Tachysurus

Tachysurus
Tachysurus fulvidraco
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Bagridae
Genus:	Tachysurus Lacépède, 1803
Type species
Tachysurus sinensis Lacépède, 1803
Synonyms [1]
AdelopeltisDabry de Thiersant, 1872 CoreobagrusMori, 1936 Dermocassis (subgenus of Leiocassis)Nichols, 1925 FluvidracoJordan & Fowler, 1903 Nasocassis (subgenus of Leiocassis)Nichols, 1925 Pelteobagrus Bleeker, 1864 Pseudobagrus Bleeker, 1858 RhinobagrusBleeker, 1865

Tachysurus is a genus of bagrid catfishes found in eastern Asia and as a fossil in Africa. The currently recognized species in this genus are: ^[2]

• Tachysurus adiposalis (Ōshima, 1919)
• Tachysurus albomarginatus (Rendahl, 1928)
• Tachysurus analis (Nichols, 1930)
• Tachysurus argentivittatus (Regan, 1905)
• Tachysurus aurantiacus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
• Tachysurus brachyrhabdion (Cheng, Ishihara & Zhang, 2008)
• Tachysurus brashnikowi (Berg, 1907) - Brazhnikov's catfish
• Tachysurus brevianalis (Regan, 1908)
• Tachysurus brevicaudatus (Wu, 1930)
• Tachysurus brevicorpus (Mori, 1936) - Korean stumpy bullhead
• Tachysurus crassilabris (Günther, 1864)
• Tachysurus dumerili (Bleeker, 1846) - Chinese longsnout catfish
• Tachysurus emarginatus (Regan, 1913)
• Tachysurus eupogon (Boulenger, 1892)
• Tachysurus flumendraco Chen, Liu & Yeh, 2024
• Tachysurus fui (Miao, 1934)
• Tachysurus gracilis Jie Li, X. L. Chen & B. P. L. Chan, 2005 ^[3]
• Tachysurus herzensteini (Berg, 1907) - Herzenstein's catfish
• Tachysurus hoi (Pellegrin & Fang, 1940)
• Tachysurus ichikawai (Okada & Kubota, 1957) - Neko-gigi
• Tachysurus intermedius (Nichols & Pope, 1927)
• Tachysurus kaifenensis (T. L. Tchang, 1934)
• Tachysurus koreanus Uchida, 1990
• Tachysurus kyphus Đ. Y. Mai, 1978
• † Tachysurus landanensis Dartevelle and Casier, 1943 (fossil, Eocene of Zaire)
• Tachysurus lani Cheng, Shao, López & Zhang, 2021
• Tachysurus latifrontalis Shao & Zhang, 2022
• Tachysurus longibarbus (Cui, 1990)
• Tachysurus medianalis (Regan, 1904)
• Tachysurus mica (Gromov, 1970)
• Tachysurus microcrassirostris (Xiao, 2010)
• Tachysurus microps (Rendahl (de), 1932)
• Tachysurus nitidus (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874)
• Tachysurus nubilosus H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2007 ^[4]
• Tachysurus nudiceps (Sauvage, 1883)
• Tachysurus omeihensis (Nichols, 1941)
• Tachysurus pratti (Günther, 1892)
• Tachysurus similis (Nichols, 1926)
• Tachysurus sinensis Lacépède, 1803 - yellow catfish or Korean bullhead
• Tachysurus spilotus H. H. Ng, 2009
• Tachysurus ussuriensis (Dybowski, 1872) - Ussuri catfish
• Tachysurus virgatus (Ōshima, 1926)

Synonyms

• Tachysurus fulvidraco(J. Richardson, 1846); valid as Tachysurus sinensis

Incertae sedis

• Tachysurus hirsutus (Herre, 1934)
• Tachysurus longispinalis (V. H. Nguyễn, 2006)
• Tachysurus tonkinensis (V. H. Nguyễn, 2006)
• Tachysurus vachellii (Richardson, 1846)
• Tachysurus yeni (V. H. Nguyễn & H. D. Nguyễn, 2006)
• Tachysurus zhangfei Shao, Cheng & Zhang, 2021

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Bagridae". Catalog of Fishes (genera). California Academy of Sciences.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Tachysurus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 13 August 2025.
3. Li, Jie; Chen, Xianglin; Chan, Bosco P.L. (2005). "A new species of Pseudobagrus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Bagridae) from southern China" (PDF). Zootaxa . 1067: 49–57. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1067.1.3. S2CID   86000113.
4. Ng, Heok Hee; Freyhof, Jörg (March 2007). "Pseudobagrus nubilosus, a new species of catfish from central Vietnam (Teleostei: Bagridae), with notes on the validity of Pelteobagrus and Pseudobagrus". Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters. 18 (1): 9–16.