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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.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderSiluriformes
  5. FamilySiluridae
Habitatmarine, freshwater

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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

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