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: Mochokidae
Subfamilia: Chiloglanidinae
Genus: Euchilichthys
Species: E. astatodon – E. boulengeri – E. dybowskii – E. guentheri – E. royauxi
Name
Euchilichthys Boulenger, 1900: 522
Type species: Atopochilus guentheri Schilthuis, 1891
Type by subsequent designation
Type designated by Jordan, 1920: 488
References
Boulenger, G.A. 1900: On some little-known African silurid fishes of the subfamily Doradinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) 6 (36): 520–529. BHL
Vigliotta, T.R. 2008. A phylogenetic study of the African catfish family Mochokidae (Osteichthyes, Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a key to genera. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 157: 73–136. DOI: 10.1635/0097-3157(2008)157[73:APSOTA]2.0.CO;2, JSTOR Reference page.
Ferraris, C.J., Jr. 2007: Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa, 1418: 1–628. Full text
Vernacular names
English: Squeakers
Euchilichthys is a genus of upside-down catfishes native to the Congo River Basin in Middle Africa.
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus:[1]
Euchilichthys astatodon (Pellegrin, 1928)
Euchilichthys boulengeri Nichols & La Monte, 1934
Euchilichthys dybowskii (Vaillant, 1892)
Euchilichthys guentheri (Schilthuis, 1891)
Euchilichthys royauxi Boulenger, 1902
Description
Euchilichthys species have the lips and part of the barbels modified into a suckermouth.[2]
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Euchilichthys". FishBase. December 2011 version.
Nelson, Joseph S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25031-7.
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