The Species Black List

Heteropneustes longipectoralis

Thirumurthi airsac catfish

The Thirumurthi airsac catfish (Heteropneustes longipectoralis) is known only from a single specimen collected in the 1990s in an irrigation reservoir of the Thirumurthi Dam, within the Anaimalai Hills of southwestern India (Tamil Nadu).

Status

Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List

Restriction tier

5, type locality or a single collection

Class

Actinopterygii

Realm

Indo-Malaysian

Locality

Anaimalai Hills

As IUCN records it

Heteropneustes longipectoralis Rema Devi & Raghunathan, 1999