Silurus

Silurus Temporal range: Late Miocene to present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Silurus biwaensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Siluridae
Genus:	Silurus Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Silurus glanis Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
Siluris (misspelling)

Silurus is a genus of catfishes native to Europe and Asia.

Species

There are currently 20 recognized species in this genus: ^[1]

• Silurus aristotelis Garman, 1890 (Aristotle's catfish)
• Silurus asotus Linnaeus, 1758 (Amur catfish)
• Silurus biwaensis Tomoda, 1961 (Lake Biwa giant catfish)
• Silurus burmanensis Thant, 1967 ^[2]
• Silurus caobangensis V. H. Nguyễn, T. H. N. Vũ & T. D. P. Nguyễn, 2015 (yellow catfish) ^[3]
• Silurus chantrei Sauvage, 1882
• Silurus dakrongensis V. H. Nguyễn, T. H. N. Vũ & T. D. P. Nguyễn, 2015 (Dakrong catfish) ^[3]
• Silurus duanensis X. Y. Hu, J. H. Lan & C. G. Zhang, 2004
• Silurus glanis Linnaeus, 1758 (Wels catfish)
• Silurus grahami Regan, 1907
• Silurus langsonensis V. H. Nguyễn, T. H. N. Vũ & T. D. P. Nguyễn, 2015 (flower catfish) ^[3]
• Silurus lanzhouensis H. L. Chen, 1977 (Lanzhou catfish)
• Silurus lithophilus Tomoda, 1961 (rock catfish)
• Silurus longibarbatus Li, J, Li, X. H., Zhang, G, He, Y. J., 2019
• Silurus mento Regan, 1904 (Kunming catfish)
• Silurus meridionalis H. L. Chen, 1977 (Yangtze catfish)
• Silurus microdorsalis (Mori, 1936) (slender catfish)
• Silurus soldatovi Nikolskii & Soin, 1948 (Soldatov's catfish)
• Silurus tomodai Y. Hibino & Tabata, 2018 ^[4]
• Silurus triostegus Heckel, 1843 (Mesopotamian catfish)

Fossil species

• Silurus joergi Gaudant, 2015 Late Miocene of Germany. ^[5]
• Silurus spinosus Kovalchuk & Ferraris, 2016 Late Miocene of Ukraine. ^[6]

References

1. "World Register of Marine Species" . Retrieved 2021-10-20.
2. Britz R., Win T. (2010). "Redescription of Silurus burmanensis Thant 1967: a Silurus not a Pterocryptis (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Siluridae)". Zootaxa. 2647: 61–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2647.1.5.
3. Nguyễn Văn Hảo; Vũ Thị Hồng Nguyên; Nguyễn Thị Diệu Phương (2015). "Three Fish Species of The Genus Silurus Linnaeus, 1758, (Siluridae, Siluriformes) Newly Discovered in Northern Vietnam" (PDF). Journal of Science and Development. 13 (1): 65–74. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
4. Hibino, Yusuke; Tabata, Ryoichi (2018-08-15). "Description of a new catfish, Silurus tomodai (Siluriformes: Siluridae) from central Japan" . Zootaxa. 4459 (3): 507–524. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.5. ISSN   1175-5334.
5. Gaudant, Jean (11 April 2015). "Re-examination of the upper Miocene freshwater fish fauna from Höwenegg (Hegau, Germany)" . Swiss Journal of Palaeontology . 134 (1): 117–127. doi:10.1007/s13358-015-0073-2. ISSN   1664-2376 . Retrieved 21 March 2025– via Springer Open.
6. Kovalchuk, Oleksandr; Ferraris, Carl J. (2016). "Late Cenozoic catfishes of Southeastern Europe with inference to their taxonomy and palaeogeography". Palaeontologia Electronica. 19 (3). doi: 10.26879/616 .