Auchenoglanididae

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Auchenoglanididae
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Giraffe catfish (Auchenoglanis occidentalis)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Superfamily: Bagroidea
Family: Auchenoglanididae
Jayaram, 1966
Genera

  Auchenoglanis
  Notoglanidium
  Parauchenoglanis

Auchenoglanididae, also known as flatnose catfishes, is a family of catfish native to freshwater habitats in tropical Africa. [1] They were previously considered a subfamily of the family Claroteidae, but are now generally treated as a distinct family. [2] [3] The monophyly of Auchenoglanidinae is uncontested. [4] [5]

It contains the following genera:

References

  1. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Auchenoglanididae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  2. ↑ Nelson, Joseph, S. (2006). Fishes of the World . John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN   0-471-25031-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Schedel, Frederic D. B.; Chakona, Albert; Sidlauskas, Brian L.; Popoola, Michael O.; Usimesa Wingi, Nadine; Neumann, Dirk; Vreven, Emmanuel J. W. M. N.; Schliewen, Ulrich K. (2022). "New phylogenetic insights into the African catfish families Mochokidae and Austroglanididae". Journal of Fish Biology. 100 (5): 1171–1186. doi:10.1111/jfb.15014. ISSN   1095-8649. PMC   9310817 . PMID   35184288.
  4. ↑ Otero, Olga; Likius, Andossa; Vignaud, Patrick; Brunet, Michel (2007). "A New Claroteid Catfish (Siluriformes) From the Upper Miocene of Toros-Menalla, Chad: Auchenoglanis soye, sp. nov". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (2): 285–294. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[285:ANCCSF]2.0.CO;2.
  5. ↑ T. Geerinckx; E. Vreven; M. Dierick; L.V. Hoorebeke; D. Adriaens (2013). "Revision of Notoglanidium and related genera (Siluriformes: Claroteidae) based on morphology and osteology" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3691 (1): 165–191. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-05. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
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