Platytropius siamensis Sauvage, 1883
Siamese flat-barbelled catfish
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Nemasiluroides furcatus Fowler, 1937; Pseudeutropius siamensis Sauvage, 1883
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: between 1975 and 1977
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Thailand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Sauvage, H. E. (1883). Sur une collection de poissons recueillis dans Mè-Nam (Siam) par M. Harmand. ulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) 7: 150-155.
Other references:
Harrison, I.J. and Stiassny, M.L.J. 1999. The Quiet Crisis. A preliminary listing of the freshwater fishes of the world that are Extinct or “Missing in Action". In: R.D.E. MacPhee (ed.) Extinctions in Near Time, pp. 271-331. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
Hora, S.L. 1937. Geographical distribution of Indian freshwater fishes and its bearing on the probable land connections between India and the adjacent countries. Current Science 5(7): 351-356.
Ng, H. H. (2011a). Platytropius siamensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 18 June 2011.
Ng, H.H. 2011b. Platytropius siamensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T180996A7657156. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T180996A7657156.en. Downloaded on 26 June 2021.
Smith, H.M. 1945. The fresh-water fishes of Siam, or Thailand. United States Government Printing Office, Washington D.C.
Vardakas, Leonidas, Perdikaris, Costas, Freyhof, Jörg, Zimmerman, Brian, Ford, Matthew, Vlachopoulos, Konstantinos, Koutsikos, Nicholas, Karaouzas, Ioannis, Chamoglou, Maria and Kalogianni, Eleni. (2025). Global Patterns and Drivers of Freshwater Fish Extinctions: Can We Learn From Our Losses? Global Change Biology 31(5): e70244. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70244 [Table S1]