| Tachysurus | |
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| Tachysurus fulvidraco | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Bagridae |
| Genus: | Tachysurus Lacépède, 1803 |
| Type species | |
| Tachysurus sinensis Lacépède, 1803
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| Synonyms1 | |
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Tachysurus is a genus of bagrid catfishes found in eastern Asia and as a fossil in Africa. The currently recognized species in this genus are:2
- Tachysurus adiposalis (Ōshima, 1919)
- Tachysurus albomarginatus (Rendahl, 1928)
- Tachysurus analis (Nichols, 1930)
- Tachysurus argentivittatus (Regan, 1905)
- Tachysurus aurantiacus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
- Tachysurus brachyrhabdion (Cheng, Ishihara & Zhang, 2008)
- Tachysurus brashnikowi (Berg, 1907) - Brazhnikov's catfish
- Tachysurus brevianalis (Regan, 1908)
- Tachysurus brevicaudatus (Wu, 1930)
- Tachysurus brevicorpus (Mori, 1936) - Korean stumpy bullhead
- Tachysurus crassilabris (Günther, 1864)
- Tachysurus dumerili (Bleeker, 1846) - Chinese longsnout catfish
- Tachysurus emarginatus (Regan, 1913)
- Tachysurus eupogon (Boulenger, 1892)
- Tachysurus flumendraco Chen, Liu & Yeh, 2024
- Tachysurus fui (Miao, 1934)
- Tachysurus gracilis Jie Li, X. L. Chen & B. P. L. Chan, 20053
- Tachysurus herzensteini (Berg, 1907) - Herzenstein's catfish
- Tachysurus hoi (Pellegrin & Fang, 1940)
- Tachysurus ichikawai (Okada & Kubota, 1957) - Neko-gigi
- Tachysurus intermedius (Nichols & Pope, 1927)
- Tachysurus kaifenensis (T. L. Tchang, 1934)
- Tachysurus koreanus Uchida, 1990
- Tachysurus kyphus Đ. Y. Mai, 1978
- †Tachysurus landanensis Dartevelle and Casier, 1943 (fossil, Eocene of Zaire)
- Tachysurus lani Cheng, Shao, López & Zhang, 2021
- Tachysurus latifrontalis Shao & Zhang, 2022
- Tachysurus longibarbus (Cui, 1990)
- Tachysurus medianalis (Regan, 1904)
- Tachysurus mica (Gromov, 1970)
- Tachysurus microcrassirostris (Xiao, 2010)
- Tachysurus microps (Rendahl (de), 1932)
- Tachysurus nitidus (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874)
- Tachysurus nubilosus H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 20074
- Tachysurus nudiceps (Sauvage, 1883)
- Tachysurus omeihensis (Nichols, 1941)
- Tachysurus pratti (Günther, 1892)
- Tachysurus similis (Nichols, 1926)
- Tachysurus sinensis Lacépède, 1803 - yellow catfish or Korean bullhead
- Tachysurus spilotus H. H. Ng, 2009
- Tachysurus ussuriensis (Dybowski, 1872) - Ussuri catfish
- Tachysurus virgatus (Ōshima, 1926)
- Synonyms
- Tachysurus fulvidraco (J. Richardson, 1846); valid as Tachysurus sinensis
- Tachysurus hirsutus (Herre, 1934)
- Tachysurus longispinalis (V. H. Nguyễn, 2006)
- Tachysurus tonkinensis (V. H. Nguyễn, 2006)
- Tachysurus vachellii (Richardson, 1846)
- Tachysurus yeni (V. H. Nguyễn & H. D. Nguyễn, 2006)
- Tachysurus zhangfei Shao, Cheng & Zhang, 2021
References
References
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Bagridae". Catalog of Fishes (genera). California Academy of Sciences.
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Tachysurus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
- Li, Jie; Chen, Xianglin; Chan, Bosco P.L. (2005). "A new species of Pseudobagrus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Bagridae) from southern China" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1067: 49–57. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1067.1.3. S2CID 86000113.
- Ng, Heok Hee; Freyhof, Jörg (March 2007). "Pseudobagrus nubilosus, a new species of catfish from central Vietnam (Teleostei: Bagridae), with notes on the validity of Pelteobagrus and Pseudobagrus". Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters. 18 (1): 9–16.