Erethistidae
Erethistes pusillus
The Erethistidae are a family of fish from the order of catfish -like ( Siluriformes ). They are found in North India, Nepal, Southwest China, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Features
Erethistidae resemble the mountain catfishes ( Sisoridae ), but are significantly smaller with body lengths of about two to ten centimeters. Your shoulder girdle has a Coracoidfortsatz which reaches far behind the base of the pectoral fins. They have four pairs of barbels and usually a large adipose fin. The species of the subfamily Continae have a long, thin Adhäsionsapparat on the belly, which is formed by Integumentsfalten and serves to hold in fast-flowing waters of the position. The other subfamily, the Erethistinae, lacking such an apparatus.
System
The Erethistidae the superfamily Sisoroidea be imputed, which is placed in the "Big Asica " group by molecular biological investigations. The family includes two subfamilies with seven genera and about 30 species:
- Continae Conta Conta conta
- Conta pectinata
- Ayarnangra Ayarnangra estuarius
- Caelatoglanis zonatus
- Erethistes hara
- Erethistes horai
- Erethistes jerdoni
- Erethistes maesotensis
- Erethistes pusillus
- Erethistes serratus
- Erethistoides ascita
- Erethistoides cavatura
- Erethistoides infuscatus
- Erethistoides montana
- Erethistoides Pipri
- Erethistoides senkhiensis
- Erethistoides sicula
- Hara longissima
- Hara Mesembrina
- Hara minuscula
- Hara spinulus
- Pseudolaguvia assula
- Pseudolaguvia ferula
- Pseudolaguvia foveolata
- Pseudolaguvia inornata
- Pseudolaguvia kapuri
- Pseudolaguvia lapillicola
- Pseudolaguvia muricata
- Pseudolaguvia nubila
- Pseudolaguvia ribeiroi
- Pseudolaguvia Shawi
- Pseudolaguvia tenebricosa
- Pseudolaguvia tuberculata
Swell
- Alfred W. Thomson, Lawrence M. Page: Genera of the Asian Catfish Families Sisoridae and Erethistidae ( Teleostei: Siluriformes ). In: Zootaxa. 1345, 2006 ( http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/zt01345p096.pdf ).
- Tim M. Berra: Freshwater Fish Distribution. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007, ISBN 9780226044422, pp. 211-213.