- Liobagrus nantoensis Oshima, 1919.
- Liobagrus nigricauda Regan, 1904.
- Liobagrus obesus Son, Kim & Choo, 1987.
- Liobagrus reinii Hilgendorf, 1878.
- Liobagrus styani Regan, 1908.
- Genus Xiurenbagrus
- Xiurenbagrus gigas Zhao, Lan & Zhang, 2004.
- Xiurenbagrus xiurenensis (Yue, 1981).
[edit] References
- "Amblycipitidae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. Mar 2007 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2007.
- Nelson, Joseph S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0471250317
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