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Sisoridae (Sisorid catfishes) > Glyptosterninae
Etymology: Oreoglanis: Greek, oreos = mountain+Greek, glanis = Latin, aurum = gold + Greek, glanis = a fish that can eat the bait without touching the hook; a cat fish (Ref. 45335); pangenensis: Named for the typ locality, the Pange Riverthe; an adjective (Ref. 103418).
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical
Asia: currently known only from its type locality at the Pange River, Lower Subansiri District, Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India (Ref. 103418).
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 7.7 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 103418)
Short description
Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal
soft rays
(total): 7;
Anal
soft rays: 5. Diagnosis: distinguished from all its congeners by the presence of 2 (vs. 1) types of projections on the ventroposterior margin of the maxillary barbel: the proximal 3rd with lobulate projections and distal 2/3 with laciniate (vs. only entire margin or only crenulate, laciniate, lobulate, fimbriate, or villiform projections); further diagnosed by the combination of the following characters: lower lip with an entire margin and a distinct median notch, an emarginate caudal fin, a dark brown streak on the outer margin of each caudal-fin lobe, distance between posterior end of pectoral-fin base and pelvic-fin origin 11.5 % SL, caudal peduncle depth 5.3 % SL, dorsal-to-adipose distance 21.1 % SL, interorbital width 25 % HL, anal-fin base 2.9 % SL, upper and lower first principal caudal-fin rays 12.6 and 15.0 % SL, and a rounded maxillary barbel tip (Ref. 103418).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Sinha, B. and L. Tamang, 2015. Oreoglanis pangenensis, a new species of torrent catfish from Arunachal Pradesh, India (Siluriformes: Sisoridae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 25(4):331-338. (Ref. 103418)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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