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Erethistes longissimus (Ng & Kottelat 2007)

 

Image contributors to this species:

Adrian Taylor (2) Allan James (1) Ian Fuller (1) Choy Heng Wah (1)

ScotCat Sources:

Other Sources:

Search  FishBase  Catalog of Fishes  Global Biodiversity Information Facility  FishNet2  iNaturalist

Relevant Information:

This species was referred to as Hara filamentosa mainly due to it having an exceedingly long extension to the top ray of the caudal fin, which was diagnosed as a prominent feature by Blyth in 1860 in his description of Hara filamentosa. However, Erethistes (Hara) filamentosa as diagnosed by Ng & Kottelat (2007) comes from an area further south and therefore from a different drainage system. In Ferraris 2007, Erithistes has been moved back to its original placement in the Sisoridae family which had been moved there by de Pinna in 1996, along with Conta, Erethistoides, Hara and Pseudolaguvia. At the present moment (Jan. 2010) there are still conflicting views on this species and family. Remarks: There are some publications that sight the Hara species as being relocated into the Sisoridae family due to a paper published in 2006 by Ichthyologists Alfred W Thompson & Lawrence M. Page of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Ferraris (2007) also stated that the Erethistidae be moved back into the Sisoridae family but we at ScotCat are at the moment (2021) still keeping it and the Erithistidae family until further scientific work is carried out on this poorly documented genera and family. Fishbase still has this species as Hara mesembrina but this name is treated as a synomyn in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes where the current valiidity is Erethistes longissimus and also placed in the Sisoridae family.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

Hara mesembrina

Family:

Erethistidae

Distribution:

Asia: Irrawaddy river drainage system; Kachin state, Myanmar (Burma).

Size:

7.5cm. (3ins)

Temp:

20-25°C (67-77°F)

p.H.

6.0-7.2.

Reference:

Adrian Taylor: pers. comm.
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.



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