Real catfish
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Catfish ( Silurus glanis ) |
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| Cuvier , 1816 |
The real catfish (Siluridae) are a family of fish that occur in fresh waters in Eastern Europe and all over Asia, with the exception of Siberia and the Arabian Peninsula. Two species, the European catfish ( Silurus glanis ) and the Aristotle catfish ( Silurus aristotelis ), living in Europe.
features
Real catfish have scaly, bare skin. The head is flattened, the mouth wide. There is a pair of barbels on the upper jaw and one or two on the lower jaw. The dorsal fin is small or absent. It is supported by fewer than seven fin rays , if any . A fin spike never occurs. There is no adipose fin . The anal fin is long, supported by 41 to 110 fin rays and is fused with the caudal fin in the genus Silurichthys .
Depending on the species, they are eight to three meters long. The glass catfish (genus Kryptopterus ) are more or less translucent.
Systematics
Indian glass catfish ( Kryptopterus vitreolus )
There are eleven to twelve genera and over 100 species , whereby the assignment of some species to their genera is handled differently by different authors and sometimes more genera are recognized.
- Family Siluridae (common catfish) Cuvier, 1816
- Genus Belodontichthys Bleeker, 1858 (two species)
- Belodontichthys dinema (Bleeker, 1851)
- Belodontichthys truncatus Kottelat & Ng, 1999
- Genus Ceratoglanis Myers, 1938 (two species)
- Ceratoglanis pachynema Ng, 1999
- Ceratoglanis scleronema (Bleeker, 1862)
- Genus Hemisilurus Bleeker, 1858 (three species)
- Hemisilurus heterorhynchus (Bleeker, 1853)
- Hemisilurus mekongensis Bornbusch & Lundberg, 1989
- Hemisilurus moolenburghi Weber & de Beaufort, 1913
- Genus Kryptopterus Bleeker, 1858 (20 species)
- Kryptopterus baramensis Ng, 2002
- Kryptopterus bicirrhis (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Kryptopterus cheveyi Durand, 1940
- Kryptopterus cryptopterus (Bleeker, 1851)
- Kryptopterus dissitus Ng, 2001
- Kryptopterus geminus Ng, 2003
- Kryptopterus hesperius Ng, 2002
- Kryptopterus lais (Bleeker, 1851)
- Kryptopterus limpok (Bleeker, 1852)
- Kryptopterus lumholtzi Rendahl , 1922
- Kryptopterus macrocephalus (Bleeker, 1858)
- Kryptopterus minor Roberts, 1989
- Kryptopterus mononema (Bleeker, 1847)
- Kryptopterus palembangensis (Bleeker, 1852)
- Kryptopterus paraschil both Ng, 2003
- Kryptopterus piperatus Ng, Wirjoatmodjo & Hadiaty, 2004
- Kryptopterus sabanus (Inger & Chin, 1959)
- Kryptopterus schilbeides (Bleeker, 1858)
- Indian glass catfish ( Kryptopterus vitreolus ) Ng & Kottelat, 2013
- Genus Micronema Bleeker, 1858 (three species)
- Micronema hexapterus (Bleeker, 1851)
- Micronema moorei (Smith, 1945)
- Micronema platypogon (Ng, 2004)
- Genus Ompok Lacepède, 1803 (28 species)
- Ompok argestes Sudasinghe & Meegaskumbura, 2016
- Ompok bimaculatus (Bloch, 1794)
- Ompok binotatus Ng, 2002
- Ompok borneensis (Steindachner, 1901)
- Ompok brevirictus Ng & Hadiaty, 2009
- Ompok canio (Hamilton, 1822)
- Ompok ceylonensis (Günther, 1864)
- Ompok eugeneiatus (Vaillant, 1893)
- Ompok fumidus Tan & Ng, 1996
- Ompok goae (Haig, 1952)
- Ompok hypophthalmus (Bleeker, 1846)
- Ompok javanensis (Hardenberg, 1938)
- Ompok jaynei Fowler, 1905
- Ompok karunkodu Ng, 2013
- Ompok leiacanthus (Bleeker, 1853)
- Ompok malabaricus (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Ompok miostoma (Vaillant, 1902)
- Ompok pabda (Hamilton, 1822)
- Ompok pabo (Hamilton, 1822)
- Ompok pinnatus Ng, 2003
- Ompok platyrhynchus Ng & Tan, 2004
- Ompok pluriradiatus Ng, 2002
- Ompok rhadinurus Ng, 2003
- Ompok siluroides Lacepède, 1803
- Ompok sindensis (Day, 1877)
- Ompok supernus Ng, 2008
- Ompok urbaini (Fang & Chaux, 1949)
- Ompok weberi (Hardenberg, 1936)
- Genus Phalacronotus Bleeker, 1857 (4 species)
- Phalacronotus apogon (Bleeker, 1851)
- Phalacronotus bleekeri (Günther, 1864)
- Phalacronotus micronemus (Bleeker, 1846)
- Phalacronotus parvanalis (Inger & Chin, 1959)
- Genus Pinniwallago Gupta, Jayaram & Hajela, 1981 (monotypical)
- Pinniwallago kanpurensis Gupta, Jayaram & Hajela, 1981
- Genus Pterocryptis Peters, 1861 (17 species)
- Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1934)
- Pterocryptis barakensis Vishwanath & Nebeshwar Sharma, 2006
- Pterocryptis berdmorei (Blyth, 1860)
- Pterocryptis bokorensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1937)
- Pterocryptis buccata Ng & Kottelat, 1998
- Pterocryptis burmanensis (Thant, 1966)
- Pterocryptis cochinchinensis (Valenciennes, 1840)
- Pterocryptis crenula Ng & Freyhof, 2001
- Pterocryptis cucphuongensis (May, 1978)
- Pterocryptis furnessi (Fowler, 1905)
- Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861
- Pterocryptis indicus (Datta, Barman & Jayaram, 1987)
- Pterocryptis inusitata Ng, 1999
- Pterocryptis subrisa Ng et al., 2018
- Pterocryptis taytayensis (Herre, 1924)
- Pterocryptis torrentis (Kobayakawa, 1989)
- Pterocryptis verecunda Ng & Freyhof, 2001
- Pterocryptis wynaadensis (Day, 1873)
- Genus Silurichthys Bleeker, 1856 (nine species)
- Silurichthys citatus Ng & Kottelat, 1997
- Silurichthys gibbiceps Ng & Ng, 1998
- Silurichthys hasseltii Bleeker, 1858
- Silurichthys indragiriensis Volz, 1904
- Silurichthys ligneolus Ng & Tan, 2011
- Silurichthys marmoratus Ng & Ng, 1998
- Silurichthys phaiosoma (Bleeker, 1851)
- Silurichthys sanguineus Roberts, 1989
- Silurichthys schneideri Volz, 1904
- Genus Silurus Linnaeus, 1758 (14 species)
- Aristotle Catfish ( Silurus aristotelis ) Garman, 1890
- Amur Catfish ( Silurus asotus ) Linnaeus, 1758
- Silurus biwaensis (Tomoda, 1961)
- Silurus chantrei Sauvage, 1882
- Silurus duanensis Hu, Lan & Zhang, 2004
- European catfish ( Silurus glanis ) Linnaeus, 1758
- Silurus grahami Regan, 1907
- Silurus lanzhouensis Chen, 1977
- Silurus lithophilus (Tomoda, 1961)
- Silurus mento Regan, 1904
- Silurus meridionalis Chen, 1977
- Silurus microdorsalis (Mori, 1936)
- Silurus soldatovi Nikolskii & Soin, 1948
- Silurus triostegus Heckel, 1843
- Wallago Bleeker genus , 1851 (five species)
- Wallago attu (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
- Wallago hexanema (Kner, 1866)
- Wallago leerii Bleeker, 1851
- Wallago maculatus Inger & Chin, 1959
- Wallago micropogon Ng, 2004
- Genus Belodontichthys Bleeker, 1858 (two species)
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
Web links
Commons : Real catfish (Siluridae) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Real catfish on Fishbase.org (English)