| Pterocryptis | |
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| Pterocryptis wynaadensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Siluridae |
| Genus: | Pterocryptis Peters, 1861 |
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| Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861 | |
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Pterocryptis is a genus of sheatfish. These fish are medium-sized catfishes usually found in fast flowing mountain streams throughout India, southern China and Southeast Asia. There are two cavefish species in the genus, P. buccata and P. cucphuongensis.
Species
There are currently 17 recognized species in this genus:
- Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1934)
- Pterocryptis barakensis Vishwanath & Nebeshwar Sharma, 2006
- Pterocryptis berdmorei (Blyth, 1860)
- Pterocryptis bokorensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1937)
- Pterocryptis buccata H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 1998 (Cave sheatfish)
- Pterocryptis burmanensis (Thant, 1966)
- Pterocryptis cochinchinensis (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Pterocryptis crenula H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001
- Pterocryptis cucphuongensis (Mai, 1978)
- Pterocryptis furnessi (Fowler, 1905)
- Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861
- Pterocryptis indicus (Datta, Barman & Jayaram, 1987)
- Pterocryptis inusitata H. H. Ng, 1999
- Pterocryptis taytayensis (Herre, 1924)
- Pterocryptis torrentis (Kobayakawa, 1989)
- Pterocryptis verecunda H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001
- Pterocryptis wynaadensis (Day, 1873)
References
- Ng, Heok Hee; Chan, Bosco P.-L. (2005). "Revalidation and redescription of Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1933), a catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from southern China". Zootaxa. 1060: 51–64. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1060.1.4. S2CID 85786142.
- Romero, A., editor (2001). The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. ISBN 978-1402000768
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Pterocryptis". FishBase. July 2014 version.
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