Ariopsis (fish)

Ariopsis
Ariopsis felis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Ariidae
Subfamily:	Ariinae
Genus:	Ariopsis T. N. Gill, 1861
Type species
Silurus felis Linnaeus, 1766

Ariopsis is a genus of sea catfishes found along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the Americas. The genus has been merged with Sciades by some authorities. ^[1]

Species

There are currently eight described extant species in this genus: ^[2]

• Ariopsis assimilis (Günther, 1864) (Mayan sea catfish)
• Ariopsis canteri Acero P., Betancur-R & Marceniuk, 2017
• Ariopsis felis (Linnaeus, 1766) (Hardhead sea catfish)
• Ariopsis gilberti (Jordan & Williams, 1895)
• Ariopsis guatemalensis (Günther, 1864) (Blue sea catfish)
• Ariopsis jimenezi Marceniuk, Acero P., Cooke & Betancur-R, 2017
• Ariopsis seemanni (Günther, 1864) (Tete sea catfish)
• Ariopsis simonsi (Starks, 1906)

The extinct species † Ariopsis stauroforus (Lynn & Melland, 1939) is known from the Miocene-aged Calvert Formation of Maryland, US. ^{[3] [4]}

References

1. Bailly, Nicolas (2013). "Ariopsis Gill, 1861". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 28 July 2017.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ariopsis". FishBase . August 2025 version.
3. Lundberg, J. G. (1975). "The Fossil Catfishes of North America. Claude W. Hibbard Memorial Volume II". Papers on Paleontology. II (11). Museum of Paleontology, The University of Michigan: 1–51.
4. Carnevale, Giorgio; Godfrey, Stephen James (2018). "Miocene bony fishes from the Calvert, Choptank, St. Marys and Eastover Formations, Chesapeake Group, Maryland and Virginia". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (100).