Oreoglanis setigera

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Oreoglanis setigera is a species of catfish in the family Sisoridae found in Laos and China.{{cite journal | title=A review of the sisorid catfish genus Oreoglanis (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) with descriptions of four new species | date=2001 | last1=Ng | first1=Heok Hee | last2=Rainboth | first2=Walter J. | journal = Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan| number = 732 | pages = 1–34 | hdl=2027.42/57168 | url = https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/57168}}

Size

This species reaches a length of {{convert|6.9|cm|in|abbr=on}}.{{FishBase |genus= Oreoglanis |species= setigera| month = February | year = 2015}}

Etymology

The fishes name in Latin = seta or saeta (L.), hair or bristle; –igera (L.), to have or bear, i.e., bristly, referring to laciniate posterior margin of maxillary barbels.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/sisoridae/ | title = Family SISORIDAE Bleeker 1858 (Hillstream Catfishes) | access-date= 7 January 2025 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}

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