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: Nemapteryx
Species: N. armiger – N. augusta – N. caelata – N. macronotacantha – N. nenga
Name
Nemapteryx Ogilby, 1908
Type species: Arius stirlingi Ogilby, 1898, by original designation.
Gender: feminine.
Nemapteryx caelata
References
Ogilby, J. D. (1908) New or little known fishes in the Queensland Museum. Annals of the Queensland Museum. 9(1): 1–41.
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
Nemapteryx and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Nemapteryx species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 08/2021.
Nemapteryx is a genus of sea catfishes found mostly in coastal marine and brackish waters from South Asia to Australia with one species (N. augusta) occurring exclusively in fresh waters of the Fly River in Papua New Guinea. There are currently six recognized species in this genus.
Species
Nemapteryx armiger (De Vis, 1884) (Threadfin catfish )
Nemapteryx augusta (T. R. Roberts, 1978) (Short barbelled catfish)
Nemapteryx bleekeri (Popta, 1900) (Bleeker's catfish)
Nemapteryx caelata (Valenciennes, 1840) (Engraved catfish)
Nemapteryx macronotacantha (Bleeker, 1846)
Nemapteryx nenga (F. Hamilton, 1822)
References
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Nemapteryx in FishBase. December 2011 version.
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