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Teleostei (teleosts) > Siluriformes (Catfishes) > Bagridae (Bagrid catfishes)
Etymology: Mystus: Greek, mystax = whiskered, used by Belon in 1553 to describe all fishes with whiskers (Ref. 45335); nanus: The specific epithet nanus is a masculine noun meaning dwarf in Latin, in reference to its diminutive size when compared with Mystus vittatus.

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Freshwater; demersal. Tropical

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Asia: Sri Lanka.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 10.6 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 116163)

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Dorsal spines (total): 1; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7; Anal soft rays: 11; Vertebrae: 35. Mystus nanus can be diagnosed from all congeners from India and Sri Lanka except M. bleekeri, M. carcio, M. tengara, and M. vittatus by having two distinct cream stripes along the entire length of the flank (vs. stripes absent on body). It is distinguished from the four named striped species by the combination of the following characters: eye diameter (19-22 % HL); maxillary barbel extending up to or slightly beyond origin of anal fin; distal margin of dorsal fin rounded; adipose-fin base length 25.3-31.4 % SL; serrae along posterior margin of pectoral fin 9-12; sclera blackish grey in preserved specimens; and posterior cranial fontanelle ending about one eye-diameter anterior to the base of the supraoccipital process (Ref. 116163).

Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274)

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Sudasinghe, H., R. Pethiyagoda, K. Maduwage and M. Meegaskumbura, 2016. Mystus nanus, a new striped catfish from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Bagridae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 27(2):163-172. (Ref. 116163)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 07 August 2019

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00832 (0.00359 - 0.01926), b=2.95 (2.78 - 3.12), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.3 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Mystus nanus Sudasinghe, Pethiyagoda, Maduwage & Meegaskumbura, 2016