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: Siluridae
Genera: Belodontichthys – Ceratoglanis – Hemisilurus – Hito – Kryptopterus – Micronema – Ompok – Parasilurus – Phalacronotus – Pterocryptis – Silurichthys – Silurus – Wallago
References
Ng, H.H. & Kottelat, M. 2013. After eighty years of misidentification, a name for the glass catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae). Zootaxa 3630(2): 308–316. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3630.2.6 Reference page.
Links
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2006. FishBase, version (02/2006). [1]
Vernacular names
Deutsch: Echte Welse
English: Sheatfish
日本語: ナマズ科
한국어: 메기과
lietuvių: Šaminės
Nederlands: Meervallen
polski: Sumowate
română: Somn
српски / srpski: Сомови
svenska: Egentliga malar
ไทย: วงศ์ปลาเนื้ออ่อน
Türkçe: Yayın balığı
Tiếng Việt: Họ Cá nheo
Siluridae is the nominate family of catfishes in the order Siluriformes. About 105 living species of silurids are placed in 12[1] or 14[3] genera.
Although silurids occur across much of Europe and Asia, they are most diverse in Southeast Asia, beyond which their diversity decreases in temperate East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Southwest Asia, and Europe. Silurids are apparently absent from much of central Asia.[3] The family can be divided into two groups, a temperate North Eurasian clade and a more diverse subtropical/tropical South and Southeast Asian clade.[3]
Notable species
Wels catfish, Silurus glanis
Phantom catfish, Kryptopterus vitreolus
Wallago attu
Wallagonia leerii
Aristotle's catfish
Amur catfish
Phalacronotus apogon
Ompok
Common Features
The Family Siluridae is very diverse, with not very many distinctive features among all species, but some major ones include gigantism, and smaller versions of attributes that Catfish regularly have, such as smaller fins and whiskers. These catfish do not have spines before their dorsal fins or adipose fins, and their pelvic fins are either small or absent. The anal fin base is usually very long.[1] The largest species in this family is Silurus glanis, the Wels catfish,[1] which can grow to lengths over 3 m (9.8 ft) and weigh up to 300 lb (140 kg).
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Siluridae.
Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2021). "Siluridae" in FishBase. June 2021 version.
Roberts, T. R. (2014). "Wallago Bleeker, 1851 and Wallagonia Myers, 1938 (Ostariophysi, Siluridae), Distinct Genera of Tropical Asian Catfishes, with Description of †Wallago maemohensis from the Miocene of Thailand". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 55 (1): 35–47. doi:10.3374/014.055.0103.
Bornbusch, A.H. (1995). "Phylogenetic relationships within the Eurasian catfish family Siluridae (Pisces: Siluriformes), with comments on generic validities and biogeography". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 115: 1–46. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb02322.x.
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