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Oreoglanis hponkanensis

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Oreoglanis hponkanensis
Oreoglanis hponkanensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Sisoridae
Genus: Oreoglanis
Species:
O. hponkanensis
Binomial name
Oreoglanis hponkanensis

Oreoglanis hponkanensis is a species of catfish in the family Sisoridae found in Myanmar.[1][2][3]

Size

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This species reaches a length of 6.9 cm (2.7 in).[1]

Etymology

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The fishes name in Latin = –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Hponkanrazi Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Kachin state, in Myanmar, the type specimen locality[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Oreoglanis hponkanensis". FishBase. February 2015 version.
  2. ^ Ng, H.H. and W.J. Rainboth, 2001. A review of the sisorid catfish genus Oreoglanis (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) with descriptions of four new species. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (732):1-34.
  3. ^ Chen, X.-Y.; Qin, T.; Chen, Z.-Y. (2017). "Oreoglanis hponkanensis, a new sisorid catfish from north Myanmar (Actinopterygii, Sisoridae)". ZooKeys (646): 95–108. doi:10.3897/zookeys.646.11049. PMC 5299442. PMID 28228678.
  4. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family SISORIDAE Bleeker 1858 (Hillstream Catfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 January 2025.