Fishes of the genus
Batasio Blyth, 1860, are small size fresh water bagrid catfishes inhibiting inthe hill streams of the upper reaches of large rivers throughout the south and
southeast Asia (Ng, 2006).
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| Batasio Spilurus Ng |
The genus is diagnosed
from its confamilials in having numerous large sensory pores on the head, a
narrow mental region, anterior part of vomer with a pair of
posteriorly-directed processes, entopterygoid bar-like and
transversely-elongated, and the metapterygoid free from the hyomandibular but
closely contact with the quadrate (Mo, 1991). Additionally, the genus is
readily distinguished from other bagrid catfishes (except Chandramara Jayaram)
by its short minute maxillary barbel which is restricted within extend of the
head, which rarely crossed the posterior rim of the eye.
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