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Pterocryptis
Pterocryptis is a genus of sheatfish. These fish are medium-sized catfishes usually found in fast flowing mountain streams throughout India, southern China and Southeast Asia. There are two cavefish species in the genus, P. buccata and P. cucphuongensis.
16 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 16 known species
Pterocryptis anomala
speciesPterocryptis anomala
Malabar Silurus
speciesPterocryptis wynaadensis
Pterocryptis gangelica
speciesPterocryptis gangelica
Pterocryptis bokorensis
speciesPterocryptis bokorensis
Pterocryptis cochinchinensis
speciesPterocryptis cochinchinensis
Pterocryptis cucphuongensis
speciesPterocryptis cucphuongensis
Stream Sheatfish
speciesPterocryptis berdmorei
Pterocryptis buccata
speciesPterocryptis buccata
Pterocryptis subrisa
speciesPterocryptis subrisa
Pterocryptis taytayensis
speciesPterocryptis taytayensis
Pterocryptis indica
speciesPterocryptis indica
Pterocryptis barakensis
speciesPterocryptis barakensis
Pterocryptis crenula
speciesPterocryptis crenula
Pterocryptis furnessi
speciesPterocryptis furnessi
Pterocryptis inusitata
speciesPterocryptis inusitata
Pterocryptis verecunda
speciesPterocryptis verecunda
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 91549.