Pseudolaguvia

Ralf Britz & Carl J. Ferraris, Jr., 2003, A new species of the Asian catfish genus Pseudolaguvia from Myanmar (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Erethistidae)., Zootaxa 388, pp. 1-8 : 1

[[ Genus Pseudolaguvia ]]

Pseudolaguvia tuberculata was originally described by Prashad and Mukerji (1929) in their monograph on the fishes of the Indawgyi area in Upper Myanmar, as a species of the genus Glyptothorax . This new species was said to differ from other Glyptothorax species in the presence of a humero-cubital and scapular process and thus resembled the genera Erethistes and Laguvia more closely. Because of its unusual features, Misra (1976) erected the new genus Pseudolaguvia to accommodate G. tuberculatus . Pseudolaguvia has since remained monotypic.

Recent collections of fishes obtained from Pathe Chaung, a little hill stream near Taungoo in southern Myanmar, revealed specimens of an undescribed species, which resembles Pseudolaguvia tuberculata and is described herein.