Pseudolaguvia

Heok Hee Ng, 2006, Pseudolaguvia ferula, a new species of sisoroid catfish (Teleostei: Erethistidae) from India., Zootaxa 1229, pp. 59-68 : 59

[[ Pseudolaguvia ]]

Members of the genus Pseudolaguvia are small erethistid catfishes inhabiting hill streams and large rivers in the area bordered by the Ganges River drainage (northern India) to the west and the Sittang River drainage (east-central Myanmar) to the east. The diversity of the group has been doubled in recent years, with eight species of Pseudolaguvia considered valid (Ng, 2005): P. ribeiroi (Hora, 1921) , P. shawi (Hora, 1921) , P. tuberculata (Prashad & Mukerji, 1929) , P. kapuri (Tilak & Husain, 1975) , P. tenebricosa Britz & Ferraris, 2003 , P. foveolata Ng, 2005 , P. inornata Ng, 2005 and P. muricata Ng, 2005 .

A recent collection of fishes in tributaries of the Brahmaputra River drainage in West Bengal, India, included an undescribed Pseudolaguvia species with a terete body that is narrower than congeners. The description of this material as Pseudolaguvia ferula new species forms the basis of this study.