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Tachysurus

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Tachysurus is a genus of bagrid catfishes found in eastern Asia and as a fossil in Africa. The currently recognized species in this genus are: Tachysurus adiposalis (Ōshima, 1919) Tachysurus albomarginatus (Rendahl, 1928) Tachysurus analis (Nichols, 1930) Tachysurus argentivittatus (Regan, 1905) Tachysurus aurantiacus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) Tachysurus brachyrhabdion (Cheng, Ishihara & Zhang, 2008) Tachysurus brashnikowi (Berg, 1907) - Brazhnikov's catfish Tachysurus brevianalis (Regan, 1908) Tachysurus brevicaudatus (Wu, 1930) Tachysurus brevicorpus (Mori, 1936) - Korean stumpy

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderSiluriformes
  5. FamilyBagridae
Habitatbrackish, freshwater
Observations recorded7,455

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
36
With media
12
Family
Bagridae
Collections
CAS, FMNH, SIO, MNHN, USNM, ZMO
Recorded in
United States, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mexico, Egypte, Philippines, Brazil, Cambodge

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Tachysurus is a genus of bagrid catfishes found in eastern Asia and as a fossil in Africa. The currently recognized species in this genus are: Tachysurus adiposalis (Ōshima, 1919) Tachysurus albomarginatus (Rendahl, 1928) Tachysurus analis (Nichols, 1930) Tachysurus argentivittatus (Regan, 1905) Tachysurus aurantiacus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) Tachysurus brachyrhabdion (Cheng, Ishihara & Zhang, 2008) Tachysurus brashnikowi (Berg, 1907) - Brazhnikov's catfish Tachysurus brevianalis (Regan, 1908) Tachysurus brevicaudatus (Wu, 1930) Tachysurus brevicorpus (Mori, 1936) - Korean stumpy bullhead Tachysurus crassilabris (Günther, 1864) Tachysurus dumerili (Bleeker, 1846) - Chinese longsnout catfish Tachysurus emarginatus (Regan, 1913) Tachysurus eupogon (Boulenger, 1892) Tachysurus flumendraco Chen, Liu & Yeh, 2024 Tachysurus fui (Miao, 1934) Tachysurus gracilis Jie Li, X. L. Chen & B. P. L. Chan, 2005 Tachysurus herzensteini (Berg, 1907) - Herzenstein's catfish Tachysurus hoi (Pellegrin & Fang, 1940) Tachysurus ichikawai (Okada & Kubota, 1957) - Neko-gigi Tachysurus intermedius (Nichols & Pope, 1927) Tachysurus kaifenensis (T. L. Tchang, 1934) Tachysurus koreanus Uchida, 1990 Tachysurus kyphus Đ. Y. Mai, 1978 Tachysurus landanensis Dartevelle and Casier, 1943 (fossil, Eocene of Zaire) Tachysurus lani Cheng, Shao, López & Zhang, 2021 Tachysurus latifrontalis Shao & Zhang, 2022 Tachysurus longibarbus (Cui, 1990) Tachysurus medianalis (Regan, 1904) Tachysurus mica (Gromov, 1970) Tachysurus microcrassirostris (Xiao, 2010) Tachysurus microps (Rendahl (de), 1932) Tachysurus nitidus (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874) Tachysurus nubilosus H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2007 Tachysurus nudiceps (Sauvage, 1883) Tachysurus omeihensis (Nichols, 1941) Tachysurus pratti (Günther, 1892) Tachysurus similis (Nichols, 1926) Tachysurus sinensis Lacépède, 1803 - yellow catfish or Korean bullhead Tachysurus spilotus H. H. Ng, 2009 Tachysurus ussuriensis (Dybowski, 1872) - Ussuri catfish Tachysurus virgatus (Ōshima, 1926) Synonyms Tachysurus fulvidraco (J. Richardson, 1846); valid as Tachysurus sinensis Incertae sedis Tachysurus hirsutus (Herre, 1934) Tachysurus longispinalis (V. H. Nguyễn, 2006) Tachysurus tonkinensis (V. H. Nguyễn, 2006) Tachysurus vachellii (Richardson, 1846) Tachysurus yeni (V. H. Nguyễn & H. D. Nguyễn, 2006) Tachysurus zhangfei Shao, Cheng & Zhang, 2021 ==References==

Category:Bagridae Category:Fish of Asia Category:Catfish genera Category:Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède Category:Freshwater fish genera

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