Tachysurus

Tachysurus
Tachysurus fulvidraco
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Bagridae
Genus:
Lacépède, 1803
Type species
Tachysurus sinensis
Lacépède, 1803
Synonyms[1]
  • Adelopeltis Dabry de Thiersant, 1872
  • Coreobagrus Mori, 1936
  • Dermocassis (subgenus of Leiocassis) Nichols, 1925
  • Fluvidraco Jordan & Fowler, 1903
  • Nasocassis (subgenus of Leiocassis) Nichols, 1925
  • Pelteobagrus Bleeker, 1864
  • Pseudobagrus Bleeker, 1858
  • Rhinobagrus Bleeker, 1865

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:[2]

  • 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[3]
  • 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[4]
  • 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

  1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Bagridae". Catalog of Fishes (genera). California Academy of Sciences.
  2. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Tachysurus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  3. ^ Li, Jie; Chen, Xianglin; Chan, Bosco P.L. (2005). "A new species of Pseudobagrus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Bagridae) from southern China" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1067: 49–57. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1067.1.3. S2CID 86000113.
  4. ^ Ng, Heok Hee; Freyhof, Jörg (March 2007). "Pseudobagrus nubilosus, a new species of catfish from central Vietnam (Teleostei: Bagridae), with notes on the validity of Pelteobagrus and Pseudobagrus". Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters. 18 (1): 9–16.