Aldemaro Romero

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Family: Siluridae

 

About 100 species of freshwater in Europe and Asia. Most are scaleless. Silurids have one or two pairs of barbels (Nelson 1994). The presence of barbels and nocturnal habits could be considered preadaptations. One, maybe two troglomorphic species from southeast Asia.   
  1. Pterocryptis buccata Ng & Kottelat, 1998
  2. Pterocryptis cucphuongensis (Mai, 1978)
 

Trajano et al. (2002) found numerous individuals of the genus Pterocypris in a cave in Thailand.