Description:
The genus Glyptothorax is distinguished from
all other sisorid genera by having an adhesive apparatus
on the thorax with with grooves parallel or oblique
to the longitudinal axis of the body (vs. thoracic
adhesive grooves transverse to the longitudinal axis
of the body in Pseudecheneis, and thoracic
adhesive apparatus absent in all other genera).
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