Oreoglanis heteropogon

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Oreoglanis heteropogon
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Sisoridae
Genus: Oreoglanis
Species:
O. heteropogon
Binomial name
Oreoglanis heteropogon

Oreoglanis heteropogon is a species of catfish in the family Sisoridae found in the Salween River drainage in western Thailand, which was discovered by Vidthayanon, Saenjundaeng and H.H. Ng in 2009. [1] [2]

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Size

This species reaches a length of 7.0 cm (2.8 in). [1]

Etymology

The fish's name derives from héteros (Gr. ἕτερος), "different"; pṓgōn (Gr. πώγων), "beard", as it is the only known similar fish from the Salween River drainage bearing a maxillary barbel with a pointed tip. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Oreoglanis heteropogon". FishBase . February 2015 version.
  2. ↑ Vidthayanon, C., P. Saenjundaeng and H.H. Ng, 2009. Eight new species of the torrent catfish genus Oreoglanis (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Thailand. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 20(2):127-156.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family SISORIDAE Bleeker 1858 (Hillstream Catfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 January 2025.


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