Provisional checklist of freshwater fish diversity and distribution in Perak, Malaysia, and some latest taxonomic concerns
Author
Ng, Casey Keat Chuan
Author
Lim, Teow Yeong
Author
Ahmad, Amirrudin
Author
Khaironizam, Md Zain
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-03-18
4567
3
515
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journal article
28342
10.11646/zootaxa.4567.3.5
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Paedocypris
sp.
Paedocypris
sp.: Authors’ data (Pondok Tanjung).
Remarks.
Following
Kottelat
et al.
(2006)
, we confirm that the diminutive species encountered in 2000 by the third author and again in 2006 by the second author in Pondok Tanjung belongs to the genus
Paedocypris
(
Fig. 4
). Although
Mayden & Chen (2010)
and
Fricke
et al.
(2018)
have classified the genus
Paedocypris
as belonging to the
Paedocyprididae
family, we have placed it under the
Cyprinidae
family in our checklist following
Britz
et al.
(2014)
i.e. we assume there is an error in
Fricke
et al.
(2018)
. Currently, literature review indicates that the enigmatic genus
Paedocypris
hosts three species with a maximum standard length of
10–12 mm
, namely
P. progenetica
(from Jambi, Sumatra),
P. micromegethes
(from central
Sarawak
) and
P. carbunculus
(from Central Kalimantan) (
Kottelat
et al.
, 2006
;
Britz & Kottelat, 2008
). Due to the presence of cartilaginous skeletal characters which characterizes the larval-like species, we could not further investigate the status of the specimens found in
Perak
as we lack the necessary high-resolution visual and scanning electron microscope (SEM) equipment at this point of time.