| 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
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. 20229
- 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
References
- 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.
- 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.