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Oreoglanis
| Oreoglanis | |
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| Oreoglanis hponkanensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Sisoridae |
| Tribe: | Glyptosternina |
| Genus: | Oreoglanis H. M. Smith, 1933 |
| Type species | |
| Oreoglanis siamensis H. M. Smith, 1933
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Oreoglanis is a genus of fish in the family Sisoridae native to Asia. These fish live in fast-flowing streams in China, mainland Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.[1] They are mainly distributed in the Mekong, upper Salween and Irrawaddy River drainages.[2] They range from the Brahmaputra basin to the Lam River drainage in central Vietnam.[3] They are easily distinguished from other catfishes by their strongly depressed head and body and greatly enlarged paired fins that have been modified to form an adhesive apparatus.[1] The flattened shape of these fish and the large pectoral and pelvic fins provide essential adhesion in the fast-flowing waters they live in.
- ^ a b Ng, H.H. (2004). "Oreoglanis macronemus, a new species of glyptosternine catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Sisoridae) from northern Laos" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 52 (1): 209–213.
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