Pterocryptis

Pterocryptis
Pterocryptis wynaadensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Siluridae
Genus:	Pterocryptis Peters, 1861
Type species
Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Apodoglanis Fowler, 1905 HitoHerre, 1924 HitoichthysHerre 1924 HerklotsellaHerre, 1933

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. ^[1] P. buccata is a cavefish. ^[2]

Species

There are currently 17 recognized species in this genus: ^[3]

• Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1934)
• Pterocryptis barakensis Vishwanath & Nebeshwar Sharma, 2006
• Pterocryptis berdmorei (Blyth, 1860)
• Pterocryptis bokorensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1937)
• Pterocryptis buccata H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 1998 (Cave sheatfish)
• Pterocryptis cochinchinensis (Valenciennes, 1840)
• Pterocryptis crenula H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001
• Pterocryptis furnessi (Fowler, 1905)
• Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861
• Pterocryptis indica (Datta, Barman & Jayaram, 1987)
• Pterocryptis inusitata H. H. Ng, 1999
• Pterocryptis neglecta (Endruweit, 2025)
• Pterocryptis subrisa Ng, Lalramliana & Lalronunga, 2018
• Pterocryptis taytayensis (Herre, 1924)
• Pterocryptis verecunda H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001
• Pterocryptis vorax Ng, Kahar & Tan, 2025
• Pterocryptis wynaadensis (Day, 1873)

Synonyms

• Pterocryptis torrentis (Kobayakawa, 1989); valid as P. berdmorei

References

1. Ng, Heok Hee; Chan, Bosco P.-L. (2005). "Revalidation and redescription of Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1933), a catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from southern China". Zootaxa. 1060: 51–64. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1060.1.4 . S2CID   85786142.
2. Romero, A., ed. (2001). The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. ISBN   978-1402000768.
3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Pterocryptis". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 12 October 2025.