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Liobagrus anguillicauda Nichols, 1926

Image contributors to this species:

Chen et al 2024 (1)

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Description: Head depressed, flattish on top with a trough in the center, tail compressed; bones of head and nape deeply buried. Lips flaring, wrinkled; the upper jaw slightly the longer; eye superolateral, beneath the skin, placed over the end of the maxillary; maxillary barbel slightly shorter than the outer mental, which is situated immediately behind corner of mouth; the former, when laid back, does not reach gill-cleft by a distance greater than the diameter of the eve; gill openings wide; the membranes joining where they meet the isthmus. Dorsal origin slightly nearer snout than to tips of ventrals; ventrals placed well behind the dorsal; dorsal and pectoral spines
small, smooth, sheathed in the skin of the fins; pectoral reaching 32 the distance to ventral; ventral % to anal; adipose low, a mere keel in front; confluent with precurrent caudal rays behind; caudal rounded, subtruncate. Body, and especially fins, with the exception of the caudal, covered with lax skin; lateral line not evident. Colouration: Purplish grey; paler below; the end of caudal somewhat darker, its margin pale. Etymology: anguilla (L.), eel; cauda (L.), tail, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to adipose fin confluent with caudal fin, similar to confluent dorsal-caudal fins of anguillid eels.

Common Name:

None

Synonyms:

None

Family:

Amblycipitidae

Distribution:

East Asia: Streams of southeast China. Type locality: Chungan Hsien, nw. Fukien Prov., China.

Size:

8.5cm (3¼ins)

Temp:

18-22°C (63-71°F)

p.H.

6.5-7.5.

Reference:

Burgess, W.E., 1989. An atlas of freshwater and marine catfishes. A preliminary survey of the Siluriformes. T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Neptune City, New Jersey (USA). 784 p.
Chen Z-G, Guo Y-S, Dai Y-T, Huang X-C, Huang J-H, Jiang J, Ouyang S, Wen A-X, Wu X-P (2024) A new species of Liobagrus Hilgendorf, 1878 (Teleostei, Siluriformes, Amblycipitidae) from the lower Changjiang River basin in southeast China. Zoosystematics and Evolution 100(2): 555-563.
Ferraris, C.J. Jr., 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Fish in the News 2024.
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, ( 02/2024 ).

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Liobagrus anguillicauda

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