Microglanis

Microglanis is a genus of fish in the family Pseudopimelodidae native to South America. This genus has the widest distribution within its family, with species ranging from the Guianas to Venezuela; western slope of the Andes in Ecuador and Peru to the Río de La Plata basin in Argentina. They occur eastward to the Orinoco and Amazon basins. It is also present in the eastern coastal rivers of Brazil.^[1]

Microglanis
Microglanis sp.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Pseudopimelodidae
Genus:	Microglanis C. H. Eigenmann, 1912
Type species
Microglanis poecilus Eigenmann, 1912

Species

There are currently 29 recognized species in this genus:

• Microglanis ater C. G. E. Ahl, 1936
• Microglanis carlae Vera-Alcaraz, da Graça & Shibatta, 2008
• Microglanis cibelae L. R. Malabarba & Mahler, 1998
• Microglanis cottoides (Boulenger, 1891)
• Microglanis eurystoma L. R. Malabarba & Mahler, 1998
• Microglanis garavelloi Shibatta & Benine, 2005
• Microglanis iheringi A. L. Gomes, 1946
• Microglanis leniceae Shibatta, 2016 ^[2]
• Microglanis leptostriatus H. Mori & Shibatta, 2006
• Microglanis lundbergi Jarduli & Shibatta, 2013 ^[3]
• Microglanis maculatus Shibatta, 2014 ^[4]
• Microglanis malabarbai Bertaco & A. R. Cardoso, 2005
• Microglanis minutus Ottoni, Mattos & Barbosa, 2010 ^[5]
• Microglanis nigripinnis Bizerril & Peres-Neto, 1992
• Microglanis nigrolineatus Terán, Jarduli, F. Alonso, Mirande & Shibatta, 2016 ^[6]
• Microglanis oliveirai W. B. G. Ruiz & Shibatta, 2011 ^[7]
• Microglanis parahybae (Steindachner, 1880)
• Microglanis pataxo Sarmento-Soares, Martins-Pinheiro, Aranda & Chamon, 2006
• Microglanis pellopterygius Mees, 1978
• Microglanis pleriqueater Mattos, Ottoni & Barbosa, 2013 ^[8]
• Microglanis poecilus C. H. Eigenmann, 1912
• Microglanis reikoae W. B. G. Ruiz, 2016 ^[9]
• Microglanis robustus W. B. G. Ruiz & Shibatta, 2010 ^[10]
• Microglanis secundus Mees, 1974
• Microglanis sparsus W. B. G. Ruiz, 2016 ^[9]
• Microglanis variegatus C. H. Eigenmann & Henn, 1914
• Microglanis xerente W. B. G. Ruiz, 2016 ^[9]
• Microglanis xylographicus W. B. G. Ruiz & Shibatta, 2011 ^[7]
• Microglanis zonatus C. H. Eigenmann & W. R. Allen, 1942

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Microglanis". FishBase. October 2016 version.
2. Shibatta, O.A. (2016): A new species of bumblebee catfish of the genus Microglanis (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the upper rio Paraguay basin, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, 14 (3): e160031.
3. Jarduli, L.R. & Shibatta, O.A. (2013): Description of a new species of Microglanis (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the Amazon basin, Amazonas State, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, 11 (3): 507-512.
4. Shibatta, O.A. (2014): A new species of Microglanis (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the upper rio Tocantins basin, Goiás State, Central Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, 12 (1): 81-87.
5. Ottoni, F.P., Mattos, J.L.O. & Barbosa, M.A. (2010): Description of a new species of Microglanis from the rio Barra Seca basin, southeastern Brazil (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae). Vertebrate Zoology, 60 (3): 187-192.
6. Terán, G.E., Jarduli, L.R., Alonso, F., Mirande, J.M. & Shibatta, O.A. (2016): Microglanis nigrolineatus, a new species from northwestern Argentina (Ostariophysi: Pseudopimelodidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (3): 193-202.
7. Ruiz, W.B.G. & Shibatta, O.A. (2011): Two new species of Microglanis (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the upper-middle rio Araguaia basin, Central Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, 9 (4): 697-707.
8. Mattos, J.L.O., Ottoni, F.P. & Barbosa, M.A. (2013): Microglanis pleriqueater, a new species of catfish from the São João river basin, eastern Brazil (Teleostei: Pseudopimelodidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (2): 147-154.
9. Ruiz, W.B.G. (2016): Three new species of catfishes of the genus Microglanis from Brazil (Teleostei: Pseudopimelodidae), with comments on the characters used within the genus. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (3): 211-232.
10. Ruiz, W.B.G. & Shibatta, O.A. (2010): A new species of Microglanis (Siluriformes, Pseudopimelodidae) from lower Rio Tocantins basin, Pará, Brazil, with description of superficial neuromasts and pores of lateral line system. Zootaxa, 2632: 53-66.