Oreoglanis macronemus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Siluriformes
- Family
- Sisoridae
- Genus
- Oreoglanis
- Species
- Oreoglanis macronemus
- Scientific Name
- Oreoglanis macronemus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Oreoglanis macronemus
Oreoglanis macronemus is a species of sisorid catfish. It is known only from four preserved specimens collected from the Xiangkhoang Plateau, northern Laos, by an expedition led by Jean Théodore Delacour in the mid-1920s and misidentified as Euchiloglanis sp. These specimens are in the Natural History Museum, London.
This is a very small catfish (the largest specimen, a male, has a standard length of 6.5 centimetres (2.6 in)), generally smaller than most other Oreoglanis species (although the small sample size makes this distinction largely irrelevant). The main difference between this species and its congeners is its extremely long nasal barbels, almost half the length of the head.
...Oreoglanis macronemus in languages:
- Czech
- sisora nitková
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Oreoglanis colurus
- Oreoglanis delacouri
- Oreoglanis frenata
- Oreoglanis heteropogon
- Oreoglanis hponkanensis
- Oreoglanis hypsiura
- Oreoglanis immaculata
- Oreoglanis infulata
- Oreoglanis insignis
- Oreoglanis jingdongensis
- Oreoglanis laciniosa
- Oreoglanis lepturus
- Oreoglanis macronemus
- Oreoglanis macroptera
- Oreoglanis majuscula
- Oreoglanis nakasathiani
- Oreoglanis omkoiensis
- Oreoglanis pangenensis
- Oreoglanis setigera
- Oreoglanis siamensis
- Oreoglanis sudarai
- Oreoglanis suraswadii
- Oreoglanis tenuicauda
- Oreoglanis vicina