Erethistidae

Erethistidae
Pseudolaguvia shawi
Systematics
Overcohort : Clupeocephala Cohort : Otomorpha Sub-cohort : Ostariophysi Otophysa Order : Catfish (Siluriformes) Family : Erethistidae
Scientific name
Erethistidae
Bleeker , 1862

The Erethistidae are a fish family from the order of the catfish-like (Siluriformes). They occur in North India , Nepal , Southwest China , Bangladesh and Myanmar .

features

Erethistidae resemble the mountain catfish (Sisoridae), but are significantly smaller with body lengths of about two to a maximum of ten centimeters. Your shoulder girdle has a coracoid process that extends well behind the attachment of the pectoral fins . They have four pairs of barbels and usually a large adipose fin . The species of the subfamily Continae have a long, thin adhesion apparatus on the belly, which is formed by integument folds and serves to hold the position in fast-flowing waters. The other subfamily, the Erethistinae, lack such an apparatus.

Systematics

The Erethistidae are assigned to the superfamily Sisoroidea, which, according to molecular biological studies, is placed in the “Big Asica” group. The family comprises two subfamilies with seven genera and over 30 species :

• Continae
  

  Conta conta
  • Conta
    • Conta conta
    • Conta pectinata
• Erethistinae
  • Ayarnangra
    • Ayarnangra estuarius
  • Caelatoglanis
    • Caelatoglanis zonatus
  • Erethistes
    • Erethistes hara
    • Erethistes horai
    • Erethistes jerdoni
    • Erethistes maesotensis
    • Erethistes pusillus
    • Erethistes serratus
  • Erethistoides
    • Erethistoides ascita
    • Erethistoides cavatura
    • Erethistoides infuscatus
    • Erethistoides montana
    • Erethistoides pipri
    • Erethistoides zithiensis
    • Erethistoides sicula
  • Hara
    

    Hara hara
    • Hara longissima
    • Hara mesembrina
    • Hara minuscula
    • Hara nareshi
    • Hara spinulus
  • Pseudolaguvia
    • Pseudolaguvia assula
    • Pseudolaguvia ferula
    • Pseudolaguvia foveolata
    • Pseudolaguvia inornata
    • Pseudolaguvia kapuri
    • Pseudolaguvia lapillicola
    • Pseudolaguvia muricata
    • Pseudolaguvia nubila
    • Pseudolaguvia ribeiroi
    • Pseudolaguvia shawi
    • Pseudolaguvia tenebricosa
    • Pseudolaguvia tuberculata

swell

• Alfred W. Thomson, Lawrence M. Page: Genera of the Asian Catfish Families Sisoridae and Erethistidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes) . In: Zootaxa . tape 1345 , 2006 (English, mapress.com [PDF]).
• Tim M. Berra: Freshwater Fish Distribution . The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2007, ISBN 978-0-226-04442-2 , pp. 211-213 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joseph S. Nelson: Fishes of the world . 4th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken 2006, ISBN 978-0-471-25031-9 , pp. 164 .
2. ↑ JP Sullivan, Lundberg JG; Hardman M: A phylogenetic analysis of the major groups of catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes) using rag1 and rag2 nuclear gene sequences . In: Mol Phylogenet Evol. . 41, No. 3, 2006, pp. 636-62. doi : 10.1016 / j.ympev.2006.05.044 .
3. ↑ Erethistidae on Fishbase.org (English)

Web links

• Erethistidae on Fishbase.org (English)