A new species of the Asian catfish genus Pseudolaguvia from Myanmar (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Erethistidae).
Author
Ralf Britz
Author
Carl J. Ferraris, Jr.
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Zootaxa
2003
388
1
8
http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0C1903B1-BB29-4B0C-BED5-260802A6DAB1
journal article
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[[ Genus
Pseudolaguvia
]]
Pseudolaguvia tuberculata
was originally described by Prashad and Mukerji (1929) in their monograph on the fishes of the Indawgyi area in Upper Myanmar, as a species of the genus
Glyptothorax
. This new species was said to differ from other
Glyptothorax
species in the presence of a humero-cubital and scapular process and thus resembled the genera
Erethistes
and
Laguvia
more closely. Because of its unusual features, Misra (1976) erected the new genus
Pseudolaguvia
to accommodate
G. tuberculatus
.
Pseudolaguvia
has since remained monotypic.
Recent collections of fishes obtained from Pathe Chaung, a little hill stream near Taungoo in southern Myanmar, revealed specimens of an undescribed species, which resembles
Pseudolaguvia tuberculata
and is described herein.