Overview
Family : Bagrid catfishes ; Inhabits rivers .
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Sittang mystus
Common Names in Finnish:
Nokijuovamonni
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
白鱯, 白鳠
Description
Habitat
Biome: Marine .
Ecology:
This species inhabits larger rivers
in the lowlands (Vidthayanon
et al.
2005).[1].
List of Habitats
:
- 5 Wetlands (inland)
- 5.1 Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls ) [more info]
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Order:
Siluriformes
()
- Family:
nhabits rivers.
()
- Genus:
Mystus
()
- (Bleeker, 1851)
- Specific name:
leucophasis
- Scientific name: - Mystus leucophasis (Blyth, 1860)
- Specific name:
leucophasis
- Genus:
Mystus
(
- Family:
nhabits rivers.
(
- Order:
Siluriformes
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Synonyms
Bagrus leucophasis • Bagrus leucophasis Blyth • Bagrus leucophasis Blyth, 1860 • Macrones leucophasis (Blyth • Mystus leucophasis
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Blyth, E. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 29: 23., 1860.
Comment: Year from Eschmeyer, pers. comm.
Mystus leucophasis was described from the Sittang and other
rivers
in Myanmar (Blyth 1860).[1].
Similar Species
Members of the genus Mystus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 20 species and subspecies in this genus:
M. armatus (Kerala Mystus) · M. baramensis (Gangetic Mystus) · M. bleekeri (Day´s Mystus) · M. cavasius (Gangetic Mystus) · M. chitala (Thousand Dollar Knife Fish) · M. gulio (African Shovelnose Catfish) · M. horai (Krishna Mystus) · M. keletius (Keletius Mystus) · M. leucophasis (Sittang Mystus) · M. malabaricus (Jerdon´s Mystus) · M. micracanthus (Twospot Catfish) · M. montanus (Wynaad Mystus) · M. nemurus (Asian Redtail Catfish) · M. oculatus (Sittang Mystus) · M. pulcher (Nilgiri Mystus) · M. ramcarati (Frill-Tailed Golden Anchovy) · M. rufescens (Meetan Mystus) · M. seenghala (Stripped Dwarf Catfish) · M. tengara (Stripped Dwarf Catfish) · M. vittatus (Striped Catfish)
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Further Reading
- Blyth, E. 1860. Report on some fishes received chiefly from the Sitang River and its tributary streams, Tenasserim Provinces. Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 29(2): 138-174.
- Blyth, E. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 29: 23., 1860.
- IUCN. 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2010.4). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 27 October 2010).
- Talwar, P.K. and A.G. Jhingran (1991). Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 2. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
- Vidthayanon, C., Termvidchakorn A and Pe, M. 2005. Inland Fishes of Myanmar. SEAFDEC, Bangkok.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 30, 2012.
- Ferraris, Jr., Carl J. (from FishBase).
- FishBase 2006.
- FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Ng, H.H. 2010. Mystus leucophasis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:
- GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
- Senckenberg: Collection Pisces
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 132533
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-28859
- Fishbase Species ID: 13303
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 681024
- IUCN ID: 225445
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 117322
Footnotes
- Ng, H.H. 2010. Mystus leucophasis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]
