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: Clariidae
Genus: Bathyclarias
Species (12): B. atribranchus – B. euryodon – B. filicibarbis – B. foveolatus – B. gigas – B. ilesi – B. jacksoni – B. longibarbis – B. loweae – B. nyasensis – B. rotundifrons – B. worthingtoni
Name
Bathyclarias Jackson, 1959: 112
Gender: masculine
Type species: Clarias longibarbis Worthington, 1933
Fixation: original designation
References
Primary references
Jackson, P.B N. 1959: Revision of the clariid catfishes of Nyasaland, with a description of a new genus and seven new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 132 (1): 109–128. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1959.tb05517.x
Additional references
Anseaume, L. & Teugels, G.G. 1999: On the rehabilitation of the clariid catfish genus Bathyclarias endemic to the East African Rift Lake Malawi. Journal of Fish Biology, 55: 405–419. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1999.tb00687.x
Ferraris, Carl J. 2007: Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa, 1418: 1–628. Full text
Greenwood, P.H. 1961: A revision of the genus Dinotopterus Blgr. (Pisces, Clariidae) with notes on the comparative anatomy of the suprabranchial organs in the Clariidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, 7 (4): 215–241. BHL BioStor
Links
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Bathyclarias species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024. [species list needs updating, some species still erroneously under Dinotopterus]
Bathyclarias and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version. [species list needs updating, some species still erroneously under Dinotopterus]
ITIS
Bathyclarias is a genus of airbreathing catfish endemic to Lake Malawi in Africa.[1] Several are components of local commercial fisheries.
Species
There are currently contains eight recognized species:[2]
Bathyclarias atribranchus (Greenwood, 1961)
Bathyclarias eurydon P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
Bathyclarias filicibarbis P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
Bathyclarias foveolatus (P. B. N. Jackson, 1955)
Bathyclarias longibarbis (Worthington, 1933)
Bathyclarias nyasensis (Worthington, 1933)
Bathyclarias rotundifrons P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
Bathyclarias worthingtoni P. B. N. Jackson, 1959
References
Anseaume, L.; and G.G. Teugels (1999). On the rehabilitation of the clariid catfish genus Bathyclarias endemic to the East African Rift Lake Malawi. Fish Biology 55(2): 405–419. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1999.tb00687.x
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Bathyclarias". FishBase. December 2011 version.
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