Pseudobagarius meridionalis

Pseudobagarius meridionalis

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Akysidae
Genus:	Pseudobagarius
Species:	P. Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates The Actinopterygii (the plural form of Actinopterygius) comprise the class of the ray-finned fishes. Catfish ( order Siluriformes) are a very diverse group of bony Fish. The stream catfishes are family Akysidae of Catfishes Distribution and habitat Akysids are known from across a large area in Southeast Pseudobagarius is a Genus of Catfishes ( order Siluriformes of the family Akysidae. meridionalis

Binomial name

Pseudobagarius meridionalis
(Ng & Siebert, 2004)

Pseudobagarius meridionalis is a species of catfish belonging to the family Akysidae (the stream catfishes). Catfish ( order Siluriformes) are a very diverse group of bony Fish. The stream catfishes are family Akysidae of Catfishes Distribution and habitat Akysids are known from across a large area in Southeast It is presently only known from the Barito River basin in southern Borneo. Barito is a river in South Kalimantan, Indonesia which passes through the city of Banjarmasin. A drainage basin is an extent of Land where Water from Rain or Snow melt drains downhill into a body of water such as a River, Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located at the centre of Maritime Southeast Asia.

This is a very small catfish, up to 32 mm standard length, with a body dark brown above with a few scattered pale spots and white below, with a strongly projected upper jaw so that the premaxillary teeth are clearly visible even when the mouth is closed. Fish measurement refers to the measuring of the length of individual fish and of various parts of their anatomy. The jaw is either of the two opposable structures forming or near the entrance to the Mouth. The premaxilla is a pair of small Cranial bones at the very tip of the jaws of many animals usually bearing Teeth, but not always

References

Ferraris, Carl J. , Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa 1418: 1–628. Zootaxa is an international Journal for animal taxonomists. It is published in English by Magnolia Press in Auckland, New Zealand
A new species of the catfish genus Akysis (Siluriformes: Akysidae) from southern Borneo H.H. NG & D.J. SIEBERT

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