Distribution of Tachysurus truncatus (+ others)
Posted: 22 Nov 2024, 21:25
is listed in the Cat-E-Log as being distributed in "South and southeast Asia: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand."
The species was described from a locality in China, so this distribution is at least incomplete, but I am pretty certain they have not been recorded in any of these countries.
It looks like this information might stem from gbif, which has a list of specimens originally labelled Tachysurus truncatus that were later determined to be .
(Many Asian ariids were at one point placed in genus Tachysurus, family Tachysuridae, but the bagrids kept the name.)
Catalog of Fishes just lists the distribution of (true) Tachysurus truncatus as "East Asia: Yangtze River basin, China."
Based on the map, I believe there may be similar errors in other species in the genus. The genus Tachysurus is restricted to East Asia + Vietnam.
(For some reason has a CLOG map point in Africa?)
The species was described from a locality in China, so this distribution is at least incomplete, but I am pretty certain they have not been recorded in any of these countries.
It looks like this information might stem from gbif, which has a list of specimens originally labelled Tachysurus truncatus that were later determined to be .
(Many Asian ariids were at one point placed in genus Tachysurus, family Tachysuridae, but the bagrids kept the name.)
Catalog of Fishes just lists the distribution of (true) Tachysurus truncatus as "East Asia: Yangtze River basin, China."
Based on the map, I believe there may be similar errors in other species in the genus. The genus Tachysurus is restricted to East Asia + Vietnam.
(For some reason has a CLOG map point in Africa?)