Pelteobagrus

Pelteobagrus
Pelteobagrus ornatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Division:	Teleostei
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Bagridae
Genus:	Pelteobagrus Bleeker, 1865

Pelteobagrus is a doubtful genus of bagrid catfishes found in eastern Asia. The taxonomy of this genus is unclear and many authorities treat it as a junior synonym of Tachysurus and the type species of the genus, is Silurus calvarius which is a synonym of Tachysurus sinensis.

Species

The following species have been in Pelteobagrus at some point:

• Pelteobagrus argentivittatus (Regan, 1905); valid as Tachysurus argentivittatus
• Pelteobagrus brashnikowi (Berg, 1907); valid as Tachysurus brashnikowi
• Pelteobagrus crassilabris (Günther, 1864); valid as Tachysurus crassilabris
• Pelteobagrus crassirostris (Regan, 1913); valid as Tachysurus crassirosris
• Pelteobagrus eupogon (Boulenger, 1892); valid as Tachysurus eupogon
• Pelteobagrus fui (Miao, 1934); valid as Tachysurus fui
• Pelteobagrus fulvidraco (Richardson, 1846); valid as Tachysurus sinensis Lacepède, 1803
• Pelteobagrus intermedius (Nichols & Pope, 1927); valid as Tachysurus intermedius
• Pelteobagrus kyphus (Mai, 1978); valid as Tachysurus kyphus
• Pelteobagrus mica (Gromov, 1970); valid as Tachysurus mica
• Pelteobagrus microps (Rendahl, 1933); valid as Tachysurus microps
• Pelteobagrus nitidus (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874); valid as Tachysurus nitidus
• Pelteobagrus nudiceps (Sauvage, 1883); valid as Tachysurus nudiceps
• Pelteobagrus ornatus (Duncker, 1904); valid as Hyalobagrus ornatus
• Pelteobagrus ransonnettii (Steindachner, 1887); valid as Tachysurus aurantiacus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
• Pelteobagrus tenuifurcatus (Nichols, 1931); valid as Tachysurus tenuifurcatus
• Pelteobagrus tonkinensis Nguyen, 2006; valid as Tachysurus tonkinensis
• Pelteobagrus ussuriensis (Dybowski, 1872); valid as Tachysurus ussuriensis
• Pelteobagrus vachellii (Richardson, 1846); valid as Tachysurus vachellii
• Pelteobagrus virgatus (Oshima, 1926); valid as Tachysurus virgatus
• Pelteobagrus wangi (Miao, 1934); species inquirenda in Tachysurus
• Pelteobagrus wittenburgii (Popta, 1911); valid as Tachysurus sinensis Lacepède, 1803

FishBase currently shows two valid species in this genus, P. eupogon and P. tonkinensis.

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