Pseudobagrus

Pseudobagrus is a genus of bagrid catfishes that inhabit streams and rivers throughout East Asia.^[1] About half of these species occur in China.^[2]

The two Coreobagrus species, C. brevicorpus and C. ichikiwai, are both treated in some recent literature as valid in Pseudobagrus.^[3] It has been noted that Pelteobagrus may not be monophyletic if species placed in Pseudobagrus and Coreobagrus were excluded.^[3] The taxonomy of this genus is unclear and many authorities treat it as a junior synonym of Tachysurus.^[4]

Pseudobagrus species are small- to mid-sized bagrid catfishes.^[1] These fish all have an inferior mouth; narial openings widely separated; four pairs of barbels; top of head covered by skin in most species; two dorsal fin spines; pelvic fin small; and caudal fin emarginate, truncate or round.^[2]

One fossil species, †Pseudobagrus ikiensis Watanabe & Uyeno, 1999 is known from the Middle Miocene of Japan.^[5]

Species

There are currently 32 recognized species in this genus:^[6]

• Pseudobagrus adiposalis Ōshima, 1919
• Pseudobagrus albomarginatus (Rendahl (de), 1928)
• Pseudobagrus analis (Nichols, 1930)
• Pseudobagrus aurantiacus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
• Pseudobagrus brachyrhabdion J. L. Cheng, Ishihara & E. Zhang, 2008^[7]
• Pseudobagrus brevianalis Regan, 1908
• Pseudobagrus brevicaudatus (H. W. Wu, 1930)
• Pseudobagrus crassilabris (Günther, 1864)
• Pseudobagrus eupogoides H. W. Wu, 1930
• Pseudobagrus fui C. P. Miao, 1934
• Pseudobagrus gracilis Jie Li, X. L. Chen & B. P. L. Chan, 2005^[2]
• Pseudobagrus hwanghoensis (T. Mori, 1933)
• Pseudobagrus kaifenensis (T. L. Tchang, 1934)
• Pseudobagrus koreanus Uchida, 1990
• Pseudobagrus kyphus Đ. Y. Mai, 1978
• Pseudobagrus medianalis (Regan, 1904)
• Pseudobagrus microps (Rendahl (de), 1932)
• Pseudobagrus nubilosus H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2007^[1]
• Pseudobagrus omeihensis (Nichols, 1941)
• Pseudobagrus ondon T. H. Shaw, 1930
• Pseudobagrus pratti (Günther, 1892)
• Pseudobagrus rendahli (Pellegrin & P. W. Fang, 1940)
• Pseudobagrus sinyanensis (T. S. Fu, 1935)
• Pseudobagrus taeniatus (Günther, 1873)
• Pseudobagrus taiwanensis Ōshima, 1919
• Pseudobagrus tenuifurcatus (Nichols, 1931)
• Pseudobagrus tenuis (Günther, 1873)
• Pseudobagrus tokiensis Döderlein (de), 1887
• Pseudobagrus trilineatus (C. Y. Zheng, 1979)
• Pseudobagrus truncatus (Regan, 1913)
• Pseudobagrus vachelli^[8]
• Pseudobagrus wangi C. P. Miao, 1934

References

1. ^ Ng, Heok Hee & Freyhof, Jörg (March 2007). "Pseudobagrus nubilosus, a new species of catfish from central Vietnam (Teleostei: Bagridae), with notes on the validity of Pelteobagrus and Pseudobagrus". Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters. 18 (1): 9–16.
2. ^ Li, Jie; Chen, Xianglin; Chan, Bosco P.L. (2005). "A new species of Pseudobagrus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Bagridae) from southern China". Zootaxa. 1067: 49–57. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1067.1.3. S2CID 86000113
3. ^ Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types". Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1
4. ^ Maurice Kottelat (2013). "Inland fishes of Southeast Asia". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No 27: 266. Archived 2015-01-06 at the Wayback Machine.
5. ^ Watanabe, Katsutoshi & Uyeno, Teruya (1999-12-01). "Fossil bagrid catfishes from Japan and their zoogeography, with description of a new species,Pseudobagrus ikiensis". Ichthyological Research. 46 (4): 397–412. Bibcode:1999IchtR..46..397W. doi:10.1007/BF02673982. ISSN 1616-3915
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7. ^ Cheng, JL; Ishihara, H.; Zhang, E. (2008). "Pseudobagrus brachyrhabdion, a new catfish (Teleostei: Bagridae) from the middle Yangtze River drainage, South China". Ichthyological Research. 55 (2): 112–123. Bibcode:2008IchtR..55..112C. doi:10.1007/s10228-007-0020-3. S2CID 36319313
8. ^ Zhang, G., Wang, R., Mao, J., Yin, S., Tao, P., Chen, J., ... & Chen, S. (2016). The complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenic analysis of Pseudobagrus vachelli. Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 27(5), 3551-3552.