Genus of fishes
Ompok is agenus offish in thefamilySiluridae found inlakes and largerivers throughoutSouth andSoutheast Asia.[1]
The genus is recognized to beparaphyletic. Thespecies ofOmpok have been grouped into species groups, such as theOmpok bimaculatus group (i.e.O. bimaculatus,O. malabaricus andO. miostoma), theO. eugeneiatus group (i.e.O. eugeneiatus andO. pinnatus), theO. hypophthalmus group (i.e.O. hypophthalmus,O. rhabdinurus andO. urbaini) and theO. leiacanthus group (O. fumidus,O. jaynei andO. leiacanthus).[2][3][4] On the other hand, themonophyly of these species groups is not strong enough to reassign species to other genera.[5]
TheO. eugeneiatus group is likely to be more closely related toKryptopterus than the otherOmpok species.[2] According to FerrarisO. eugeneiatus has been reclassified intoKryptopterus, howeverO. pinnatus has not.[6]
There are currently 28 recognized species in this genus:
- Ompok argestesSudasinghe &Meegaskumbura, 2016[7] (Wetzone butter catfish)
- Ompok bimaculatus(Bloch, 1794) (Butter catfish)
- Ompok binotatusH. H. Ng, 2002
- Ompok borneensis(Steindachner, 1901)
- Ompok brevirictusH. H. Ng &Hadiaty, 2009
- Ompok canio(F. Hamilton, 1822)
- Ompok ceylonensis(Günther, 1864)[7] (Dryzone butter catfish)
- Ompok eugeneiatus(Vaillant, 1893) (Malay glass catfish)
- Ompok fumidusT. H. T. Tan &P. K. L. Ng, 1996
- Ompok goae(Haig, 1952)
- Ompok hypophthalmus(Bleeker, 1846)
- Ompok javanensis(Hardenberg, 1938)
- Ompok jayneiFowler, 1905
- Ompok karunkoduH. H. Ng, 2013[8]
- Ompok leiacanthus(Bleeker, 1853)
- Ompok malabaricus(Valenciennes, 1840) (Goan catfish)
- Ompok miostomaVaillant, 1902
- Ompok pabda(F. Hamilton, 1822) (Pabdah catfish)
- Ompok pabo(F. Hamilton, 1822) (Pabo catfish)
- Ompok pinnatusH. H. Ng, 2003 (Long-fin glass catfish)
- Ompok platyrhynchusH. H. Ng &H. H. Tan, 2004
- Ompok pluriradiatusH. H. Ng, 2002
- Ompok rhadinurusH. H. Ng, 2003
- Ompok sabanusInger &P. K. Chin, 1959
- Ompok siluroidesLacépède, 1803
- Ompok supernusH. H. Ng, 2008
- Ompok urbaini(P. W. Fang &Chaux, 1949)
- Ompok weberi(Hardenberg, 1936)
- ^Froese, Rainer;Pauly, Daniel (eds.)."Species in genusOmpok".FishBase. June 2016 version.
- ^abBornbusch, A.H. (1995): Phylogenetic relationships within the Eurasian catfish family Siluridae (Pisces: Siluriformes), with comments on generic validities and biogeography.Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 115 (1): 1–46.
- ^Ng, H.H. (2003): A review of theOmpok hypophthalmus group of silurid catfishes with the description of a new species from South-East Asia.Journal of Fish Biology, 62 (6): 1296–1311.
- ^Ng, H.H. (2003):Ompok pinnatus, a new species of silurid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Siluridae) from mainland Southeast Asia.Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 116 (1): 47-51.
- ^Ng, H.H. & Tan, H.H. (2004):Ompok platyrhynchus, a new silurid catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Borneo.Zootaxa, 580: 1–11.
- ^Ferraris, C.J.Jr. (2007):Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types.Zootaxa, 1418: 1–628.
- ^abSudasinghe, H. & Meegaskumbura, M. (2016):Ompok argestes, a new species of silurid catfish endemic to Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Siluridae).Zootaxa, 4158 (2): 261–271.
- ^Ng, H.H. (2013):Ompok karunkodu, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from southern India.Zootaxa, 3694 (2): 161–166.
