Pterocryptis cochinchinensis
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| Pterocryptis cochinchinensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Siluridae |
| Genus: | Pterocryptis |
| Species: | P. cochinchinensis |
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| Pterocryptis cochinchinensis (Valenciennes, 1840) | |
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Pterocryptis cochinchinensis is a species of catfish found in the Nam Xam basin in Laos, Vietnam, south-eastern China, and Thailand.[2]
This species reaches a length of 40.1 cm (15.8 in).[3]
A near telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of Pterocryptis cochinchinensis was published in 2026. The genome size is approximately 931.7 Mb, with the assembly anchored to 28 chromosomes. The assembly has a BUSCO completeness of 96.7%, and 28,079 protein-coding genes were functionally annotated.[4]
