Psilorhynchus McClelland

Kevin W. Conway & Maurice Kottelat, 2007, A new species of Psilorhynchus (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from the Ataran River Basin, Myanmar, with comments on the generic name Psilorhynchoides., Zootaxa 1663, pp. 47-57 : 47

[[ Genus Psilorhynchus McClelland ]]

Members of the genus Psilorhynchus McClelland are small cypriniform fishes with arched backs and flattened ventral surfaces, which are common inhabitants of the streams of the Ganges-Brahmaputra drainage of Bangladesh, India, Eastern Nepal and adjacent China and the Irrawaddy drainage in northern Myanmar and southwestern Yunnan (Rainboth, 1983; Vishwanath & Manojkumar, 1995). Seven species of Psilorhynchus are recognized: P. sucatio (Hamilton, 1822) , P. balitora (Hamilton, 1822) , P. homaloptera Hora and Mukerji, 1935 , P. pseudecheneis Menon and Datta, 1964 , P. gracilis Rainboth, 1983 , P. microphthalmus Vishwanath and Manojkumar, 1995 and P. arunachalensis (Nebeshwar, Bagra & Das, 2007) . Herein, we describe a new species of Psilorhynchus from the headwaters of the Ataran River basin, Myanmar.