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Issue: Vol. 2647 No. 1: 15 Oct. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-10-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2647.1.5
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 43
PDF downloaded: 4

Redescription of Silurus burmanensis Thant 1967: a Silurus not a Pterocryptis (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Siluridae)

Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
Hein Aquarium, Block 1033-1035, Duya Street, 43 Quarter, North Dagon Township, Yangon, Myanmar
Fish Yunnan Shan plateau endemism Lake Inle Burma Myanmar

Abstract

The silurid species Silurus burmanensis is redescribed based on a recently collected specimen from the type locality. Based on its characters we conclude that S. burmanensis is not a member of the genus Pterocryptis, as suggested previously, but a valid species of Silurus. It seems closely related to, but sufficiently distinct from, the two Yunnanese species of Silurus described by Regan (1904, 1907). Silurus burmanensis thus represents the southwestern most occurrence of a species of the genus Silurus in Asia.

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