Mystus catapogon, a new catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) species from Kerala, India
Keywords:
Taxonomy, Bagrid fish, Mystus keralai, Mystus seengtee
Abstract
Mystus catapogon, a new fish species, is distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characters: maxillary barbels reach beyond caudal fin base; outer mandibulars reach to base of ventral fin and inner mandibular barbels to middle of pectoral fin; Snout shorter; cephalic groove long, shallow and divided into two fontanels and reaching occipital process; occipital process does not reach basal bone of dorsal fin; adipose fin located fairly behind the rayed dorsal fin; body without any mid lateral stripe. The new fish is described and compared with its congeners.
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Roberts TR. (1994). Systematic revision of Asian bagrid catfishes of the genus Mystus sensu stricto, with a new species from Thailand and Cambodia. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 5(3):241–256.
Sykes WH. (1839). An account of the fishes of Dukhun. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (New Series), 4: 54–62.
Valenciennes MA. (1839). Histoire naturelle Poissons, Paris, 540.
Day F. (1878). The fishes of India: being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma and Ceylon. London, 169-368.
Day F. (1889). Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London, 509.
Day F. (1865). The Fishes of Malabar. Bernard Quaritch, London.
Grant S. (1999). A replacement name and neotype designation for Hara malabarica Day, 1865, with notes on related species (Siluriformes). Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 3(4):169-174.
Grant S. (2004). The striped cat fishes of the genus Mystus Scopeli 1777 (Siluriformes:bagridae). J. Catfish Study Group, 5(2):5-17.
Hamilton B. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the River Ganges and its branches. Archibald Constable, Edinburgh and Hurst, Robinson, London, 405.
Jayaram KC. (2002). Fundamentals of Fish Taxonomy. Narendra publishing House, Delhi, 174.
Jayaram KC and Anuradha S. (2003). Revision of the fishes of the genus Mystus scopoli. (Family: Bagridae). Records of Zoolical Survey of India, 207:1-136.
Jayaram KC. (2006). Cat Fishes of India. Narendra Publishing House, Delhi, 383.
Jayaram KC. (2010). Fresh Water Fishes of the Indian Region. Narendra publishing House, Delhi, 256- 260.
Jerdon TC. (1848). On the fresh water fishes of Southern India. Madras Journal of Literature and Science, 15:302- 345.
Mo TP. (1991). Anatomy, relationships and systematics of the Bagridae (Teleostei: Siluroidei) with a hypothesis of siluroid phylogeny. Theses Zoologicae, 17:1–216.
Plamoottil M and Abraham NP. ( 2013a). Mystus indicus and M. heoki, two new catfishes from Kerala, India. Biosystematica, 7(1):43-58.
Plamoottil M and Abraham NP. (2013b). Mystus menoni, a new fish species from Kerala, India. International Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology, 1(4):315-325.
Plamoottil M and Abraham NP. (2014a). Rediscovery and redescription of Mystus armatus Day. International Journal of Research in Fisheries and Aquaculture, 4(1): 18-21.
Plamoottil M and Abraham NP. (2014b). Mystus keralai, new fish species from Kerala, India. International Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology, 2(3):231-240.
Roberts TR. (1994). Systematic revision of Asian bagrid catfishes of the genus Mystus sensu stricto, with a new species from Thailand and Cambodia. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 5(3):241–256.
Sykes WH. (1839). An account of the fishes of Dukhun. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (New Series), 4: 54–62.
Valenciennes MA. (1839). Histoire naturelle Poissons, Paris, 540.
Published
2016-02-25
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Plamoottil, M. (2016). Mystus catapogon, a new catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) species from Kerala, India. Journal of Research in Biology, 6(2), 1967-1976. Retrieved from https://ojs.jresearchbiology.com/ojs1/index.php/jrb/article/view/412
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