Macrognathus tapirus Kottelat & Widjanarti 2005

Ng, Casey Keat Chuan, Lim, Teow Yeong, Ahmad, Amirrudin & Khaironizam, Md Zain, 2019, Provisional checklist of freshwater fish diversity and distribution in Perak, Malaysia, and some latest taxonomic concerns, Zootaxa 4567 (3), pp. 515-545 : 533

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4567.3.5
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scientific name	Macrognathus tapirus Kottelat & Widjanarti 2005
status

Treatment

Macrognathus aculeatus: Herre & Myers 1937: 74 (Bukit Merah reservoir).

Macrognathus tapirus : Authors’ data (Pondok Tanjung).

Remarks. Macrognathus aculeatus was previously considered widespread until Britz (2010) demonstrated it can be distinguished into 12 species. Specimens encountered in Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo are to be referred as M. tapirus ( Kottelat & Widjanarti, 2005) . Only specimens encountered in Java are to be identified as M. aculeatus .

References

Britz, R. (2010) Macrognathus aureus, a new spiny eel of the M. aculeatus species group from the Upper Ayeyarwaddy River Drainage, Myanmar (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae). Zootaxa, 2514, 55 - 60. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2514.1.5

Herre, A. W. C. T. & Myers, G. S. (1937) A contribution to the ichthyology of the Malay Peninsula. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, 13, 5 - 75.

Kottelat, M. & Widjanarti, E. (2005). The fishes of Danau Sentarum National Park and the Kapuas Lakes area, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia. Raffles Bull. Zool. Supplement (13), 139 - 173.