Mystus is a genus of fish in the family Bagridae native to Asia. Phylogenetic relationships within this genus are poorly understood, though it has been suggested that there are two major lineages.
Species
There are currently 62 recognized species in this genus:
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Mystus abbreviatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
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Mystus alasensis H. H. Ng & Hadiaty, 2005
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Mystus albolineatus T. R. Roberts, 1994
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Mystus ankutta Pethiyagoda, N. K. A. Silva & Kalana Maduwage, 2008
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Mystus armatus (Francis Day, 1865)
[Plamoottil, M. & Abraham, N.P. (2014): Rediscovery and redescription of Mystus armatus Day. International Journal of Research in Fisheries and Aquaculture, 4 (1): 18-23.]
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Mystus atrifasciatus Fowler, 1937
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Mystus bimaculatus (Walter Volz, 1904)
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Mystus bleekeri (Francis Day, 1877)
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Mystus bocourti (Pieter Bleeker, 1864)
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Mystus canarensis S. Grant, 1999
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Mystus carcio (F. Hamilton, 1822)
[Darshan, A., Anganthoibi, N. & Vishwanath, Waikhom (2010): Redescription of the striped catfish Mystus carcio (Hamilton) (Siluriformes: Bagridae). Zootaxa, 2475: 48–54.]
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Mystus castaneus H. H. Ng, 2002
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Mystus catapogon Plamoottil, 2016
[Plamoottil, M. (2016): Mystus catapogon, a new catfish (Siluriformes: Bagridae) species from Kerala, India. Journal of Research in Biology, 6 (2): 1967-1976.]
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Mystus cavasius (F. Hamilton, 1822)
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Mystus cineraceus H. H. Ng & Maurice Kottelat, 2009
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Mystus dibrugarensis (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1913)
[Bailung, B. & Biswas, S.P. (2015): New description of a Bagrid Catfish Mystus dibrugarensis (Chaudhuri, 1913) from Dihing river of Upper Assam. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies, 2 (3): 204-206.]
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Mystus falcarius Chakrabarty & H. H. Ng, 2005
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Mystus gulio (F. Hamilton, 1822)
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Mystus heoki Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013
[Plamoottil, M. & Abraham, N.P. (2013): Mystus indicus and M. heoki, two new catfishes from Kerala, India. Biosystematica, 7 (1): 43-58.]
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Mystus horai Jayaram, 1954
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Mystus impluviatus H. H. Ng, 2003
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Mystus indicus Plamoottil & Abraham, 2013
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Mystus irulu Vijayakrishnan and Praveenraj. 2022
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Mystus keletius (Valenciennes, 1840)
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Mystus keralai Plamoottil, 2014 (Kerala Mystus)
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Mystus leucophasis (Edward Blyth, 1860)
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Mystus malabaricus (Jerdon, 1849)
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Mystus menoni Plamoottil, 2013 (Idukki Mystus)
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Mystus montanus (Jerdon, 1849)
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Mystus multiradiatus T. R. Roberts, 1992
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Mystus mysticetus T. R. Roberts, 1992
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Mystus nanus Sudasinghe, Pethiyagoda, Kalana Maduwage & Meegaskumbura, 2016
[Sudasinghe, H., Pethiyagoda, R., Maduwage, K. & Meegaskumbura, M. (2016): Mystus nanus, a new striped catfish from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Bagridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (2): 163-172.]
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Mystus ngasep Darshan, Vishwanath, Mahanta & Ashoktaru Barat, 2011
[Darshan, A., Vishwanath, W., Mahanta, P.C. & Barat, A. (2011): Mystus ngasep, a new catfish species (Teleostei: Bagridae) from the headwaters of Chindwin drainage in Manipur, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 3 (11): 2177–2183.]
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Mystus nigriceps (Valenciennes, 1840)
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Mystus oculatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
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Mystus pelusius (Solander, 1794)
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Mystus prabini
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Mystus pulcher (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1911)
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Mystus punctifer H. H. Ng, Wirjoatmodjo & Hadiaty, 2001
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Mystus rhegma Fowler, 1935
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Mystus rufescens (Vinciguerra, 1890)
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Mystus seengtee (Sykes, 1839)
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Mystus singaringan (Pieter Bleeker, 1846)
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Mystus tengara (F. Hamilton, 1822)
[Darshan, A., Mahanta, P.C., Barat, A. & Kumar, P. (2013): Redescription of the Striped Catfish Mystus tengara (Hamilton, 1822) (Siluriformes: Bagridae), India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 5 (1): 3536–3541.]
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Mystus velifer H. H. Ng, 2012
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Mystus vittatus (Bloch, 1794)
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Mystus wolffii (Pieter Bleeker, 1851)
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Mystus zeylanicus H. H. Ng & Pethiyagoda, 2013
[Ng, H.H. & Pethiyagoda, R. (2013): Mystus zeylanicus, a new species of bagrid catfish from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Bagridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 24 (2): 161-170.]
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Mystus celator Ng & Kottelat, 2023
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Mystus armiger Ng, 2004
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Mystus chinensis (Steindachner, 1883)
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Mystus bagre Meuschen, 1778
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Mystus rubicauda Bardach, 1959
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Mystus pahangensis Herre, 1940
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Mystus ascita Walbaum, 1792
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Mystus cous Meuschen, 1778
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Mystus anguillaris Meuschen, 1778
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Mystus fasciatus Meuschen, 1778
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Mystus chitol Hamilton, 1841
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Mystus karipat Gray, 1831
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Mystus rubripinnis Vanarajan & Arunachalam, 2018
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Mystus cyrusi Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh, Zarei, Eagderi & Mousavi-Sabet, 2022