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Description: This species was first 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. Etymology: Erithistes, Etymology not explained, presumably erethizon, porcupine and–istes, adjectival suffix, i.e., porcupine-like, referring to strong and serrated dorsal and pectoral-fin spines. The species epithet longissimus means longest, referring to the relatively long caudal peduncle. Remarks: Fishbase and some other online sources still have this species as Hara longissima but this name is treated as a synomyn in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes where the current valiidity is Erethistes longissimus and placed in the Sisoridae family.

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Hara longissima

Sisoridae

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

7.5cm. (3ins)

20-25°C (67-77°F)

6.0-7.2.

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.
The ETYFish Project. Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.