Important Literature about Myanmar Fishes

Annandale, N. 1918. Fish and fisheries of the Inlé Lake. Records of the Indian Museum, 14: 33-64.
Annandale, N. and S.L. Hora. 1923. The systematic position of the Burmese fish Chaudhuria. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 9th series, 11: 327-333.
Arunkumar, L. 2000. Loaches of the genus Lepidocephalicthys (sic) from Manipur, with description of a new species. Journal of Fish Biology, 57: 1093-1104.
Blyth, E. 1860. Report on some fishes received chiefly from the Sitang River and its tributary streams, Tenasserim provinces. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 29: 138-174.
Britz, R. 2003. Danionella mirifica, a new species of miniature fish from Upper Myanmar (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 14: 217-222.
Britz, R. and C.J. Ferraris. 2003. A new species of the Asian catfish genus Pseudolaguvia from Myanmar (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Erethistidae). Zootaxa, 388: 1-8.
Britz, R. and G.D. Johnson. 2002. “Paradox lost": skeletal ontogeny of Indostomus paradoxus and its significance for the phylogenetic relationships of Indostomidae (Teleostei, Gasterosteiformes). American Museum Novitates (3383):1-43.
Britz, R. and M. Kottelat. 2002. Parasphaerichthys lineatus, a new species of labyrinth fish from southern Myanmar (Teleostei: Osphronemidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 13: 243-250.
Britz, R. and M. Kottelat. 2003. Descriptive Osteology of the family Chaudhuriidae (Teleostei, Synbranchiformes, Mastacembeloidei), with a discussion of its relationships. American Museum Novitates (3418): 1-62.
Brown, B. A. and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. 1988. Comparative osteology of the Asian catfish family Chacidae, with the description of a new species from Burma. American Museum Novitates, 2907: 1-16.
Chaudhuri, B.L. 1919. Report on a small collection of fish from Putao (Hkamti Long) on the northern frontier of Burma. Records of the Indian Museum, 16: 271-287.
Fang F. 1998. Danio kyathit, a new species of cyprinid fish from Myitkyina, northern Myanmar. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 8: 273-280.
Fang, F. 2000. Barred Danio species from the Irrawaddy River drainage (Teleostei, Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Research, 47: 13-26.
Fang, F. 2001. Phylogeny and species diversity of the South and southeast Asian cyprinid genus Danio Hamilton (Teleostei, Cyprinidae). Doctoral Dissertation. Department of Zoology, Stockholm University and Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm.
Fang, F. 2003. Phylogenetic analysis of the Asian cyprinid genus Danio (Teleostei, Cyprinidae). Copeia, 2003: 714-728
Ferraris, Jr., C.J. 1999. Rita sacerdotum, a valid species of catfish from Myanmar (Pisces, Bagridae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Zoology Series, 65: 15-21.
Ferraris, Jr., C.J. 2004. A new species of the Asian schilbid catfish genus Clupisoma from Myanmar, with a redescription of Clupisoma prateri Hora (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes: Schilbidae). Zootaxa, 437: 1-10.
Ferraris, C.J., Jr. and K.E. Runge. 1999. Revision of the South Asian bagrid catfish genus Sperata, with the description of a new species from Myanmar. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 51: 397-428.
Hlaing, T. 1971. A classified list of fishes of Burma (classification after Leo S. Berg, 1940). Union of Burma Journal of Life Sciences, 4: 507-528
Khin-Khin-Swe. 1968. A study of some insectivorous fishes of Inya Lake, Rangoon. Union of Burma Journal of Life Sciences, 1: 143-157.
Kottelat, M. 1990. Indochinese nemacheilines. A revision of nemacheiline loaches of Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and southern Viet Nam. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, 262 pp.
Kottelat, M. 2003. Parambassis pulcinella, a new species of glassperch (Teleostei: Ambassidae) from the Ataran River basin (Myanmar), with comments on the family-group names Ambassidae, Chandidae and Bogodidae. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 14: 9-18.
Kottelat, M. 2003. Nomenclatural status of Crossocheilus burmanicus, C. horai and C. multirastellatus (Osteichthyes: Cyprinidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 51: 399-401.
Kottelat, M. 2004. Botia kubotai, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from the Ataran River basin (Myanmar), with comments on botiine nomenclature and diagnosis of a new genus. Zootaxa, 401: 1-18.
Kottelat, M. and K.-E. Witte. 1999. Two new species of Microrasbora from Thailand and Myanmar, with two new generic names for small Southeast Asian cyprinid fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Journal of South Asian Natural History, 4: 49-56.
Kullander, S.O. and; R. Britz. 2002. Revision of the family Badidae (Teleostei: Perciformes). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 13: 295-372.
Kullander, S.O., R. Britz and F. Fang. 2000. Pillaia kachinica, a new chaudhuriid fish from Myanmar, with observations on the genus Garo (Teleostei: Chaudhuriidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 11: 327-334.
Kullander, S.O. and F. Fang. 2004. Seven new species of Garra (Cyprinidae: Cyprininae) from the Rakhine Yoma, southern Myanmar. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 15: 257-278.
Kullander, S.O. and F. Fang. 2005. Two new species of Puntius from northern Myanmar (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Copeia, 2005: 290-302.
Motomura, H. 2004. Threadfins of the world (Family Polynemidae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of polynemid species known to date. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes, 3: 117 pp.
Musikasinthorn, P. 1998. First record of Parambassis lala (Pisces: Ambassidae) from Inle Lake, the Salween River Basin, Myanmar. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society, 46: 203-205.
Ng, H.H. 1999. The Akysis of Myanmar: A review (Teleostei: Akysidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 47: 541-548.
Ng, H.H. 2004. Batasio elongatus, a new species of bagrid catfish from southwest Myanmar (Siluriformes, Bagridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 15: 67-70.
Ng, H.H. and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. 2000. A review of the genus Hemibagrus in southern Asia, with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 52: 125-142.
Ng, H.H. and M. Kottelat. 2000. A review of the genus Amblyceps (Osteichthyes: Amblycipitidae) in Indochina, with descriptions of five new species. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 11: 335-348.
Ng, H.H. and M. Kottelat. 2001. A review of the genus Batasio (Teleostei: Bagridae) in Indochina, with the description of B. tigrinus sp.n. from Thailand. Revue suisse de Zoologie, 108: 495-511.
Ng, H.H. and M. Kottelat. 2004. Akysis vespa, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Akysidae) from the Ataran River drainage (Myanmar). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 15: 193-200.
Ng, H.H. and M. Kottelat. 2005. Caelatoglanis zonatus, a new genus and species of the Erethistidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from Myanmar, with comments on the nomenclature of Laguvia and Hara species. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 16: 13-22.
Ng, H.H., P.K.L. Ng and R. Britz. 1999. Channa harcourtbutleri (Annandale, 1918): a valid species of snakehead (Perciformes: Channidae) from Myanmar. Journal of South Asian Natural History, 4: 57-63.
Prashad, B. and D.D. Mukerji. 1929. The fish of the Indawgyi Lake and the streams of the Myitkyina District (Upper Burma). Records of the Indian Museum, 31:161-223.
Rendahl, H. and G Vestergren. 1941. Eine neue Art der Gattung Glyptosternon s. str. aus dem nordöstlichen Birma. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 133:213-214.
Rendahl, H. 1943. Über das Vorkommen des Misgurnus anguillicaudatus anguillicaudatus (Cantor) in Birma. Arkiv för Zoologi, 35A (4):1-9.
Rendahl, H. 1944. Einige Bemerkungen über die Gattung Nemachilichthys Day. Arkiv för Zoologi, 35A (14):1-11.
Rendahl, H. 1945. Die vorderindischen Arten der Gattung Lepidocephalus. Arkiv för Zoologi, 36A (19):1-15.
Rendahl, H. 1948. Die Süsswasserfische Birmas. I. Die Familie Cobitidae. Arkiv för Zoologi, 40A(7):1-116.
Roberts, T.R. 2001. Ayarnangra estuarius, a new genus and species of sisorid catfish from the Ayeyarwaddy basin, Myanmar. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society, 49: 81-87.
Rüber, L., R. Britz, S.O. Kullander and R. Zardoya. 2004. Evolutionary and biogeographic patterns of the Badidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 32: 1010-1022.
Steinitz, H. 1961. Notes on some glyptosternoid fishes (Sisoridae, Siluroidea). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 59: 105-115.
Thant, M. K. 1966. Silurus burmanensis a new species of fish from the Inlé Lake, Southern Shan State, Burma. Journal of the Burma Research Society 49: 219-221.
Vinciguerra, D. 1890. Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. XXIV. Pesci. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturali, Genova Serie 2a, 9: 129-362.

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