Mountain catfish

Mountain catfish
Nangra ichthya
Systematics
Overcohort : Clupeocephala Cohort : Otomorpha Sub-cohort : Ostariophysi Otophysa Order : Catfish (Siluriformes) Family : Mountain catfish
Scientific name
Sisoridae
Bleeker , 1858

The mountain catfish (Sisoridae), also called Turkestan pygmy catfish , live with over 200 species and 17 genera in southern Asia, from Asia Minor and Syria to India and in southern China and Borneo . The main area of ​​distribution is the Middle East .

features

Most species in the family are small, reach lengths of 4 to 20 centimeters, and live in fast-flowing mountain streams and rapids . The largest species, Bagarius bagarius and Bagarius yarrelli, live in the Ganges , the Mekong and other rivers in Southeast Asia and are 2 meters long. All but the genus Sisor have four pairs of barbels . Sisor has one pair of barbels on the maxillary and five pairs of barbels on the lower jaw. The body of the mountain catfish is usually covered with small tubercles. An adipose fin is present. In some genera it is fused with the caudal fin and in Sisor consists only of a small sting. The base of the dorsal fin is short. It can be with or without a preceding stinger. Some genera have an adhesion organ made up of a mouth and fins .

Systematics

Bagarius yarrelli

Glyptothorax lonah

Glyptosternon reticulatum

• Mountain catfish family (Sisoridae)
  • Subfamily Sisorinae
    • • Bagarius
      • Gagata
      • Gogangra
      • Nangra
      • Sisor
  • Subfamily Glyptosterninae
    • Tribe Glyptothoracini
      • Glyptothorax
    • Tribe Glyptosternina
      • Creteuchiloglanis
      • Euchiloglanis
      • Exostoma
      • Glaridoglanis
      • Glyptosternon
      • Myersglanis
      • Oreoglanis
      • Parachiloglanis
      • Pareuchiloglanis
      • Pseudexostoma
    • Tribe Pseudecheneidina
      • Pseudechene ice

literature

• Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World , John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
• Thomson, Alfred W .; Page, Lawrence M. (2006): Genera of the Asian Catfish Families Sisoridae and Erethistidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes) . Zootaxa 1345: 1-96. PDF .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wei Zhou, Xu Li, Alfred W. Thomson: A New Genus of Glyptosternine Catfish (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) with Descriptions of Two New Species from Yunnan, China. In: Copeia . Volume 2011, No. 2, 2011, pp. 226-241, doi: 10.1643 / CI-07-238 .

Web links

Commons : Gebirgswelse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mountain catfish on Fishbase.org (English)