Mystus

Mystus is a genus of fish in the family Bagridae native to Asia.^[1] Phylogenetic relationships within this genus are poorly understood, though it has been suggested that there are two major lineages.^[2]

Mystus
Mystus gulio
Mystus nigriceps
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Bagridae
Genus:	Mystus Scopoli, 1777
Type species
Bagrus pelusius Solander, 1794
Synonyms
Aspidobagrus Bleeker, 1862 Heterobagrus Bleeker, 1864 Hypselobagrus Bleeker, 1862 Prajadhipokia Fowler, 1934

Species

There are currently 46 recognized species in this genus:

• Mystus abbreviatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
• Mystus alasensis H. H. Ng & Hadiaty, 2005
• Mystus albolineatus T. R. Roberts, 1994
• Mystus ankutta Pethiyagoda, N. K. A. Silva & Maduwage, 2008
• Mystus armatus (F. Day, 1865) ^[3]
• Mystus atrifasciatus Fowler, 1937
• Mystus bimaculatus (Volz, 1904)
• Mystus bleekeri (F. Day, 1877)
• Mystus bocourti (Bleeker, 1864)
• Mystus canarensis S. Grant, 1999
• Mystus carcio (F. Hamilton, 1822) ^[4]
• Mystus castaneus H. H. Ng, 2002
• Mystus catapogon Plamoottil, 2016 ^[5]
• Mystus cavasius (F. Hamilton, 1822)
• Mystus cineraceus H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 2009
• Mystus dibrugarensis (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1913) ^[6]
• Mystus falcarius Chakrabarty & H. H. Ng, 2005
• Mystus gulio (F. Hamilton, 1822)
• Mystus heoki Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013 ^[7]
• Mystus horai Jayaram, 1954
• Mystus impluviatus H. H. Ng, 2003
• Mystus indicus Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013 ^[7]
• Mystus irulu Vijayakrishnan and Praveenraj. 2022^[8]
• Mystus keletius (Valenciennes, 1840)
• Mystus keralai Plamoottil, 2014 (Kerala Mystus)
• Mystus leucophasis (Blyth, 1860)
• Mystus malabaricus (Jerdon, 1849)
• Mystus menoni Plamoottil, 2013 (Idukki Mystus)
• Mystus montanus (Jerdon, 1849)
• Mystus multiradiatus T. R. Roberts, 1992
• Mystus mysticetus T. R. Roberts, 1992
• Mystus nanus Sudasinghe, Pethiyagoda, Maduwage & Meegaskumbura, 2016 ^[9]
• Mystus ngasep Darshan, Vishwanath, Mahanta & Barat, 2011 ^[10]
• Mystus nigriceps (Valenciennes, 1840)
• Mystus oculatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
• Mystus pelusius (Solander, 1794)
• Mystus prabani Darshan, Abujam, Humar, Parhi, Singh, et al. 2019 ^[11]
• Mystus pulcher (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1911)
• Mystus punctifer H. H. Ng, Wirjoatmodjo & Hadiaty, 2001
• Mystus rhegma Fowler, 1935
• Mystus rufescens (Vinciguerra, 1890)
• Mystus seengtee (Sykes, 1839)
• Mystus singaringan (Bleeker, 1846)
• Mystus tengara (F. Hamilton, 1822) ^[12]
• Mystus velifer H. H. Ng, 2012 ^[13]
• Mystus vittatus (Bloch, 1794)
• Mystus wolffii (Bleeker, 1851)
• Mystus zeylanicus H. H. Ng & Pethiyagoda, 2013 ^[14]

References

1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Mystus in FishBase. October 2016 version.
2. Chakrabarty, Prosanta; Ng, Heok HEE (2005). "The identity of catfishes identified as Mystus cavasius (Hamilton, 1822) (Teleostei: Bagridae), with a description of a new species from Myanmar". Zootaxa. 1093: 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1093.1.1.
3. Plamoottil, M. & Abraham, N.P. (2014): Rediscovery and redescription of Mystus armatus Day. International Journal of Research in Fisheries and Aquaculture, 4 (1): 18-23.
4. Darshan, A., Anganthoibi, N. & Vishwanath, Waikhom (2010): Redescription of the striped catfish Mystus carcio (Hamilton) (Siluriformes: Bagridae). Zootaxa, 2475: 48–54.
5. Plamoottil, M. (2016): Mystus catapogon, a new catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) species from Kerala, India. Journal of Research in Biology, 6 (2): 1967-1976.
6. Bailung, B. & Biswas, S.P. (2015): New description of a Bagrid Catfish Mystus dibrugarensis (Chaudhuri, 1913) from Dihing river of Upper Assam. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies, 2 (3): 204-206.
7. Plamoottil, M. & Abraham, N.P. (2013): Mystus indicus and M. heoki, two new catfishes from Kerala, India. Biosystematica, 7 (1): 43-58.
8. Vijayakrishnan, Balaji; Praveenraj, Jayasimhan (2022). "Mystus irulu, a new species of bagrid catfish from the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India (Teleostei: Bagridae)". Zootaxa. 5120 (3): 443–448. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5120.3.10. PMID 35391156. S2CID 247772846.
9. Sudasinghe, H., Pethiyagoda, R., Maduwage, K. & Meegaskumbura, M. (2016): Mystus nanus, a new striped catfish from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Bagridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (2): 163-172.
10. Darshan, A., Vishwanath, W., Mahanta, P.C. & Barat, A. (2011): Mystus ngasep, a new catfish species (Teleostei: Bagridae) from the headwaters of Chindwin drainage in Manipur, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3 (11): 2177–2183.
11. Darshan, Achom; Abujam, Santoshkumar; Kumar, Ram; Parhi, Janmejay; Singh, Yambem Suresh; Vishwanath, Waikhom; Das, Debangshu Narayan; Pandey, Pramod Kumar (2019-07-31). "Mystus prabini , a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) from Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern, India". Zootaxa. 4648 (3): 511–522. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4648.3.6. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31716938. S2CID 201208285.
12. Darshan, A., Mahanta, P.C., Barat, A. & Kumar, P. (2013): Redescription of the Striped Catfish Mystus tengara (Hamilton, 1822) (Siluriformes: Bagridae), India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 5 (1): 3536–3541.
13. Ng, H.H. (2012). "Mystus velifer, a new species of catfish from Indochina (Teleostei: Bagridae)". Zootaxa. 3398 (1): 58–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3398.1.4.
14. Ng, H.H. & Pethiyagoda, R. (2013): Mystus zeylanicus, a new species of bagrid catfish from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Bagridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (2): 161-170.