Mystus
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| Mystus gulio | |
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| Mystus nigriceps | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Bagridae |
| Genus: | Mystus Scopoli, 1777 |
| Type species | |
| Bagrus pelusius Solander, 1794
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| Synonyms | |
Mystus is a genus of fish in the family Bagridae native to Asia.[1] Phylogenetic relationships within this genus are poorly understood, though it has been suggested that there are two major lineages.[2]
Species
[edit]There are currently 52 recognized species in this genus:[3]
- Mystus abbreviatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Mystus alasensis H. H. Ng & Hadiaty, 2005
- Mystus albolineatus T. R. Roberts, 1994
- Mystus ankutta Pethiyagoda, N. K. A. Silva & Maduwage, 2008
- Mystus armatus (F. Day, 1865) [4]
- Mystus atrifasciatus Fowler, 1937
- Mystus bimaculatus (Volz, 1904)
- Mystus bleekeri (F. Day, 1877)
- Mystus bocourti (Bleeker, 1864)
- Mystus canarensis S. Grant, 1999
- Mystus carcio (F. Hamilton, 1822) [5]
- Mystus castaneus H. H. Ng, 2002
- Mystus catapogon Plamoottil, 2016 [6]
- Mystus cavasius (F. Hamilton, 1822)
- Mystus celator Ng & Kottelat, 2023
- Mystus cineraceus H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2009
- Mystus cyrusi Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh, Zarei, Eagderi & Mousavi-Sabet, 2022
- Mystus dibrugarensis (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1913) [7]
- Mystus falcarius Chakrabarty & H. H. Ng, 2005
- Mystus gulio (F. Hamilton, 1822)
- Mystus heoki Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013 [8]
- Mystus horai Jayaram, 1954
- Mystus impluviatus H. H. Ng, 2003
- Mystus indicus Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013 [8]
- Mystus irulu Vijayakrishnan and Praveenraj. 2022[9]
- Mystus karipat Gray, 1831 (incertae sedis in Notopterinae)
- Mystus keletius (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Mystus keralai Plamoottil, 2014 (Kerala Mystus)
- Mystus leucophasis (Blyth, 1860)
- Mystus malabaricus (Jerdon, 1849)
- Mystus menoni Plamoottil, 2013 (Idukki Mystus)
- Mystus misrai Anuradha, 1986
- Mystus montanus (Jerdon, 1849)
- Mystus multiradiatus T. R. Roberts, 1992
- Mystus mysticetus T. R. Roberts, 1992
- Mystus nanus Sudasinghe, Pethiyagoda, Maduwage & Meegaskumbura, 2016 [10]
- Mystus ngasep Darshan, Vishwanath, Mahanta & Barat, 2011 [11]
- Mystus nigriceps (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Mystus oculatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Mystus pelusius (Solander, 1794)
- Mystus prabini Darshan, Abujam, Humar, Parhi, Singh, et al. 2019 [12]
- Mystus pulcher (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1911)
- Mystus punctifer H. H. Ng, Wirjoatmodjo & Hadiaty, 2001
- Mystus rhegma Fowler, 1935
- Mystus rubripinnis Vanarajan & Arunachalam, 2018
- Mystus rufescens (Vinciguerra, 1890)
- Mystus seengtee (Sykes, 1839)
- Mystus singaringan (Bleeker, 1846)
- Mystus tengara (F. Hamilton, 1822) [13]
- Mystus velifer H. H. Ng, 2012 [14]
- Mystus vittatus (Bloch, 1794)
- Mystus wolffii (Bleeker, 1851)
- Mystus zeylanicus H. H. Ng & Pethiyagoda, 2013 [15]
- Synonyms
- Mystus armiger Ng, 2004; valid as M. wolffii
- Mystus chinensis (Steindachner, 1883); valid as Hemibagrus guttatus (Lacepède, 1803)
- Mystus pahangensis Herre, 1940; valid as Hemibagrus capitulum (Popta, 1906)
- Mystus ascita Walbaum, 1792; valid as Pimelodus maculatus Lacepède, 1803
- Mystus ascita Gronow in Gray, 1854; valid as Platydoras costatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Mystus". FishBase. October 2016 version.
- ^ Chakrabarty, Prosanta; Ng, Heok HEE (2005). "The identity of catfishes identified as Mystus cavasius (Hamilton, 1822) (Teleostei: Bagridae), with a description of a new species from Myanmar". Zootaxa. 1093: 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1093.1.1.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Mystus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
- ^ Plamoottil, M.; Abraham, N.P. (2014). "Rediscovery and redescription of Mystus armatus Day". International Journal of Research in Fisheries and Aquaculture. 4 (1): 18–23.
- ^ Darshan, A.; Anganthoibi, N.; Vishwanath, Waikhom (2010). "Redescription of the striped catfish Mystus carcio (Hamilton) (Siluriformes: Bagridae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2475: 48–54. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2475.1.3.
- ^ Plamoottil, M. (2016). "Mystus catapogon, a new catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) species from Kerala, India". Journal of Research in Biology. 6 (2): 1967–1976.
- ^ Bailung, B.; Biswas, S.P. (2015). "New description of a Bagrid Catfish Mystus dibrugarensis (Chaudhuri, 1913) from Dihing river of Upper Assam". International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies. 2 (3): 204–206.
- ^ a b Plamoottil, M.; Abraham, N.P. (2013). "Mystus indicus and M. heoki, two new catfishes from Kerala, India". Biosystematica. 7 (1): 43–58.
- ^ Vijayakrishnan, Balaji; Praveenraj, Jayasimhan (2022). "Mystus irulu, a new species of bagrid catfish from the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India (Teleostei: Bagridae)". Zootaxa. 5120 (3): 443–448. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5120.3.10. PMID 35391156. S2CID 247772846.
- ^ Sudasinghe, H.; Pethiyagoda, R.; Maduwage, K.; Meegaskumbura, M. (2016). "Mystus nanus, a new striped catfish from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Bagridae)" (PDF). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 27 (2): 163–172.
- ^ Darshan, A.; Vishwanath, W.; Mahanta, P.C.; Barat, A. (2011). "Mystus ngasep, a new catfish species (Teleostei: Bagridae) from the headwaters of Chindwin drainage in Manipur, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 3 (11): 2177–2183. doi:10.11609/JoTT.o2180.2177-83.
- ^ Darshan, Achom; Abujam, Santoshkumar; Kumar, Ram; Parhi, Janmejay; Singh, Yambem Suresh; Vishwanath, Waikhom; Das, Debangshu Narayan; Pandey, Pramod Kumar (2019-07-31). "Mystus prabini, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) from Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern, India". Zootaxa. 4648 (3): 511–522. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4648.3.6. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31716938. S2CID 201208285.
- ^ Darshan, A.; Mahanta, P.C.; Barat, A.; Kumar, P. (2013). "Redescription of the Striped Catfish Mystus tengara (Hamilton, 1822) (Siluriformes: Bagridae), India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 5 (1): 3536–3541. doi:10.11609/JoTT.o2813.842.
- ^ Ng, H.H. (2012). "Mystus velifer, a new species of catfish from Indochina (Teleostei: Bagridae)". Zootaxa. 3398 (1): 58–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3398.1.4.
- ^ Ng, H.H.; Pethiyagoda, R. (2013). "Mystus zeylanicus, a new species of bagrid catfish from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Bagridae)" (PDF). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 24 (2): 161–170.