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Abhisek Mishra (4)

Description: The new species can be distinguished from its congeners in having a combination of the following characters: a deeply forked caudal fin, centrally projecting hooks on proximal lepidotrichia of median caudal-fin rays absent, jaws equal in length, lateral line absent, body depth at anus 15.1%–19.5% standard length (SL), caudal peduncle depth 13.0%–18.3% SL, adipose-fin base length 21.1%–27.1% SL, eye diameter 7.35%–14.1% head length and 38 total vertebrae. Habitat: Described from the Mahanadi River basin in Odisha, India. Aquarium Care: Best kept with larger Danio's such as "The Giant Danio" (Danio aquepinneatus) Barbs and Rasboras. Any medium sized fish that like water movement in the aquarium. Diet: In their natural habitat their diet consists of aquatic insects and larvae. In an aquarium set-up they like worm foods such as frozen bloodworm and whiteworm. They feed very much like the Tatia species from South America where they feed frantically on the move, twisting and turning to take the food. Sexual Diferences: Females have a pair of unbranched ovaries and are smaller than the males who have branched testes. Etymology: The genus name Amblyceps: Amblys = blunt; ceps = from caput head. The specific epithet crassioris: comes from the Latin adjective crassioris, meaning thicker, in reference to the relatively deeper body and deeper caudal peduncle of this species when compared to a majority of its congeners.

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Amblycipitidae

Asia: Mahanadi River basin in Odisha, India.

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18-22°C (63-71°F)

6.5-7.5.

Vijayakrishnan, B., & Jayasimhan, P. (2023). Amblyceps crassioris, a new sisoroid catfish from Odisha, India (Siluriformes: Amblycipitidae). Journal of Fish Biology, 1–8.