Occurrence of the genus Amblyceps Blyth (Teleostei: Amblycipitidae) from the Indo-Bhutan streams of the Brahmaputra drainage of Assam, India
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Three species of the genus Amblyceps, namely, A. apangi, A. arunachalensis, A. mangois are described from Kanamakra and Langkhar (26°45?0? ? 26°48?0?N and 90°35?0? ? 90°40?0?E) hill streams of Chirang district of Assam. The torrent catfishes are distinguished within the genera on the basis of their general appearance of the body and the caudal fin structure, adipose fin, eye diameter, inter-orbital space, fold on lip and number of vertebrae. The caudal peduncle height for A. apangi (12.36 ? 12.73% SL), A. mangois (14.25 ? 15.36% SL) and A. arunachalensis
(10.01 ? 11.42% SL), caudal peduncle length for A. apangi (20.29 ? 20.87% SL), A. arunachalensis (22.00 ? 22.11% SL) and A. mangois (19.09 ? 19.31% SL) and other taxonomic details of the congeners with their distributional status are discussed.
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Brahmaputra drainage, Catfish diversity, Foot hill streams, Siluriformes
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Chaudhuri, B. L. (1919). Report on a small collection of fish from Putao (Hkamti Long) on the northern frontier of Burma, Records of the Indian Museum, 16: 271 ? 287.
Chen, X. and Lundberg, J. G. (1995). Xiurenbagrus, a new genus of amblycipitid catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes), and phylogenetic relationships among the genera of Amblycipitidae. Copeia, 4: 780 ? 800.
Day, F. (1878). The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and freshwaters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. William Dowson & Co., London, pp. 778.
Hamilton, F. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. Archibald Constable, Edinburgh and Hurst, Robinson, London: 405.
Hollister, G. (1934). Clearing and dyeing fishes for bone study. Zoologica, 12: 89 ? 101.
Hora, S. L. (1933). Siluroid fishes of India, Burma and Ceylon, Part I. Loach-like fishes of the genus Amblyceps Blyth. Records of the Indian Museum, 35: 607 ? 621.
Humtsoe, N. L. and Bordoloi, S. (2009). Study on torrential catfish Amblyceps apangi Nath and Dey 1989 (Teleostei: amblycipitidae) from Wokha district, Nagaland. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 1(2): 109 ? 113.
Jayaram, K. C. (1999). The fresh water fishes of the Indian region. Narendra Publishing House, Delhi: pp. 551.
McClelland, J. (1842). On the Fresh water fishes collected by William Griffith, Esq., F. L. S. Madras Medical Service, during his travels under the orders of the Supreme Government of India, from 1835 to 1842. Calcutta Journal of Natural History, II: 560 ?589.
Misra, K. S. (1976). Teleostomi: Cypriniformes; Siluriformes. In: The Director, Zoological Survey of India (Ed.). The fauna of India and the adjacent countries pisces (2nd edition) vol. III. The Controller of Publications, Delhi: xxi + 367 pp.
Nath, P. and Dey, S. C. (1989). Two new fish species of the genus Amblyceps Blyth from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Journal of the Assam Science Society, 32: 1-6.
Nath, P. and Dey, S. C. (2000). Fish and Fisheries of North Eastern India (Arunachal Pradesh). Narendra Publishing House, Delhi: 217.
Ng, H. H. and Kottelat, M. (2000). A review of the genus Amblyceps (Osteichthyes: Amblycipitidae) in Indochina, with descriptions of five new species. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 14: 335 ? 348.
Ng, H. H. (2001). Amblyceps macropterus, a new species of Amblycipitid catfish (Osteichthys: Amblycipitidae) from Pakistan. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 12: 201 ? 204.
Ng, H. H. (2005). Amblyceps carinatum, a new species of hillstream catfish from Myanmar (Teleostei: Amblycipitidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (2): 243 ? 249.
Roberts, T. R. (1989). The freshwater fishes of Western Borneo (Kalimantan, Barat, Indonesia). Memoirs of the California Academy of Science, 14: 1 ? 210.
Shaw, G. E. and Shebbeare, E. O. (1937). The fishes of northern Bengal. Journal Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Science, 5(3): 35 ? 36
Sen, T. K. (1985). The fish fauna of Assam and the neighbouring North-eastern states of India. Records of Zoological Survey of India, Occasional paper No.64: 1 ? 216.
Talwar, P. K. and Jhingran, A. G. (1991). Inland Fishes of India and adjacent countries. In 2 vols. Oxford and IBH publishing House, New Delhi: xx+1158 pp.
Vishwanath, W. and Linthoingambi, I. (2007). Redescription of catfishes Amblyceps arunachalensis and Amblyceps apangi Nath and Dey (Teleostei: Amblyceptidae). Zoos’ Print Journal, 22(4): 2662 ? 2664.
Vishwanath, W. and Linthoingambi, I. (2008). Two new catfish species of the genus Amblyceps from Manipur, India (Teleostei: Amblycipitidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 19(2): 167 ? 174.
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Occurrence of the genus Amblyceps Blyth (Teleostei: Amblycipitidae) from the Indo-Bhutan streams of the Brahmaputra drainage of Assam, India. (2014). Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 6(1), 177-181. https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.v6i1.396
