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Genus of fishes

Horaglanis
Horaglanis populi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Clariidae
Genus: Horaglanis
Menon, 1950
Type species
Horaglanis krishnai
Menon, 1950

Horaglanis is a genus of small airbreathing catfishes that are endemic to Kerala in India. The four known species are all adapted to life underground, lack pigmentation and are blind.

This genus and Kryptoglanis, both from the Western Ghats, are the only known underground-living catfish in India.

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Horaglanis". FishBase. December 2011 version.
  2. ^ Babu, K.K.S. (2012). "Horaglanis abdulkalami, a new hypogean blind catfish (Siluriformes: Clariidae) from Kerala, India". Samagra CRIKSC Journal. 8: 51-56.
  3. Britz, Ralf; Kakkassery, Francy; Raghavan, Rajeev (2014). "Osteology of Kryptoglanis shajii, a stygobitic catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from Peninsular India with a diagnosis of the new family Kryptoglanidae". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 24 (3): 193–207.
Taxon identifiers
Horaglanis


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