Mystus
Genus of fishes
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 62 recognized species in this genus:
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) [ 3]
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) [ 4]
Mystus castaneus H. H. Ng , 2002
Mystus catapogon Plamoottil , 2016 [ 5]
Mystus cavasius (F. Hamilton , 1822)
Mystus cineraceus H. H. Ng & Kottelat , 2009
Mystus dibrugarensis (B. L. Chaudhuri , 1913) [ 6]
Mystus falcarius Chakrabarty & H. H. Ng , 2005
Mystus gulio (F. Hamilton , 1822)
Mystus heoki Plamoottil & Abraham , 2013 [ 7]
Mystus horai Jayaram , 1954
Mystus impluviatus H. H. Ng , 2003
Mystus indicus Plamoottil & Abraham , 2013 [ 7]
Mystus irulu Vijayakrishnan and Praveenraj . 2022[ 8]
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 montanus (Jerdon , 1849)
Mystus multiradiatus T. R. Roberts , 1992
Mystus mysticetus T. R. Roberts , 1992
Mystus nanus Sudasinghe , Pethiyagoda , Maduwage & Meegaskumbura , 2016 [ 9]
Mystus ngasep Darshan , Vishwanath , Mahanta & Barat , 2011 [ 10]
Mystus nigriceps (Valenciennes , 1840)
Mystus oculatus (Valenciennes , 1840)
Mystus pelusius (Solander , 1794)
Mystus prabini Darshan, Abujam, Humar, Parhi, Singh, et al. 2019 [ 11]
Mystus pulcher (B. L. Chaudhuri , 1911)
Mystus punctifer H. H. Ng , Wirjoatmodjo & Hadiaty , 2001
Mystus rhegma Fowler , 1935
Mystus rufescens (Vinciguerra , 1890)
Mystus seengtee (Sykes , 1839)
Mystus singaringan (Bleeker , 1846)
Mystus tengara (F. Hamilton , 1822) [ 12]
Mystus velifer H. H. Ng , 2012 [ 13]
Mystus vittatus (Bloch , 1794)
Mystus wolffii (Bleeker , 1851)
Mystus zeylanicus H. H. Ng & Pethiyagoda , 2013 [ 14]
Mystus celator Ng & Kottelat, 2023
Mystus armiger Ng, 2004
Mystus chinensis (Steindachner, 1883)
Mystus bagre Meuschen, 1778
Mystus rubicauda Bardach, 1959
Mystus pahangensis Herre, 1940
Mystus ascita Walbaum, 1792
Mystus cous Meuschen, 1778
Mystus anguillaris Meuschen, 1778
Mystus fasciatus Meuschen, 1778
Mystus chitol Hamilton, 1841
Mystus karipat Gray, 1831
Mystus rubripinnis Vanarajan & Arunachalam, 2018
Mystus cyrusi Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh, Zarei, Eagderi & Mousavi-Sabet, 2022
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 .
^ 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). Zootaxa, 2475: 48–54.
^ 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.
^ a b 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). 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.
^ 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.
^ 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). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (2): 161-170.