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Amblycipitidae

Index Amblycipitidae

The Amblycipitidae are a family of catfishes, commonly known as torrent catfishes. [1]

33 relations: Amblyceps, Asia, Barbel (anatomy), Basal (phylogenetics), Catfish, China, Clade, Cladistics, Copeia, Dorsal fin, Edward Blyth, Fish fin, Fish measurement, Fishes of the World, Francis Day, Franz Martin Hilgendorf, Genus, India, Japan, John Wiley & Sons, Korea, Lateral line, Liobagrus, Malay Peninsula, Malaysia, Monophyly, Nahangbagrus songamensis, Pakistan, Pearl River (China), Sisoroidea, Taiwan, Xiurenbagrus, Yangtze.

Amblyceps

Amblyceps is a genus of fish in the family Amblycipitidae.

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Barbel (anatomy)

In fish anatomy and turtle anatomy, a barbel is a slender, whiskerlike sensory organ near the mouth.

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Basal (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.

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Catfish

Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

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Cladistics

Cladistics (from Greek κλάδος, cládos, i.e., "branch") is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on the most recent common ancestor.

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Copeia

Copeia is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in ichthyology and herpetology that was named after Edward Drinker Cope, a prominent American researcher in these fields.

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Dorsal fin

A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates such as fishes, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), and the (extinct) ichthyosaur.

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Edward Blyth

Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India in Calcutta.

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Fish fin

Fins are usually the most distinctive anatomical features of a fish.

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Fish measurement

Fish measurement is the measuring of the length of individual fish and of various parts of their anatomy.

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Fishes of the World

Fishes of the World by Joseph S. Nelson is a standard reference for fish systematics.

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Francis Day

Francis Day CIE (2 March 1829 – 10 July 1889) was an army surgeon and naturalist in the Madras Presidency who later became the Inspector-General of Fisheries in India and Burma.

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Franz Martin Hilgendorf

Franz Martin Hilgendorf (5 December 1839 – 5 July 1904) was a German zoologist and paleontologist.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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Lateral line

The lateral line is a system of sense organs found in aquatic vertebrates, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water.

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Liobagrus

Liobagrus is a genus of catfishes of the family Amblycipitidae.

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Malay Peninsula

The Malay Peninsula (Tanah Melayu, تانه ملايو; คาบสมุทรมลายู,, မလေး ကျွန်းဆွယ်, 马来半岛 / 馬來半島) is a peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.

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Monophyly

In cladistics, a monophyletic group, or clade, is a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.

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Nahangbagrus songamensis

Nahangbagrus songamensis is a species of torrent catfish endemic to Vietnam.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Pearl River (China)

The Pearl River, also known by its Chinese name Zhujiang and formerly often known as the, is an extensive river system in southern China.

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Sisoroidea

Sisoroidea is a superfamily of catfishes (order Siluriformes).

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Xiurenbagrus

Xiurenbagrus is a genus of torrent catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Amblycipitidae.

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Yangtze

The Yangtze, which is 6,380 km (3,964 miles) long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblycipitidae

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