Oreoglanis hponkanensis

Oreoglanis hponkanensis
Oreoglanis hponkanensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Sisoridae
Genus:	Oreoglanis
Species:	O. hponkanensis
Binomial name
Oreoglanis hponkanensis X. Y. Chen, T. Qin & Z. Y. Chen, 2017

Oreoglanis hponkanensis is a species of catfish in the family Sisoridae found in Myanmar. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Size

This species reaches a length of 6.9 cm (2.7 in). ^[1]

Etymology

The fishes name in Latin = –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Hponkanrazi Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Kachin state, in Myanmar, the type specimen locality ^[4]

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Oreoglanis hponkanensis". FishBase . February 2015 version.
2. Ng, H.H. and W.J. Rainboth, 2001. A review of the sisorid catfish genus Oreoglanis (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) with descriptions of four new species. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (732):1-34.
3. Chen, X.-Y.; Qin, T.; Chen, Z.-Y. (2017). "Oreoglanis hponkanensis, a new sisorid catfish from north Myanmar (Actinopterygii, Sisoridae)". ZooKeys (646): 95–108. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.646.11049 . PMC   5299442 . PMID   28228678.
4. 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.