Pterocryptis
genus of fishes
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. P. buccata is a cavefish.
Species
There are currently 17 recognized species in this genus:
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 cochinchinensis (Valenciennes, 1840)
Pterocryptis crenula H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001
Pterocryptis furnessi (Fowler, 1905)
Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861
Pterocryptis indica (Datta, Barman & Jayaram, 1987)
Pterocryptis inusitata H. H. Ng, 1999
Pterocryptis neglecta (Endruweit, 2025)
Pterocryptis subrisa Ng, Lalramliana & Lalronunga, 2018
Pterocryptis taytayensis (Herre, 1924)
Pterocryptis verecunda H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001
Pterocryptis vorax Ng, Kahar & Tan, 2025
Pterocryptis wynaadensis (Day, 1873)
Synonyms
Pterocryptis torrentis (Kobayakawa, 1989); valid as P. berdmorei
Genomics
A near telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of Pterocryptis cochinchinensis was published in 2026, representing a high-quality reference genome for the genus. The genome is approximately 931.7 Mb in size, assembled into 28 chromosomes, with a BUSCO completeness of 96.7%, and 28,079 protein-coding genes functionally annotated.
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