Pseudecheneis

Taxobox
name = "Pseudecheneis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Siluriformes
familia = Sisoridae
subfamilia = Glyptosterninae
tribus = Pseudecheneidina
tribus_authority = de Pinna, 1996
genus = "Pseudecheneis"
genus_authority = Blyth, 1860
type_species = "Glyptothorax sulcatus"
type_species_authority = McClelland, 1842
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "P. brachyurus" cite journal|url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/56/56rbz107-124.pdf|title=A review of the catfish genus "Pseudecheneis" (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) from China, with the description of four new species from Yunnan|first=Wei |last=Zhou |coauthors= Xu Li & Ying Yang |journal=The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology | volume=56 | issue=1| pages=107–124|year=2008|format=PDF]
"P. crassicauda" cite journal|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2005f/zt01047p019.pdf|title=Two new species of "Pseudecheneis", rheophilic catfishes (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Nepal|first=Heok Hee|last=Ng|coauthors=Edds, David R.|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1047|pages=1–19|year=2005|format=PDF]
"P. eddsi" cite journal|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/zt01254p068.pdf|title=The identity of "Pseudecheneis sulcata" (M’Clelland, 1842), with descriptions of two new species of rheophilic catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Nepal and China|first=Heok Hee|last=Ng|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1254|pages=45–68|year=2006|format=PDF]
"P. gracilis"
"P. immaculatus"
"P. longipectoralis"
"P. maurus" cite journal|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01406p032.pdf|title="Pseudecheneis maurus", a new species of glyptosternine catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Central Vietnam|first=Heok Hee|last=Ng|coauthors=Tan, Heok Hui|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1406|pages=25–32|year=2007|format=PDF]
"P. paucipunctatus"
"P. paviei"
"P. serracula"
"P. sirenica" cite journal|last=Vishwanath|first=W|coauthors=Darshan, A.|year=2007|title=Two new catfish species of the genus "Pseudecheneis" Blyth (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from northeastern India|journal=Zoos' Print Journal|volme=22|issue=3|pages=2627–2631]
"P. stenura"
"P. sulcatoides"
"P. sulcata"
"P. suppaetula"cite journal|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/zt01267p068.pdf|title="Pseudecheneis suppaetula", a new species of glyptosternine catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from India|first=Heok Hee|last=Ng|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1267|pages=59–68|year=2006|format=PDF]
"P. sympelvica"
"P. tchangi"
"P. ukhrulensis"
synonyms =
*"Parapseudecheneis"
Hora, in Hora & Chabanaud, 1930
*"Propseudecheneis"
Hora, 1937

"Pseudecheneis" is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Sisoridae.

Distribution

"Pseudecheneis" species are rheophilic fish that occur in the headwaters of major river drainages throughout South and Southeast Asia. They are found in the upper reaches of rivers throughout the Subhimalayan and Indochinese region. They are distributed in the Ganges and Brahmaputra drainages of northern India and Nepal and eastwards to the Ailao Mountains along the upper Red River drainage of Vietnam and the Annamese Cordillera. "P. maurus" represents the first record of the genus on the rivers draining to the eastern face of the Annamese Cordillera.

Description

"Pseudecheneis" species are easily distinguished among sisorids in having a thoracic adhesive apparatus consisting of a series of transverse ridges (laminae) separated by grooves (sulcae). The dorsal and pectoral fins have one spine each. The head is short and anteriorly depressed with a sharp snout and small mouth. The lips are thick, fleshy, and papillate. The body is elongate, from moderately to greatly depressed. The eyes are small and dorsally-located. The skin is smooth. Mouth small. The maxillary barbels are very short. The mandibular barbels are papillate. The gill openings are narrow. Paired fins are plaited to form an adhesive apparatus.cite journal|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/zt01345p096.pdf|title=Genera of the Asian Catfish Families Sisoridae and Erethistidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes)|first=Alfred W.|last=Thomson|coauthors=Page, Lawrence M.|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1345|pages=1–96|year=2006|format=PDF]

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