Erethistidae

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Erethistidae
Erethistes pusillus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Superfamily: Sisoroidea
Family: Erethistidae
Bleeker, 1862
Genera[1]

Ayarnangra

Caelatoglanis

Conta
Erethistes
Erethistoides
Hara
Pseudolaguvia

Erethistidae are a family of catfishes that originate from southern Asia.[2] It includes about 45 species.

Taxonomy

This family includes species previously placed in Sisoridae.[2] They were removed because they were thought to be more closely related to the neotropical Aspredinidae than to the remaining sisorids due to a number of morphological characters.[3] However, it has been suggested that the erethistid catfishes be included back into Sisoridae and some genera are included in that family by some authorities.[4]

Distribution

Erethistids are found on the Indian subcontinent eastwards to western Thailand and northern Malay Peninsula.[5]

Description

Many of the members of this family are small, cryptically colored fish with

akysids which have widely separated nostrils on each side of the head with a barbel on the posterior nostril.[6] Some erethistids possess a thoracic adhesive apparatus formed by longitudinal skin folds densely covered with unculi that appears to be an adaptation to life in fast-flowing waters; this closely resembles a similar structure in the sisorid Glyptothorax.[7]

References

Wikispecies has information related to Erethistidae.
  1. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Erethistidae" in FishBase. December 2011 version.
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  4. ^ Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
  5. ^ a b Ng, Heok Hee (March 2005). "Conta pectinata, a new erethistid catfish (Teleostei: Erethistidae) from northeast India" (PDF). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters. 16 (1): 23–28. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
  6. ^ Thomson, Alfred W.; Page, Lawrence M. (2006). "Genera of the Asian Catfish Families Sisoridae and Erethistidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1345: 1–96. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
  7. ^ Britzi, Ralf; Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2003). "A new species of the Asian catfish genus Pseudolaguvia from Myanmar (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Erethistidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 388: 1–8. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
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