Misplaced Pages

Oreoglanis macronemus

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Species of fish

Oreoglanis macronemus
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Sisoridae
Genus: Oreoglanis
Species: O. macronemus
Binomial name
Oreoglanis macronemus
H. H. Ng, 2004

Oreoglanis macronemus is a species of sisorid catfish. It is known only from four preserved specimens collected from the Xiangkhoang Plateau, northern Laos, by an expedition led by Jean Théodore Delacour in the mid-1920s and misidentified as Euchiloglanis sp. These specimens are in the Natural History Museum, London.

This is a very small catfish (the largest specimen, a male, has a standard length of 6.5 centimetres (2.6 in)), generally smaller than most other Oreoglanis species (although the small sample size makes this distinction largely irrelevant). The main difference between this species and its congeners is its extremely long nasal barbels, almost half the length of the head.

References

  1. Huckstorf, V. (2012). "Oreoglanis macronemus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. IUCN: e.T181140A1702764. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T181140A1702764.en. Retrieved 15 January 2018.

Further reading

Taxon identifiers
Oreoglanis macronemus


Stub icon

This Sisoridae-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories:
Oreoglanis macronemus Add topic