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Pelteobagrus

Pelteobagrus is a doubtful genus of bagrid catfishes found in eastern Asia. The taxonomy of this genus is unclear and many authorities treat it as a junior synonym of Tachysurus and the type species of the genus, is Silurus calvarius which is a synonym of Tachysurus sinensis.

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Pelteobagrus
Pelteobagrus ornatus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Bagridae
Genus: Pelteobagrus
Bleeker, 1865

Pelteobagrus is a doubtful genus of bagrid catfishes found in eastern Asia. The taxonomy of this genus is unclear and many authorities treat it as a junior synonym of Tachysurus1 and the type species of the genus, is Silurus calvarius which is a synonym of Tachysurus sinensis.2

Species

The following species have been in Pelteobagrus at some point:3

  • Pelteobagrus argentivittatus (Regan, 1905); valid as Tachysurus argentivittatus
  • Pelteobagrus brashnikowi (Berg, 1907); valid as Tachysurus brashnikowi
  • Pelteobagrus crassilabris (Günther, 1864); valid as Tachysurus crassilabris
  • Pelteobagrus crassirostris (Regan, 1913); valid as Tachysurus crassirosris
  • Pelteobagrus eupogon (Boulenger, 1892); valid as Tachysurus eupogon
  • Pelteobagrus fui (Miao, 1934); valid as Tachysurus fui
  • Pelteobagrus fulvidraco (Richardson, 1846); valid as Tachysurus sinensis Lacepède, 1803
  • Pelteobagrus intermedius (Nichols & Pope, 1927); valid as Tachysurus intermedius
  • Pelteobagrus kyphus (Mai, 1978); valid as Tachysurus kyphus
  • Pelteobagrus mica (Gromov, 1970); valid as Tachysurus mica
  • Pelteobagrus microps (Rendahl, 1933); valid as Tachysurus microps
  • Pelteobagrus nitidus (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874); valid as Tachysurus nitidus
  • Pelteobagrus nudiceps (Sauvage, 1883); valid as Tachysurus nudiceps
  • Pelteobagrus ornatus (Duncker, 1904); valid as Hyalobagrus ornatus
  • Pelteobagrus ransonnettii (Steindachner, 1887); valid as Tachysurus aurantiacus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
  • Pelteobagrus tenuifurcatus (Nichols, 1931); valid as Tachysurus tenuifurcatus
  • Pelteobagrus tonkinensis Nguyen, 2006; valid as Tachysurus tonkinensis
  • Pelteobagrus ussuriensis (Dybowski, 1872); valid as Tachysurus ussuriensis
  • Pelteobagrus vachellii (Richardson, 1846); valid as Tachysurus vachellii
  • Pelteobagrus virgatus (Oshima, 1926); valid as Tachysurus virgatus
  • Pelteobagrus wangi (Miao, 1934); species inquirenda in Tachysurus
  • Pelteobagrus wittenburgii (Popta, 1911); valid as Tachysurus sinensis Lacepède, 1803

FishBase currently shows two valid species in this genus, P. eupogon and P. tonkinensis.4

References

References

  1. Maurice Kottelat (2013). "Inland fishes of Southeast Asia" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No 27: 266. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-06.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species related to Silurus calvarius". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  3. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Pelteobagrus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  4. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Pelteobagrus". FishBase. August 2025 version.