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  • noun zoology Any member of the Sisoridae.

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  • JunXing outline in their paper "Two new species of the sisorid Genus Oreoglanis Smith from Yunnan, China (Teleostei: Sisoridae)"

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • The three most diverse of the 30 different families represented here are minnows and carps (Cyprinidae; 93 species and 11 endemics), river loaches (Balitoridae; 47 species and 14 endemics), and sisorid catfishes (Sisoridae; 34 species and four endemics).

    Biological diversity in the Himalayas 2008

  • Two new species of miniature sisorid catfishes have been described from northeastern India by Singapore ichthyologist Heok Hee Ng. The two new species both belong to the genus Pseudolaguvia, and have been named Pseudolaguvia ferruginea and P. flavida in a recent issue of the journal Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters.

    Practical Fishkeeping 2010

  • For more information, see the paper: Ng, HH (2009) Two new species of Pseudolaguvia, sisorid catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from northeastern India.

    Practical Fishkeeping 2010

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