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
Genus: Cephalocassis
Species: C. bleekeri – C. borneensis – C. jatia – C. manillensis – C. melanochir
Name
Cephalocassis Bleeker, 1858
Type species: Arius melanochir Bleeker, 1852, by subsequent designation by Bleeker, 1862.
Gender: feminine.
Synonymy
Hemipimelodus Bleeker, 1858
References
Bleeker, P. (1857) Index descriptionum specierum piscium bleekerianarum in voluminibus I ad XIV diarii societatis scientiarum indo-Batavae. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië. 14: 447–486.
Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007) Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa, 1418: 1–628 Full text.
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
Links
Cephalocassis jatia
Cephalocassis 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.
Cephalocassis species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Cephalocassis is a genus of sea catfishes found along the coasts and in rivers and lakes of southern Asia from India to Malaysia. There are currently four described species in this genus.
Species
Cephalocassis borneensis (Bleeker, 1851)
Cephalocassis jatia (F. Hamilton, 1822) (River catfish)
Cephalocassis manillensis (Valenciennes, 1840)
Cephalocassis melanochir (Bleeker, 1852)
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cephalocassis". FishBase. December 2011 version.
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