Glyptothorax lanceatus-Holotype-showing living coloration, photo by Dr. Chen, Xiao-Yong from KIZ

Glyptothorax is a most species-diverse but poorly knowing catfish genus in Sisoridae. There are about 80 valid species widely distributed throughout the entire southern arc of the Asian continent, from Asia Minor (in the Tigris and Euphrates River drainages) eastward to East Asia (in the Yangtze River drainage) and southward to Southeast Asia. China is one of its major distribution areas and containing about 20 species. During the Gaoligong Shan Biological Survey (from 1998 to 2007) by united Chinese and USA scientists, an elaborate fish investigation has been taken in Nujiang drainage. A new species obviously distinguished from congeners in the characters of elongate, ovoid tubercles on dorsal surface of head and long lance-like thoracic adhesive apparatus, which was named as Glyptothorax lanceatus Ng, Jiang et Chen, 2012. In phylogenetic analysis, it is a sister group of Irrawaddy drainage endemic species Glyptothorax longjiangensis. This new species has been published in Zootaxa 3250: 54-62.