Pseudobagarius meridionalis

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Pseudobagarius meridionalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Siluriformes Family: Akysidae Genus: Pseudobagarius Species: P. meridionalis
Binomial name
Pseudobagarius meridionalis (Ng & Siebert, 2004)

Pseudobagarius meridionalis is a species of catfish belonging to the family Akysidae (the stream catfishes). It is presently only known from the Barito River basin in southern Borneo.

This is a very small catfish, up to 32 mm standard length, with a body dark brown above with a few scattered pale spots and white below, with a strongly projected upper jaw so that the premaxillary teeth are clearly visible even when the mouth is closed.

[edit] References

• Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa 1418: 1–628. 
• A new species of the catfish genus Akysis (Siluriformes: Akysidae) from southern Borneo H.H. NG & D.J. SIEBERT