Tachysurus (lat.) Is a genus of fresh-water ray-finned fish from the family of killer whales , inhabiting Asia and one species in Europe [1] .
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Description
Adult individuals of the genus grow from 5 to 66 cm [1] . They are characterized by one pair of maxillary and two pairs of mandibular antennae and palatine teeth , which can be conical, villous or granular [2] . In the gallbladder, myxosporidia Thelohanellus coeli , Kudoa tachysurae , Kudoa bengalensis [3] , Thelohanellus auerbachi and Zschokkella platystomusi parasitize [4] . Gill parasites are monogenes of Chauhanellus chauhani [5] .
Classification
As of June 2019, 13 species are included in the genus:
- Tachysurus adiposalis ( Oshima , 1919)
- Tachysurus argentivittatus ( Regan , 1905)
- Tachysurus brashnikowi ( Berg , 1907)
- Tachysurus dumerili ( Bleeker , 1864)
- Tachysurus fulvidraco ( Richardson , 1846) - Killer Whale
- Tachysurus herzensteini (Berg, 1907)
- Tachysurus hoi ( Pellegrin & Fang , 1940)
- Tachysurus longispinalis ( Nguyen , 2005)
- Tachysurus nitidus ( Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant , 1874)
- Tachysurus nudiceps (Sauvage, 1883)
- Tachysurus sinensis Lacépède , 1803
- Tachysurus spilotus Ng , 2009
- Tachysurus virgatus (Oshima, 1926)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Tachysurus in the FishBase database. (Retrieved July 23, 2019) .
- ↑ Gopinatha Menon N. and Bande VN Taxonomic considerations and general distribution of commercially important catfishes (English) // CMFRI bulletin. - 1987. - Vol. 40 . - P. 5-11 .
- ↑ Sarkar NK & Mazumder SK Studies on Myxosporidian Parasites (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) from Marine Fishes in West Bengal, India. I. Description of Three New Species from Tachysurus spp. (English) // Archiv für Protistenkunde: journal. - 1983. - Vol. 127 , no. 1 . - P. 59-63 . - DOI : 10.1016 / S0003-9365 (83) 80005-0 .
- ↑ Sarkar NK Studies on Myxosporidian Parasites (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) from Marine Fishes in West Bengal, India. II. Description of Two New Species from Tachysurus platystomus (Day ) // Archiv für Protistenkunde: journal. - 1987. - Vol. 133 , no. 1-2 . - P. 151-155 . - DOI : 10.1016 / S0003-9365 (87) 80048-9 .
- ↑ Venkatanarsaiah J. & Kulkarni T. A new species of the genus Chauhanellus Bychowsky et Nagibina, 1969 (Monogenea) from the gills of a sea fish Tachysurus dussumieri (Val.) From Andhra Pradesh, India (Eng.) // Folia parasitologica: journal. - 1990. - Vol. 37 , no. 3 . - P. 267-270 .
Links
- The genus Tachysurus (English) in the World Register of Marine Species . (Retrieved July 23, 2019) .