Mystus

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(commonly known as Tengra) 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:

Species

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

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Heok Hee Ng; Buth, D. G. (2003). Buth, D. G., ed. "Mystus impluviatus: A New Species of Bagrid Catfish (Teleostei: Bagridae) from Eastern Borneo". Copeia 2003 (2): 373–378. doi:10.1643/0045-8511(2003)003[0373:MIANSO]2.0.CO;2.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Heok Hee Ng (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; Heok Hee Ng (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. ↑ Heok Hee Ng; 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. ↑ Plamoottil, Mathews; Abraham, Nelson P. (August 2, 2014). "MYSTUS KERALAI (SILURIFORMES: BAGRIDAE), A NEW FISH SPECIES FROM KERALA, INDIA" (PDF). International Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology (Rishan Publications) 2 (3): 231–240. ISSN 2320-9585. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Heok Hee Ng; 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.
  12. ↑ Ng, H.H. (2012): Mystus velifer, a new species of catfish from Indochina (Teleostei: Bagridae). Zootaxa, 3398: 58–68.

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