Amblyceps
| Amblyceps | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Amblycipitidae |
| Genus: | Amblyceps Blyth, 1858 |
| Type species | |
| Amblyceps caecutiens Blyth, 1858 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Branchiosteus Gill, 1861 | |
Amblyceps is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Amblycipitidae.[1]
Phylogeny
The genera Amblyceps and Liobagrus are sister group pair that is, in turn, sister to Xiurenbagrus.[2]
Distribution and habitat
Amblyceps species are distributed throughout south and southeast Asia. They typically inhabit fast flowing hill streams or fast-flowing stretches of larger rivers.[3] Amblyceps are mainly distributed in India and the Malay Peninsula.[4] Three species are known from Myanmar, A. murraystuarti, A. mucronatum, and A. carinatum.[3]
Description
Amblyceps are easily distinguished by the presence of pinnate processes along the median caudal-fin rays (although these processes may be poorly developed in some species), a prominent cup-like skin flap above the base of the pectoral spine, and the adipose fin largely separate from the caudal fin.[3] In most species the caudal fin is deeply forked; A. apangi and A. murraystuarti differ in having their caudal fin truncate.[3] Amblyceps species may reach about 100 millimetres (3.94 in) SL.[2]
Species
Fishbase currently recognizes 18 valid species:[5]
- Amblyceps apangi Nath & Dey, 1989
- Amblyceps arunachalensis Nath & Dey, 1989
- Amblyceps caecutiens Blyth, 1858
- Amblyceps carinatum Ng, 2005[3]
- Amblyceps cerinum Ng & Wright, 2010[6]
- Amblyceps foratum Ng & Kottelat, 2000
- Amblyceps kurzii (Day, 1872)
- Amblyceps laticeps (McClelland, 1842)
- Amblyceps macropterus Ng, 2001
- Amblyceps mangois (Hamilton, 1822) (Indian torrent catfish)
- Amblyceps murraystuarti Chaudhuri, 1919
- Amblyceps platycephalus Ng & Kottelat, 2000
- Amblyceps protentum Ng & Wright, 2009
- Amblyceps serratum Ng & Kottelat, 2000
- Amblyceps tenuispinis Blyth, 1860
- Amblyceps torrentis Linthoingambi & Vishwanath, 2008[7]
- Amblyceps tuberculatum Linthoingambi & Vishwanath, 2008[7]
- Amblyceps variegatum Ng & Kottelat, 2000
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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chen, Xiaoping; Lundberg, John G. (1995). "Xiurenbagrus, a New Genus of Amblycipitid Catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes), and Phylogenetic Relationships among the Genera of Amblycipitidae". Copeia 1995 (4): 780–800. doi:10.2307/1447027. JSTOR 1447027.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Ng, Heok Hee (2005). "Amblyceps carinatum a New Species of Hillstream Catfish from Myanmar (Telestei: Amblycipitidae)" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (2): 243–249.
- ↑ Zhao, Yahui; Lan, Jiahu; Zhang, Chunguang (2004). "A new species of amblycipitid catfish, Xiurenbagrus gigas (Teleostei: Siluriformes), from Guangxi, China". Ichthyological Research 51 (3): 228–232. doi:10.1007/s10228-004-0220-z.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2014). Species of Amblyceps in FishBase. June 2014 version.
- ↑ Ng; Wright (2010). "Amblyceps cerinum, a new catfish (Teleostei: Amblycipitidae) from northeastern India". Zootaxa 2672: 50–60.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Linthoingambi, Irengbam; Vishwanath, Waikhom (2008). "Two new catfish species of the genus Amblyceps from Manipur, India (Teleostei: Amblycipitidae)". Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters 19 (2): 167–174.
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