Pterocryptis

Pterocryptis is a genus of sheatfish. These fish are medium-sized catfishes usually found in fast flowing mountain streams throughout India, southern China and Southeast Asia.^[1] There are two cavefish species in the genus, P. buccata and P. cucphuongensis.^[2]

Pterocryptis
Pterocryptis wynaadensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Siluridae
Genus:	Pterocryptis Peters, 1861
Type species
Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Apodoglanis Fowler, 1905 Hito Herre, 1924 Hitoichthys Herre 1924 Penesilurus Herre, 1924 Herklotsella Herre, 1933

Species

There are currently 17 recognized species in this genus:^[3]

• Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1934)
• Pterocryptis barakensis Vishwanath & Nebeshwar Sharma, 2006
• Pterocryptis berdmorei (Blyth, 1860)
• Pterocryptis bokorensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1937)
• Pterocryptis buccata H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 1998 (Cave sheatfish)
• Pterocryptis burmanensis (Thant, 1966)
• Pterocryptis cochinchinensis (Valenciennes, 1840)
• Pterocryptis crenula H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001
• Pterocryptis cucphuongensis (Mai, 1978)
• Pterocryptis furnessi (Fowler, 1905)
• Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861
• Pterocryptis indica (Datta, Barman & Jayaram, 1987)
• Pterocryptis inusitata H. H. Ng, 1999
• Pterocryptis taytayensis (Herre, 1924)
• Pterocryptis torrentis (Kobayakawa, 1989)
• Pterocryptis verecunda H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001
• Pterocryptis wynaadensis (Day, 1873)