Pterocryptis is a genus of sheatfish. These fish are medium-sized catfishes usually found in fast flowing mountain streams throughout India, southern China and Southeast Asia. P. buccata is a cavefish.
Species
There are currently 17 recognized species in this genus:
- Pterocryptis anomala <small>(Herre, 1934)</small>
- Pterocryptis barakensis <small>Vishwanath & Nebeshwar Sharma, 2006</small>
- Pterocryptis berdmorei <small>(Blyth, 1860)</small>
- Pterocryptis bokorensis <small>(Pellegrin & Chevey, 1937)</small>
- Pterocryptis buccata <small>H. H. Ng & Kottelat, 1998</small> (Cave sheatfish)
- Pterocryptis cochinchinensis <small>(Valenciennes, 1840)</small>
- Pterocryptis crenula <small>H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001</small>
- Pterocryptis furnessi <small>(Fowler, 1905)</small>
- Pterocryptis gangelica <small>Peters, 1861</small>
- Pterocryptis indica <small>(Datta, Barman & Jayaram, 1987)</small>
- Pterocryptis inusitata <small>H. H. Ng, 1999</small>
- Pterocryptis neglecta <small>(Endruweit, 2025)</small>
- Pterocryptis subrisa <small>Ng, Lalramliana & Lalronunga, 2018</small>
- Pterocryptis taytayensis <small>(Herre, 1924)</small>
- Pterocryptis verecunda <small>H. H. Ng & Freyhof, 2001</small>
- Pterocryptis vorax <small>Ng, Kahar & Tan, 2025</small>
- Pterocryptis wynaadensis <small>(Day, 1873)</small>
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