mystus
{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Mystus gulio.jpg
| image_caption = Mystus gulio
| image2 = Myst cf nigri 080503 8432 napo.jpg
| image2_caption = Mystus nigriceps
| taxon = Mystus
| authority = Scopoli, 1777
| type_species = Bagrus pelusius
| type_species_authority = Solander, 1794
| synonyms =
- Aspidobagrus Bleeker, 1862
- Heterobagrus Bleeker, 1864
- Hypselobagrus Bleeker, 1862
- Prajadhipokia Fowler, 1934
}}
Mystus is a genus of fish in the family Bagridae native to Asia.{{FishBase_genus | genus = Mystus | month = October | year = 2016 }} Phylogenetic relationships within this genus are poorly understood, though it has been suggested that there are two major lineages.{{cite journal | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1093.1.1 | title=The identity of catfishes identified as Mystus cavasius (Hamilton, 1822) (Teleostei: Bagridae), with a description of a new species from Myanmar | year=2005 | last1=Chakrabarty | first1=Prosanta | last2=Ng | first2=Heok HEE | journal=Zootaxa | volume=1093 | page=1 | doi-access=free }}
Species
There are currently 62 recognized species in this genus:
- Mystus abbreviatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Mystus alasensis H. H. Ng & Hadiaty, 2005
- Mystus albolineatus T. R. Roberts, 1994
- Mystus ankutta Pethiyagoda, N. K. A. Silva & Maduwage, 2008
- Mystus armatus (F. Day, 1865) Plamoottil, M. & Abraham, N.P. (2014): Rediscovery and redescription of Mystus armatus Day. International Journal of Research in Fisheries and Aquaculture, 4 (1): 18-23.
- Mystus atrifasciatus Fowler, 1937
- Mystus bimaculatus (Volz, 1904)
- Mystus bleekeri (F. Day, 1877)
- Mystus bocourti (Bleeker, 1864)
- Mystus canarensis S. Grant, 1999
- Mystus carcio (F. Hamilton, 1822) Darshan, A., Anganthoibi, N. & Vishwanath, Waikhom (2010): [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02475p054f.pdf Redescription of the striped catfish Mystus carcio (Hamilton) (Siluriformes: Bagridae).] Zootaxa, 2475: 48–54.
- Mystus castaneus H. H. Ng, 2002
- Mystus catapogon Plamoottil, 2016 Plamoottil, M. (2016): Mystus catapogon, a new catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) species from Kerala, India. Journal of Research in Biology, 6 (2): 1967-1976.
- Mystus cavasius (F. Hamilton, 1822)
- Mystus cineraceus H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2009
- Mystus dibrugarensis (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1913) Bailung, B. & Biswas, S.P. (2015): New description of a Bagrid Catfish Mystus dibrugarensis (Chaudhuri, 1913) from Dihing river of Upper Assam. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies, 2 (3): 204-206.
- Mystus falcarius Chakrabarty & H. H. Ng, 2005
- Mystus gulio (F. Hamilton, 1822)
- Mystus heoki Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013 Plamoottil, M. & Abraham, N.P. (2013): Mystus indicus and M. heoki, two new catfishes from Kerala, India. Biosystematica, 7 (1): 43-58.
- Mystus horai Jayaram, 1954
- Mystus impluviatus H. H. Ng, 2003
- Mystus indicus Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013
- Mystus irulu Vijayakrishnan and Praveenraj. 2022{{cite journal | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5120.3.10 | title=Mystus irulu, a new species of bagrid catfish from the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India (Teleostei: Bagridae) | year=2022 | last1=Vijayakrishnan | first1=Balaji | last2=Praveenraj | first2=Jayasimhan | journal=Zootaxa | volume=5120 | issue=3 | pages=443–448 | pmid=35391156 | s2cid=247772846 }}
- Mystus keletius (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Mystus keralai Plamoottil, 2014 (Kerala Mystus)
- Mystus leucophasis (Blyth, 1860)
- Mystus malabaricus (Jerdon, 1849)
- Mystus menoni Plamoottil, 2013 (Idukki Mystus)
- Mystus montanus (Jerdon, 1849)
- Mystus multiradiatus T. R. Roberts, 1992
- Mystus mysticetus T. R. Roberts, 1992
- Mystus nanus Sudasinghe, Pethiyagoda, Maduwage & Meegaskumbura, 2016 Sudasinghe, H., Pethiyagoda, R., Maduwage, K. & Meegaskumbura, M. (2016): [http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/pdf/ief27_2_04.pdf Mystus nanus, a new striped catfish from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Bagridae).] Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (2): 163-172.
- Mystus ngasep Darshan, Vishwanath, Mahanta & Barat, 2011 Darshan, A., Vishwanath, W., Mahanta, P.C. & Barat, A. (2011): Mystus ngasep, a new catfish species (Teleostei: Bagridae) from the headwaters of Chindwin drainage in Manipur, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3 (11): 2177–2183.
- Mystus nigriceps (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Mystus oculatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Mystus pelusius (Solander, 1794)
- Mystus prabini {{Small|Darshan, Abujam, Humar, Parhi, Singh, et al. 2019}} {{Cite journal|last1=Darshan|first1=Achom|last2=Abujam|first2=Santoshkumar|last3=Kumar|first3=Ram|last4=Parhi|first4=Janmejay|last5=Singh|first5=Yambem Suresh|last6=Vishwanath|first6=Waikhom|last7=Das|first7=Debangshu Narayan|last8=Pandey|first8=Pramod Kumar|date=2019-07-31|title=Mystus prabini , a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) from Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern, India|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4648.3.6|journal=Zootaxa|language=en|volume=4648|issue=3|pages=511–522|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4648.3.6|pmid=31716938 |s2cid=201208285 |issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription}}
- Mystus pulcher (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1911)
- Mystus punctifer H. H. Ng, Wirjoatmodjo & Hadiaty, 2001
- Mystus rhegma Fowler, 1935
- Mystus rufescens (Vinciguerra, 1890)
- Mystus seengtee (Sykes, 1839)
- Mystus singaringan (Bleeker, 1846)
- Mystus tengara (F. Hamilton, 1822) Darshan, A., Mahanta, P.C., Barat, A. & Kumar, P. (2013): Redescription of the Striped Catfish Mystus tengara (Hamilton, 1822) (Siluriformes: Bagridae), India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 5 (1): 3536–3541.
- Mystus velifer H. H. Ng, 2012 {{cite journal |last1=Ng |first1=H.H. |title=Mystus velifer, a new species of catfish from Indochina (Teleostei: Bagridae) |journal=Zootaxa |date=2012 |volume=3398 |issue=1 |pages=58–68 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3398.1.4 |url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3398.1.4|url-access=subscription }}
- Mystus vittatus (Bloch, 1794)
- Mystus wolffii (Bleeker, 1851)
- Mystus zeylanicus H. H. Ng & Pethiyagoda, 2013 Ng, H.H. & Pethiyagoda, R. (2013): [http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/pdf/ief24_2_06.pdf Mystus zeylanicus, a new species of bagrid catfish from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Bagridae).] Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (2): 161-170.
- Mystus celator Ng & Kottelat, 2023
- Mystus armiger Ng, 2004
- Mystus chinensis (Steindachner, 1883)
- Mystus bagre Meuschen, 1778
- Mystus rubicauda Bardach, 1959
- Mystus pahangensis Herre, 1940
- Mystus ascita Walbaum, 1792
- Mystus cous Meuschen, 1778
- Mystus anguillaris Meuschen, 1778
- Mystus fasciatus Meuschen, 1778
- Mystus chitol Hamilton, 1841
- Mystus karipat Gray, 1831
- Mystus rubripinnis Vanarajan & Arunachalam, 2018
- Mystus cyrusi Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh, Zarei, Eagderi & Mousavi-Sabet, 2022
References
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