Catfish genera are the genera of the order Siluriformes, whose families Animal Diversity Web labels with names such as sea catfishes, airbreathing catfishes, loach catfishes and armored catfishes. In the family Loricariidae, GBIF is led by Hypostomus with about 182 descendant taxa, Ancistrus with about 107, Rineloricaria with about 84, Hisonotus with about 77 and Chaetostoma with about 65. In the Bagridae it keeps 26, led by Mystus, Hemibagrus, Bagrus and Pseudobagrus, and in the Siluridae 13, led by Silurus with about 71, Ompok with about 46 and Pterocryptis with about 26.
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Animal Diversity Web: Siluriformes
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Family Ariidae (Sea catfishes)
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Loricariidae
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Loricariidae
"canonicalName":"Hypostomus","vernacularName":"Suckermouth Catfishes","authorship":"Lacepède, 1803","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Lacepède, B.G.E. (1803). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome Cinquieme. 5(1-21): i-lxviii + 1-803 + index.","numDescendants":182
Children of Loricariidae: Ancistrus
"canonicalName":"Ancistrus","vernacularName":"Antenna Armored Catfish","authorship":"Kner, 1854","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Kner, R. (1854). Die Hypostomiden. Zweite Hauptgruppe der Familie der Panzerfische. (Loricata vel Goniodontes). Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. v. 7: 251-286 [separate 1-36], Pls. 1-5.","numDescendants":107
Children of Loricariidae: Rineloricaria
"canonicalName":"Rineloricaria","authorship":"Bleeker, 1862","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Bleeker, Pieter in Bleeker, Pieter. 1862.","numDescendants":84
Children of Loricariidae: Hisonotus
"canonicalName":"Hisonotus","vernacularName":"Pixy Catfishes","authorship":"Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Eigenmann, C. H. ; Eigenmann, R. S. (1889). Preliminary notes on South American Nematognathi. II. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2). 2: 28-56.","numDescendants":77
Children of Loricariidae: Chaetostoma
"canonicalName":"Chaetostoma","vernacularName":"Bristlemouths","authorship":"Tschudi, 1846","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Tschudi, J. J. von. (1846). Ichthyologie. . In: Untersuchungen über die Fauna Peruana. Scheitlin & Zollikofer, St. Gallen. Pp. ii-xxx + 1-35, Pls. 1-6.1844-46, in 12 parts. [Parts 1-2 issued in 1844, 3-5 in 1845, 6-12 in 1846. Overall pp. 1-693. Fishes evidently all in 1846.","numDescendants":65
View the Source GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Bagridae
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Bagridae
"canonicalName":"Mystus","vernacularName":"Mystus Catfish","authorship":"Scopoli, 1777","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Scopoli, Giovanni A. 1777. Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. Apud Wolfgangum Gerle, Prague.: ; 1-506;.","numDescendants":106
Children of Bagridae: Hemibagrus
"canonicalName":"Hemibagrus","authorship":"Bleeker, 1862","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":" Atlas ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises , vol. 2. Siluroïdes, Chacoïdes et Hétérobranchoïdes, p. 9","numDescendants":61
Children of Bagridae: Bagrus
"canonicalName":"Bagrus","authorship":"Bosc, 1816","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":" Nouveau dictionnaire d’histoire naturelle , vol. 3, p. 147","numDescendants":37
Children of Bagridae: Pseudobagrus
"canonicalName":"Pseudobagrus","authorship":"Bleeker, 1858","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Bleeker, Pieter. 1859. Enumeratio specierum piscium hucusque in Archipelago indico observatarum, adjectis habitationibus citationibusque, ubi descriptiones earum recentiores reperiuntur, nec non speciebus Musei Bleekeriani Bengalensibus, Japonicis, Capensibus Tasmanicisque. Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae 6: i-xxxvi, 1-276.","numDescendants":36
View the Source GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Siluridae
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Siluridae
"canonicalName":"Silurus","authorship":"Linnaeus, 1758","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ","numDescendants":71
Children of Siluridae: Ompok
"canonicalName":"Ompok","authorship":"Lacepède, 1803","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Lacepède, B.G.E. (1803). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome Cinquieme. 5(1-21): i-lxviii + 1-803 + index.","numDescendants":46
Children of Siluridae: Pterocryptis
"canonicalName":"Pterocryptis","authorship":"Peters, 1861","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Peters, W. (C. H.). (1861). Über zwei neue Gattungen von Fischen aus dem Ganges. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1861. : 712-713.","numDescendants":26
View the Source Wikipedia: Heterobranchus
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Heterobranchus is a genus of airbreathing catfishes native to Africa, though it had a wider distribution in prehistory.
Clarias - Wikipedia
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Clarias is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Clariidae, the airbreathing catfishes.
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