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Green variant (Rydak River, West Bengal)
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Red colour variant
Brown colour variant
Yellow variant (Rydak River, West Bengal)
Green variant (Rydak River, West Bengal)
Red variant (Manas River, Assam)
Brown variant (Jorai River, West Bengal)
Habitat: Jorai River, West Bengal
Habitat: Jorai River, West Bengal

All Fishes Data Sheet
Scientific Name	**Pseudolaguvia shawi** (Hora, 1921)
Common Name	Shaw's Bee Catfish
Type Locality	Mahanadi R. below Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.
Synonym(s)	Glyptothorax shawi, Laguvia shawi
Pronunciation	sue doh lah GOO vee ah - shaw eye
Species Information
Size	30mm or 1.2" SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp.
Identification	Members of the genus Pseudolaguvia are small erethistid catfishes inhabiting hill streams and large rivers in the area bordered by the Ganges River drainage (northern India) to the west and the Sittang River drainage (east-central Myanmar) to the east. They can be distinguished from other sisorids by their small size,a combination of a thoracic adhesive apparatus with a median depression and prominent postcoracoid processes. Pseudolaguvia shawi has two broad vertical bands on its body. P.shawi differs from P.riberoi in having smooth dorsal and pectoral fins with weak to no serrations.P.shawi differs from P.kapuri in having a shorter adipose fin base and from P.tuberculata in having the adipose fin not reaching (vs. reaching) the base of the dorsal fin ray.
Sexing	Not known.
General Remarks	The original description has a spelling mistake of the type river. The correct name for the river is Mahananda. Mahanadi is a different Indian river. There are 2 colour forms of Pseudolaguvia shawi available in the trade. One with a green base colour (the first picture in this data sheet) and another with a reddish/orange base colour.
Habitat Information
Distribution	Asia: Darjeeling, Siliguri Terai and Sikkim in India. Reported from Bangladesh. Indian waters, Sikkim State Waters (click on these areas to find other species found there) Indian waters, Bengal Waters, West Bengal Waters, Darjeeling District Waters (click on these areas to find other species found there) Indian waters, Arunachal Pradesh State Waters (click on these areas to find other species found there) Login to view the map.
IUCN Red List Category	Least Concern , range map and more is available on the IUCN species page. Last assessed 2009.
Husbandry Information
Feeding	Known to take only live food like blood worms, frozen brine shrimp etc. Spot feeding will help in case tank mates are voracious feeders. User data.
Furniture	Pseudolaguvia shawi has been collected in streams in Arunachal Pradesh at an altitude of 600m. The stream was found to consist of boulders with a sandy / pebbly bottom.
Compatibility	A peaceful species suitable for a hillstream biotope. Extreme care should be taken while choosing their tankmates as these fish are extremely poor at competing for food.
Suggested Tankmates	Cyprinids like Barilius and Danio and Balitorine loaches like Homaloptera species.
Breeding	Unreported.
Breeding Reports	There is no breeding report.
Further Information
Reference	Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 22 (pt 5, no. 33), pp 740, Pl. 29 (fig. 2).
Registered Keepers	There is no registered keeper.
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Last Update	2025 Jan 02 01:38 (species record created: 2004 Jul 11 00:00)