Tor (fish)

Tor is a genus of cyprinid fish commonly known as mahseers.

Tor
Tor tambroides
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Genus:	Tor J. E. Gray, 1833
Type species
Tor hamiltonii Gray, 1834

Golden mahseer (Tor putitora) Babai River, Nepal

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:

• Tor ater T. R. Roberts, 1999
• Tor dongnaiensis H. Đ. Hoàng, H. M. Phạm, J.-D. Durand, N. T. Trần & P. D. Phan, 2015 (Dongnai mahseer) ^[1]
• Tor douronensis (Valenciennes, 1842) (semah)
• Tor hemispinus Y. R. Chen & X. L. Chu, 1985
• Tor khudree (Sykes, 1839) (black mahseer)
• Tor kulkarnii Menon, 1992 (dwarf mahseer)
• Tor laterivittatus W. Zhou & G. H. Cui, 1996
• Tor malabaricus Jerdon, 1849 (Malabar mahseer)
• Tor mosal (F. Hamilton, 1822) ^[1]
• Tor mekongensis H. Đ. Hoàng, H. M. Phạm, J.-D. Durand, N. T. Trần & P. D. Phan, 2015 (Mekong mahseer) ^[1]
• Tor polylepis W. Zhou & G. H. Cui, 1996
• Tor putitora (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Himalayan mahseer)
• Tor cf. putitora largest known species of cavefish^[2] (now Neolissochilus pnar)
• Tor remadevii Kurup & Radhakrishnan, 2007 ^[3] (orange-finned mahseer)
• Tor sinensis H. W. Wu, 1977 (Chinese mahseer)
• Tor tambra (Valenciennes, 1842)
• Tor tambroides (Bleeker, 1854) (Malayan mahseer, empurau)
• Tor tor (F. Hamilton, 1822) (red-finned mahseer)
• Tor yingjiangensis Z. M. Chen & J. X. Yang, 2004

References

1. Hoàng Huy Đức, Phạm Hùng Mạnh, Durand, J.-D., Trần Ngân Trọng & Phan Phúc Đình (2015): Mahseers genera Tor and Neolissochilus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from southern Vietnam. Zootaxa, 4006 (3): 551-568.
2. Dan Harries, Thomas Arbenz, Neelesh Dahanukar, Rajeev Raghavan, Mark Tringham, Duwaki Rangad and Graham Proudlove. 2019. The World’s Largest Known Subterranean Fish: A Discovery in Meghalaya (NE India) of A Cave-adapted Fish related to the Golden Mahseer, Tor putitora (Hamilton 1822). Cave & Karst Science. 46(3); 121–126.
3. Kurup, B.M. & Radhakrishnan, K.V. (2011): Tor remadevii, a new species of Tor (Gray) from Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Pambar River, Kerala, Southern India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 107 (3): 227-230.