Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Siluriformes
Familia: Ariidae
Genera: Amissidens – Amphiarius – Ariopsis – Arius – Aspistor – Bagre – Batrachocephalus – Brustiarius – †Cantarius – Carlarius – Cathorops – Cephalocassis – Chinchaysuyoa – Cinetodus – Cochlefelis – Cryptarius – Galeichthys – Genidens – Hemiarius – Hexanematichthys – Ketengus – Nedystoma – Nemapteryx – Netuma – Notarius – Occidentarius – Osteogeneiosus – Plicofollis – Potamarius – Potamosilurus – Precathorops – Sciades – Selenaspis – Tetranesodon
Name
Ariidae Bleeker, 1862
Type genus: Arius Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1840
References
Bleeker, P. 1862–63. Atlas ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises, publié sous les auspices du Gouvernement colonial néêrlandais. Tome II. Siluroïdes, Chacoïdes et Hétérobranchoïdes. F. Muller, Amsterdam. 1–112, Pls. 49–101. Reference page.
Marceniuk, A.P.; Menezes, N.A. 2007: Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a redefinition of the genera. Zootaxa, 1416: 1–126. Full text
Marceniuk, A.P.; Birindelli, J.L.O. 2010: Morphology of the Gas Bladder in Sea Catfishes (Siluriformes: Ariidae). Zootaxa, 2579: 59–68. Preview
Marceniuk, A.P., Marchena, J., Oliveira, C. & Betancur-R, R. 2019. Chinchaysuyoa, a new genus of the fish family Ariidae (Siluriformes), with a redescription of Chinchaysuyoa labiata from Ecuador and a new species description from Peru. Zootaxa 4551(3): 361–378. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.3.5 Paywall Reference page.
Salimi, N., Loh, K.H., Dhillon, S.K. & Chong, V.C. 2016. Fully-automated identification of fish species based on otolith contour: using short-time Fourier transform and discriminant analysis (STFT-DA). PeerJ 4:e1664. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1664 Reference page.
Links
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2006. FishBase, version (02/2006). [1]
Vernacular names
Afrikaans: Seebabers
Deutsch: Kreuzwelse
English: Ariid catfish
français: Poissons-chats marins
日本語: ハマギギ科
lietuvių: Jūriniai šamai
Nederlands: Christusvissen
polski: Ariusowate
português: Bagre marinho
ไทย: ปลากดทะเล, ปลาอุก
Tiếng Việt: Họ Cá úc
The Ariidae or ariid catfish are a family of catfish that mainly live in marine waters with many freshwater and brackish water species. They are found worldwide in tropical to warm temperate zones. The family includes about 143 species.
Taxonomy
The relationships of this family are not yet clear.[1] Two of the genera, Gogo and Ancharius, have been moved to a separate family called Anchariidae.[2] The Ariidae are divided into three subfamilies: Galeichthys is the only genus classified in the subfamily Galeichthyinae and similarly Bagre is the only genus in the subfamily Bagreinae,[3] while the rest of the genera are classified in the subfamily Ariinae.[4]
Previously, the family Ariidae has been grouped in the superfamily Doradoidea, but then it was moved into Bagroidea (along with Austroglanididae, Claroteidae, Schilbeidae, Pangasiidae, Bagridae, Malapteruridae, and Pimelodidae.[5] It has also been classified in a superfamily Arioidea containing Ariidae and Anchariidae.[6]
Distribution and habitat
Ariids are found worldwide in tropical to warm temperate zones.[5] Ariids are unusual among catfish in that they live primarily in the sea; the majority of catfish families are strictly freshwater and have little tolerance for brackish or marine conditions. Ariid catfish are found in shallow temperate and tropical seas around the coastlines of North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Many other species of catfish are also present in freshwater habitats; some species only occur in freshwater. In North and South America, about 43 species extend into brackish water or are found exclusively in fresh water.
Appearance and anatomy
Ariid catfish have a deeply forked caudal fin. Usually, three pairs of barbels are present. They possess some bony plates on their heads and near their dorsal fins.[5] At least some species have venomous spines in their dorsal and pectoral fins.[7]
Skull
The left image has Vitruvian Man superimposed where Jesus is said to be depicted in an ariid catfish skull, while the right image is simply the skull. In the upper left hand corner, the small black line provides a scale of 1 cm (0.39 in).
The gafftopsail catfish is sometimes called the "crucifix catfish" because its dried skull bones resembles a cruciform man. This is an example of pareidolia.[8]
Ecology
Beyond their maritime habitat, ariid catfish have a number of unique adaptations that set them apart from other catfish. Most, if not all species, are mouthbrooding fish, with the male carrying a small clutch of a few dozen, tiny eggs for about two months until the eggs hatch and the fry become free-swimming.[9][10]
Relationship to humans
One well-known ariid catfish is the hardhead catfish, Ariopsis felis, abundant along the Western Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to Mexico. Although hardhead catfish reach a weight of about 5.5 kg (12 lb) and are edible, they have a mixed reputation as game fish and are often considered nuisance bait stealers.[11]
A less-abundant species, more highly regarded as a game and food fish, is the gafftopsail catfish, Bagre marinus. The range of the gafftop extends further south, to Venezuela.
The smaller ariid catfishes have minor value as public and home aquarium fish. In 1972, the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago received worldwide acclaim for the first successful breeding of Ariopsis felis in captivity, a feat they have repeated several times since. The Colombian shark catfish Sciades seemanni (until recently Hexanematichthys seemanni) is a fairly popular aquarium fish, though it has been traded under a variety of spurious names, such as Arius jordani and Arius seemani.[12] Less commonly traded aquarium species include Arius berneyi and Arius graeffei.[13]
References
"A New Genus of the Fish Family Ariidae (Siluriformes), with A Redescription of Chinchaysuyoa labiata from Ecuador and A New Species Description from Peru". Novataxa. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
Ng, Heok Hee; Sparks, John S. (2005). "Revision of the endemic Malagasy catfish family Anchariidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes), with descriptions of a new genus and three new species". Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters (PDF). 16 (4): 303–323.
"Ariidae Bleeker, 1858". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
Acero P., Arturo; Betancur-R., Ricardo (June 2007). "Monophyly, affinities, and subfamilial clades of sea catfishes (Siluriformes: Ariidae)" (PDF). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters. 18 (2): 133–143. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
Nelson, Joseph S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25031-7.
Sullivan, JP; Lundberg JG; Hardman M (2006). "A phylogenetic analysis of the major groups of catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes) using rag1 and rag2 nuclear gene sequences". Mol Phylogenet Evol. 41 (3): 636–62. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.044. PMID 16876440.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2007). "Bagre marinus" in FishBase. May 2007 version.
The Crucifix Catfish by Allan James
Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2007). "Ariidae" in FishBase. May 2007 version.
Ariopsis felis
"Hardhead Catfish". Archived from the original on 2006-07-21. Retrieved 2006-07-06.
Hexanematichthys seemanni
The catfish family Ariidae
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