Marine Species Traits - Pterocryptis Peters, 1861

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Pterocryptis Peters, 1861

AphiaID

270642 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:270642)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Siluridae Rafinesque, 1815

Synonymised names

Cephalakompsus Herre, 1924 · unaccepted

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Species Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1934)
Species Pterocryptis barakensis Vishwanath & Nebeshwar Sharma, 2006
Species Pterocryptis berdmorei (Blyth, 1860)
Species Pterocryptis bokorensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1937)
Species Pterocryptis buccata Ng & Kottelat, 1998
Species Pterocryptis burmanensis (Thant, 1966)
Species Pterocryptis cochinchinensis (Valenciennes, 1840)
Species Pterocryptis crenula Ng & Freyhof, 2001
Species Pterocryptis cucphuongensis (Mai, 1978)
Species Pterocryptis furnessi (Fowler, 1905)
Species Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861
Species Pterocryptis indica (Datta, Barman & Jayaram, 1987)
Species Pterocryptis inusitata Ng, 1999
Species Pterocryptis subrisa Ng, Lalramliana & Lalronunga, 2018
Species Pterocryptis taytayensis (Herre, 1924)
Species Pterocryptis torrentis (Kobayakawa, 1989)
Species Pterocryptis verecunda Ng & Freyhof, 2001
Species Pterocryptis wynaadensis (Day, 1873)
Species Pterocryptis afghana (Günther, 1864) accepted as Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Peters, W. (C. H.). (1861). Über zwei neue Gattungen von Fischen aus dem Ganges. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1861. : 712-713. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Pterocryptis Peters, 1861. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=270642 on 2025-09-17

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Pterocryptis Peters, 1861. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=270642 on 2025-09-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description Peters, W. (C. H.). (1861). Über zwei neue Gattungen von Fischen aus dem Ganges. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1861. : 712-713. [details]

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

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