''Pseudobagrus brevianalis'' is a species of

bagrid catfish The Bagridae are a family of catfish that are native to Africa ('' Bagrus'') and Asia (all other genera) from Japan to Borneo. It includes about 245 species. These fish are commonly known as naked catfishes or bagrid catfishes. Many large bagrid ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

. First collected from

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(the type locality), it is found in central and northern Taiwan, west of the

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. Based on the lack of morphological and genetic differences, it has been proposed that '' Pseudobagrus taiwanensis'' is a junior synonym of ''Pseudobagrus brevianalis'', but this has not been followed by online databases. ''Pseudobagrus brevianalis'' grows to . It has not been evaluated by

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but is classified as " vulnerable" in the 2012 Redlist of Fresh Water Fishes of Taiwan.

References

brevianalis Freshwater fish of Taiwan Endemic fauna of Taiwan Fish described in 1908 Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan {{bagridae-stub