Claroteidae

Short description: Family of fishes

Claroteidae

Giraffe catfish (Auchenoglanis occidentalis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Siluriformes
Superfamily:  | Bagroidea
Family:  | Claroteidae
Bleeker, 1862
Genera

Subfamily Auchenoglanidinae
Auchenoglanis
Notoglanidium
Parauchenoglanis
Subfamily Claroteinae
Amarginops
Bathybagrus
Chrysichthys
Clarotes
Gephyroglanis
Lophiobagrus
Pardiglanis
Phyllonemus
incertae sedis Eaglesomia †

The Claroteidae are a family of catfish (order Siluriformes) found in Africa.[1] This family was separated from Bagridae.[2] However, the monophyly of the family is sometimes contested.[3]

The 12 genera contain 86 known species of claroteids in two subfamilies, Claroteinae and Auchenoglanidinae.[1][2] The subfamily Auchenoglanidinae is sometimes classified as a separate family Auchenoglanididae. This group was also often formerly placed in Bagridae.[1] The monophyly of Auchenoglanidinae is uncontested; it contains the three genera Auchenoglanis, Parauchenoglanis and Notoglanidium.[3][4]

Two commonly known species are the giraffe catfish, Auchenoglanis occidentalis, and the African big-eye catfish, Chrysichthys longipinnis.

Claroteids have moderately elongated bodies, usually with four pairs of barbels, an adipose fin, and strong pectoral and dorsal fin spines.[2]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Nelson, Joseph, S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. ISBN 0-471-25031-7.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Geerinckx, T.; Adriaens, D.; Teugels, G. G.; Verraes, W. (2004). "A systematic revision of the African catfish genus Parauchenoglanis (Siluriformes: Claroteidae)". Journal of Natural History 38 (6): 775–803. doi:10.1080/0022293021000039160.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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:ANCCSF2.0.CO;2].
4. ↑ 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". Zootaxa 3691 (1): 165–191. http://www.fun-morph.ugent.be/sites/default/files/Geerinckx 2013 Notoglanidium.pdf. Retrieved 2017-08-05.

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