Ompok platyrhynchus, a new silurid catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Borneo.
Author
Heok Hee Ng
Author
Heok Hui Tan
text
Zootaxa
2004
580
1
11
http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:31D7F75E-946F-4C75-8409-FAAFC9BA086F
journal article
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[[
Ompok Lacepede
]]
The catfish genus
Ompok
Lacepede
, 1803
, refers to medium-sized silurid fishes found in inland waters throughout South and Southeast Asia. Bornbusch (1995) showed that
Ompok
, as currently understood, is probably paraphyletic. However, given the weak support for the monophyly of his clades, the taxonomy of
Ompok
is not stable enough to reassign any of the existing species to other genera.