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Genus of fishes
Psilorhynchus is a
genus of
fish in the family Psilorhynchidae native to
South Asia . This genus is the only member of its
family . The members of Psilorhynchus are small
benthic fishes which occur in rivers and streams with fast to swift currents, hence they are often referred to a torrent minnows. They are distributed in southern Asia, in the
Indo-Burma region and the
Western Ghats .
The genus is the sister group to the family
Cyprinidae , and with that family the Psilorhynchidae makes up the superfamily Cyprinoidea, with all the other cypriniform families in the superfamily
Cobitoidea .
[1]
Species
There are currently 29 recognized species in this genus:
Psilorhynchus amplicephalus
Arunachalam ,
Muralidharan &
Sivakumar , 2007
Psilorhynchus arunachalensis (
Nebeshwar ,
Bagra &
D. N. Das , 2007)
Psilorhynchus balitora (
F. Hamilton , 1822)
Psilorhynchus brachyrhynchus
Conway &
Britz , 2010
[2]
Psilorhynchus breviminor
Conway &
Mayden , 2008
Psilorhynchus chakpiensis
Shangningam &
Vishwanath , 2013
[3]
Psilorhynchus gokkyi
Conway &
Britz , 2010
[2]
Psilorhynchus hamiltoni
Conway ,
Dittmer ,
Jezisek &
H. H. Ng , 2013
[4]
Psilorhynchus homaloptera
Hora &
Mukerji , 1935
[5]
Psilorhynchus kaladanensis
Lal Ramliana ,
Lal Nuntluanga &
Lal Ronunga , 2015
[6]
Psilorhynchus khopai
Lal Ramliana ,
Solo ,
Lal Ronunga &
Lal Nuntluanga , 2014
[7]
Psilorhynchus konemi
Shangningam &
Vishwanath , 2016
[8]
Psilorhynchus maculatus
Shangningam &
Vishwanath , 2013
[9]
Psilorhynchus magnaoculus
Bungdon Shangningam and
Laishram Kosygin , 2021
[10]
Psilorhynchus melissa
Conway &
Kottelat , 2010
[11]
Psilorhynchus microphthalmus
Vishwanath &
Manojkumar , 1995
Psilorhynchus nepalensis
Conway &
Mayden , 2008
Psilorhynchus ngathanu
Shangningam &
Vishwanath , 2013
[12]
Psilorhynchus nudithoracicus
Tilak &
Husain , 1980
[4]
Psilorhynchus olliei
Conway &
Britz , 2015
[13]
Psilorhynchus pavimentatus
Conway &
Kottelat , 2010
[11]
Psilorhynchus piperatus
Conway &
Britz , 2010
[2]
Psilorhynchus pseudecheneis
Menon & A. K. Datta, 1964
[14]
Psilorhynchus rahmani
Conway &
Mayden , 2008
Psilorhynchus robustus
Conway &
Kottelat , 2007
Psilorhynchus rowleyi
Hora &
Misra , 1941
[15]
Psilorhynchus sucatio (
F. Hamilton , 1822)
[4]
Psilorhynchus tenura
Arunachalam &
Muralidharan , 2008
Psilorhynchus tysoni
Conway &
Pinion , 2016
[16]
References
^ Kevin W. Conway (2011).
"Osteology of the South Asian Genus Psilorhynchus McClelland, 1839 (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Psilorhynchidae), with investigation of its phylogenetic relationships within the order Cypriniformes" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 163 (1): 50–154.
doi :
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00698.x .
^
a
b
c Conway, K.W. & Britz, R. (2010):
Three new species of Psilorhynchus from the Ayeyarwaddy River drainage, Myanmar (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae). Zootaxa, 2616: 31–47.
^ Shangningam, B. & Vishwanath, W. (2013):
A new species of Psilorhynchus (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from the Chindwin basin of Manipur, India. Zootaxa, 3694 (4): 381–390.
^
a
b
c Conway, K.W., Dittmer, D.E., Jezisek, L.E. & Ng, H.H. (2013):
On Psilorhynchus sucatio and P. nudithoracicus , with the description of a new species of Psilorhynchus from northeastern India (Ostariophysi: Psilorhynchidae). Zootaxa, 3686 (2): 201–243.
^ Shangningam, B. & Vishwanath, W. (2014):
Redescription of Psilorhynchus homaloptera , a torrent minnow from Northeast India (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (3): 237-248.
^ Lalramliana, Lalnuntluanga & Lalronunga, S. (2015):
Psilorhynchus kaladanensis , a new species (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from Mizoram, northeastern India. Zootaxa, 3962 (1): 171–178.
^ Lalramliana, Solo, B., Lalronunga, S. & Lalnuntluanga (2014):
Psilorhynchus khopai , a new fish species (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from Mizoram, northeastern India. Zootaxa, 3793 (2): 265–272.
^ Shangningam, B. & Vishwanath, W. (2016):
Psilorhynchus konemi , a new species of torrent minnow from northeast India (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (4): 289-296.
^ Shangningam, B. & Vishwanath, W. (2013):
Psilorhynchus maculatus , a new species of torrent minnow from the Chindwin basin, Manipur, India (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (1): 57-62.
^ Shangningam, Bungdon and Kosygin, Laishram, 2021 Psilorhynchus magnaoculus, a new species of torrent minnow
(Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from Myanmar. Rec. zool. Surv. India: Vol. 121(3)/319-324, 2021
^
a
b Conway, K.W. & Kottelat, M. (2010):
Two new species of Torrent Minnow (Ostariophysi: Psilorhynchidae) from western Myanmar. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 58 (2): 259–267.
^ Shangningam, B. & Vishwanath, W. (2013):
Psilorhynchus ngathanu , a new torrent minnow species (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from the Chindwin Basin, Manipur, India. Ichthyological Research, 61 (1): 27-31.
^ Conway, K.W. & Britz, R. (2015):
Psilorhynchus olliei , a new species of torrent minnow from eastern Myanmar (Ostariophysi: Psilorhynchidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (4): 347–356.
^ Conway, K.W., Mayden, R.L., Shrestha, J. & Edds, D.R. (2012):
Redescription of the Nepalese endemic torrent minnow Psilorhynchus pseudecheneis with comments on P. homaloptera (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 23 (3): 193-210.
^ Shangningam, B., Kosygin, L. & Vishwanath, W. (2013):
Redescription of Psilorhynchus rowleyi Hora and Misra 1941 (Cypriniformes: Psilorhynchidae). Ichthyological Research, 60 (3): 249-255.
^ Conway, K.W. & Pinion, A.K. (2016): Psilorhynchus tysoni , a new species of torrent minnow from the Salween River drainage, western Thailand (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae). Zootaxa, 4136 (3): 580-592.
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