Siluridae

Catfish ( Silurus glanis )

The Real catfish ( Siluridae ) are a family of fish that occurs in fresh waters in Eastern Europe and in 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

True catfish have a scaleless, naked skin. The head is flattened, the mouth wide. In the upper jaw there is a pair of barbels on the lower jaw from one to two. The dorsal fin is small or absent. You will, if available, supported by less than seven fin rays. A fin spines never happens. An adipose fin is absent. The anal fin is long, is supported 41-110 fin rays and is grown in the genus Silurichthys with the tail fin. True catfish have two pairs of barbels on the lower jaw and a, usually very long at the maxilla.

They are, depending on the type, eight inches to three feet long. The glass catfish ( genus Kryptopterus ) are more or less translucent.

System

There are 13 genera and about 100 species.

  • Family Siluridae ( True catfish ) Cuvier, 1816 Genus Belodontichthys Bleeker, 1858 ( two types ) Belodontichthys dinema ( Bleeker, 1851)
  • Belodontichthys truncatus Kottelat & Ng, 1999
  • Ceratoglanis pachynema Ng, 1999
  • Ceratoglanis scleronema ( Bleeker, 1862)
  • Hemisilurus heterorhynchus ( Bleeker, 1853)
  • Hemisilurus mekongensis Bornbusch & Lundberg, 1989
  • Hemisilurus moolenburghi Weber & de Beaufort, 1913
  • Hito taytayensis Herre, 1924
  • 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 hexapterus ( Bleeker, 1851)
  • Kryptopterus relay ( Bleeker, 1851)
  • Kryptopterus limpok ( Bleeker, 1852)
  • Kryptopterus lumholtzi Rendahl, 1922
  • Kryptopterus macrocephalus ( Bleeker, 1858)
  • Kryptopterus minor Roberts, 1989
  • Kryptopterus mononema ( Bleeker, 1847)
  • Kryptopterus moorei Smith, 1945
  • Kryptopterus palembangensis ( Bleeker, 1852)
  • Kryptopterus paraschilbeides Ng, 2003
  • Kryptopterus piperatus Ng, Wirjoatmodjo & Hadiaty, 2004
  • Kryptopterus platypogon Ng, 2004
  • Kryptopterus schilbeides ( Bleeker, 1858)
  • Indian Glass Catfish ( Kryptopterus vitreolus ) Ng & Kottelat, 2013
  • Micronema hexapterus ( Bleeker, 1851)
  • Micronema moorei (Smith, 1945)
  • Micronema platypogon ( Ng, 2004)
  • Ompok bimaculatus ( Bloch, 1794)
  • Ompok binotatus Ng, 2002
  • Ompok borneensis ( Steindachner, 1901)
  • Ompok Canio (Hamilton, 1822)
  • Ompok eugeneiatus ( Vaillant, 1893)
  • Ompok fumidus Tan & Ng, 1996
  • Ompok GOÄ ( 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 sabanus Inger & Chin, 1959
  • Ompok sindensis ( Day, 1877)
  • Ompok urbaini (Fang & Chaux, 1949)
  • Ompok weberi ( Hardenberg, 1936)
  • Phalacronotus apogon ( Bleeker, 1851)
  • Phalacronotus bleekeri ( Günther, 1864)
  • Phalacronotus micronemus ( Bleeker, 1846)
  • Phalacronotus parvanalis ( Inger & Chin, 1959)
  • Pinniwallago kanpurensis Gupta, Jayaram & Hajela, 1981
  • Pterocryptis Afghana ( Günther, 1864)
  • Pterocryptis anomala ( Herre, 1934)
  • 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 torrentis ( Kobayakawa, 1989)
  • Pterocryptis verecunda Ng & Freyhof, 2001
  • Pterocryptis wynaadensis ( Day, 1873)
  • Silurichthys citatus Ng & Kottelat, 1997
  • Silurichthys gibbiceps Ng & Ng, 1998
  • Silurichthys hasseltii Bleeker, 1858
  • Silurichthys marmoratus Ng & Ng, 1998
  • Silurichthys phaiosoma ( Bleeker, 1851)
  • Silurichthys sanguineus Roberts, 1989
  • Aristotle catfish ( Silurus aristotelis ) Garman, 1890
  • Amur catfish ( Silurus asotus ) Linnaeus, 1758
  • Silurus biwaensis ( Tomoda, 1961)
  • Silurus chantrei Sauvage, 1882
  • 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 morehensis Arunkumar & Tombi Singh, 1997
  • Silurus palavanensis ( Herre, 1924)
  • Silurus soldatovi Nikolskii & Soin, 1948
  • Silurus triostegus Heckel, 1843
  • Wallago attu ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
  • Wallago hexanema ( Kner, 1866)
  • Wallago leerii Bleeker, 1851
  • Wallago maculatus Inger & Chin, 1959
  • Wallago micropogon Ng, 2004
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