Leiocassis
Appearance
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Leiocassis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Siluriformes |
Family: | Bagridae |
Genus: | Leiocassis Bleeker, 1857 |
Type species | |
Bagrus micropogon Bleeker, 1852
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Synonyms | |
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Leiocassis is a genus of bagrid catfishes found mostly in Southeast Asia with some species occurring in China.
This genus has a confused taxonomy and there is uncertainty surrounding the number of valid species.[2] Certain East Asian bagrids formerly placed in this genus have been moved to Pseudobagrus.[2] In 2006, Heok Hee Ng considered the genus Leiocassis to be restricted to Sundaic Southeast Asia and Borneo and only a handful of species as valid (L. aculeatus, L. collinus, L. hosii, L. micropogon, L. poecilopterus, and L. tenebricus).[2]
The members of Leiocassis have an elongate narrow head and a prominently protruding snout.[2]
Species
[edit]There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus:[3]
- Leiocassis aculeatus H. H. Ng & Hadiaty, 2005[4]
- Leiocassis bekantan H. H. Ng & H. H. Tan, 2018[5]
- Leiocassis brevirostris V. H. Nguyễn, 2005
- Leiocassis collinus H. H. Ng & K. K. P. Lim, 2006[2]
- Leiocassis crassirostris Regan, 1913
- Leiocassis doriae Regan, 1913
- Leiocassis hosii Regan, 1906[2]
- Leiocassis longibarbus G. H. Cui, 1990
- Leiocassis micropogon (Bleeker, 1852)
- Leiocassis nitidus (Sauvage & Dabryi, 1874)
- Leiocassis poecilopterus (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Leiocassis saravacensis Boulenger, 1894
- Leiocassis tenebricus H. H. Ng & K. K. P. Lim, 2006[2]
- Leiocassis yeni V. H. Nguyễn & H. D. Nguyễn, 2005
References
[edit]- ^ Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628.
- ^ a b c d e f g Ng, Heok Hee; Lim, Kelvin K. P. (June 2006). "Two new species of Leiocassis (Teleostei: Bagridae), riverine catfishes from northeast Borneo". Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters. 17 (2): 165–172.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Leiocassis in FishBase. December 2011 version.
- ^ Ng, Heok Hee; Hadiaty, Renny K. (March 2005). "Two new bagrid catfishes (Teleostei: Bagridae) from the Alas River drainage, northern Sumatra". Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters. 16 (1): 83–92.
- ^ Ng, Heok Hee; Tan, Heok Hui. (October 2018). "Leiocassis bekantan (Teleostei: Bagridae), a new blackwater catfish from Borneo and Sumatra". Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters. 28 (4): 327–336.