Mystus

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Mystus
Twospot Catfish (M. nigriceps)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Bagridae
Genus: Mystus
Scopoli, 1777
Type species
Bagrus halepensis
Valenciennes, 1840
Synonyms
  • Aspidobagrus
    Bleeker, 1862
  • Hypselobagrus
    Bleeker, 1862
  • Heterobagrus
    Bleeker, 1864
  • Prajadhipokia
    Fowler, 1934

Mystus is a genus of small to medium-sized bagrid catfishes that occur in South and Southeast Asia.[1]

Mystus is poorly diagnosed. Macrones had previously been used by earlier authors, but this generic name was preoccupied in Coleoptera.[2] Phylogenetic relationships within this genus are poorly understood, though it has been suggested that there are two major lineages.[3] It was confirmed in 2005 that this genus is paraphyletic.[3]

There are two fossil species assigned to this genus both from the early Tertiary of the Sanshui Basin in Guangdong, China:

  • Mystus spinipectoralis Li & Wang 1979
  • Mystus dalungshanensis Li & Wang 1979

Species

There are currently 45 extant species in this genus:[4][5][6][7]

  • Mystus abbreviatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
  • Mystus alasensis H. H. Ng & Hadiaty, 2005[8]
  • Mystus albolineatus T. R. Roberts, 1994
  • Mystus ankutta Pethiyagoda, Anjana Silva & Maduwage, 2008
  • Mystus armatus (F. Day, 1865) (Kerala mystus)
  • Mystus armiger H. H. Ng, 2004
  • Mystus atrifasciatus Fowler, 1937
  • Mystus bimaculatus (Volz, 1904)
  • Mystus bleekeri (F. Day, 1877) (Day's mystus)
  • Mystus bocourti (Bleeker, 1864)
  • Mystus canarensis S. Grant, 1999
  • Mystus carcio (F. Hamilton, 1822)
  • Mystus castaneus H. H. Ng, 2002[2]
  • Mystus cavasius (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Gangetic mystus)
  • Mystus chinensis (Steindachner, 1883)
  • Mystus cineraceus H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2009
  • Mystus dibrugarensis (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1913)
  • Mystus falcarius Chakrabarty & H. H. Ng, 2005[3]
  • Mystus gulio (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Long whiskers catfish)
  • Mystus horai Jayaram, 1954 (Indus catfish)
  • Mystus impluviatus H. H. Ng, 2003[1]
  • Mystus indicus Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013[5]
  • Mystus heoki Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013[5]
  • Mystus keletius (Valenciennes, 1840)
  • Mystus leucophasis (Blyth, 1860)
  • Mystus malabaricus (Jerdon, 1849)
  • Mystus menoni Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013[6]
  • Mystus montanus (Jerdon, 1849)
  • Mystus multiradiatus T. R. Roberts, 1992
  • Mystus mysticetus T. R. Roberts, 1992
  • Mystus ngasep Darshan, Vishwanath, Mahanta & Barat, 2011[9]
  • Mystus nigriceps (Valenciennes, 1840) (Twospot catfish)
  • Mystus oculatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
  • Mystus pelusius (Solander, 1794)
  • Mystus pulcher (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1911)
  • Mystus punctifer H. H. Ng, Wirjoatmodjo & Hadiaty, 2001[10]
  • Mystus rhegma Fowler, 1935
  • Mystus rufescens (Vinciguerra, 1890)
  • Mystus seengtee (Sykes, 1839)
  • Mystus singaringan (Bleeker, 1846)
  • Mystus tengara (F. Hamilton, 1822)
  • Mystus velifer H. H. Ng, 2012[11]
  • Mystus vittatus (Bloch, 1794) (Striped dwarf catfish)
  • Mystus wolffii (Bleeker, 1851)
  • Mystus zeylanicus H. H. Ng & Pethiyagoda, 2013[7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ng, Heok Hee; Buth, D. G. (2003). "Mystus impluviatus: A New Species of Bagrid Catfish (Teleostei: Bagridae) from Eastern Borneo". In Buth, D. G. Copeia 2003 (2): 373–378. doi:10.1643/0045-8511(2003)003[0373:MIANSO]2.0.CO;2. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ng, Heok Hee (2002). "The identity of Mystus nigriceps (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1840), with the Description of a New Bagrid Catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from Southeast Asia" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 50 (1): 161–168. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 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" (PDF). Zootaxa 1093: 1–24. 
  4. ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Mystus in FishBase. August 2013 version.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Plamoottil, M. & Abraham, N.P. (2013): Mystus indicus and M. heoki, two new catfishes from Kerala, India. Biosystematica, 7 (1): 43-58.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Plamoottil, M. & Abraham, N.P. (2013): Mystus menoni, a new fish species from Kerala, India. International Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology, 1 (4): 315-325.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 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.
  8. ↑ Ng, Heok Hee; Hadiaty, Renny K. (March 2005). "Two new bagrid catfishes (Teleostei: Bagridae) from the Alas River drainage, northern Sumatra". Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters 16 (1): 83–92. 
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Ng, Heok Hee; Wirjoatmodjo, Soetikno; Hadiaty, Renny K. (2001). "Mystus punctifer, a New Species of Bagrid Catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from Northern Sumatra" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 49 (2): 355–358. 
  11. ↑ Ng, H.H. (2012): Mystus velifer, a new species of catfish from Indochina (Teleostei: Bagridae). Zootaxa, 3398: 58–68.

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