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Zhou Hang (4) Allan James (1) Stuart Brown (2)

Description: Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal soft rays: 18 - 19. Nude without scale, complete lateral line. Well developed dorsal fin, adipose fin about 1.4-2.8 times the length of the dorsal fin, nearly arc-shaped. Colouration: Yellowish brown in colour, with three dark yellowish lateral strips in the side (trilineatus). One of the strips along the lateral line is discontinued. Etymology: The genus name of Tachysurus: tachys, swift; oura, tail, referring to the presumed agility of T. sinensis based on its “long and nimble” tail (translation). The specific name of trilineatus: ri-, three; lineatus, lined, referring to three yellowish lines on each side of body. Remarks: Still valid in some publications as Pseudobagrus trilineatus but Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes has Tachysurus as the current genus name with Pseudobagrus trilineatus as a junior synonym.

Highway Catfish

Pseudobagrus trilineatus, Leiocassis trilineatus.

Bagridae

Asia: China, Dongjiang basin. Type locality: Mountain stream in Luofu Shan, Boluo Xian, Guangdong Province, China.

7.5cm. (3ins)

15-25°C (57-77°F)

6.0-7.5.

Ferraris, C.J. Jr. 2007 Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418:1-628.
Gao, G. 1991 Bagridae. p. 297-317. In J.-H. Pan, L. Zhong, C.-Y. Zheng, H.-L. Wu and J.-H. Liu (eds). 1991. The freshwater fishes of Guangdong Province. Guangdong Science and Technology Press, Guangzhou. 589 pp.
The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf.