Updated 12 Aug. 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Subfamily ACANTHODORADINAE Sabaj & Mariangeles 2021 Acanthodoras Bleeker 1862 acanthus (L.), from ákantha (Gr. ἄκανθα), thorn, probably referring to upper and hind parts of body of A. cataphractus covered by bony thorn-bearing; Doras, type genus of family Acanthodoras cataphractus (Linnaeus 1758) katáphraktos (Gr. κατάφρακτος), […]

Updated 12 Aug. 2024 PDF version (illustrated) Subfamily CENTROMOCHLINAE Bleeker 1862  Centromochlus Kner 1858 centro-, from kéntron (Gr. κέντρον), any sharp point; mochlós (Gr. μοχλός), lever, bar or crowbar, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to strongly serrated dorsal-fin spine of C. megalops (=heckelii) Centromochlus akwe Coelho, Chamon & Sarmento-Soares 2021 named for the Akwê (Xerente […]

Updated 12 Aug. 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Ameiurus Rafinesque 1820 á– (ἄ), Greek privative, not; meíōn (Gr. μείων), less; urus, from ourá (Gr. οὐρά), tail, referring to absence of deep notch in caudal fin compared with forked tail of Ictalurus; per Rafinesque, the “Tail entire” Ameiurus brunneus Jordan 1877 Medieval Latin […]

Revised 18 July 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Bearded Sea Catfishes Subfamily GALEICHTHYINAE Acero & Betancur-R. 2007 Galeichthys Valenciennes 1840 galeus, from galeós (Gr. Γαλεός), weasel; ichthýs (Gr. ἰχθύς), fish: Valenciennes explained that catfishes get their name from their cat-like whiskers (or barbels) and therefore named this genus after weasels, which also […]

Updated 30 June 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Bathyclarias Jackson 1959 bathýs (Gr. βαθύς), deep, referring to species flock endemic to Lake Malawi (or Nyasa), “where they occupy a variety of habitats down to the limits of dissolved oxygen”; Clarias, type genus of family Bathyclarias atribranchus (Greenwood 1961) atri-, from ater (L.), […]

Updated 23 May 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) African Suckermouth Catfishes Subfamily CHILOGLANIDINAE Vigliotta 2008 Atopochilus Sauvage 1879 átopos (Gr. ἄτοπος), strange, anomalous or out of place; cheī́los (Gr. χεῖλος), lip, referring to unusual oral morphology of A. savorgnani (thick lips that form a large sucking disc) Atopochilus chabanaudi Pellegrin 1938 in […]

Revised 18 July 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Amarginops Nichols & Griscom 1917 ἀ, Greek privative, i.e., without; marginis (L.), edge or border; ṓps (Gr. ὦψ), eye, referring to lack of a free orbital margin Amarginops hildae (Bell-Cross 1973) in honor of Hilda Jubb, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa (wife of ichthyologist […]

Revised 31 July 2024 PDF version (illustrated) Stream Catfishes Subfamily AKYSINAE Gill 1861 Akysis Bleeker 1858 a– (Gr. ἀ), negative prefix, e.g., without; kýstis (Gr. κύστις), bladder, referring to absence of a swim bladder Akysis bilustris Ng 2011 Latin for “that lasts two lustra,” i.e., 10 years, referring to fact that specimens in type series […]

Updated 7 June 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional infor-mation) Hillstream Catfishes Subfamily SISORINAE Bleeker 1858 Ayarnangra Roberts 2001 Ayar-, contraction of Ayeyar-, referring to Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River basin, Myanmar, where A. estuarius is endemic; Nangra, sisorid genus with which it is most superficially resembles Ayarnangra estuarius Roberts 2001 from aestuarius, scientific Neo-Latin for […]

Updated 5 May 2024 PDF version (with illustrations and additional information) Loach Catfishes Subfamily AMPHILIINAE Regan 1911 Amphilius Günther 1864 etymology not explained, perhaps amphi– (Gr. ἁμφί), on both sides or double, and leí̄os (Gr. λεῖος) smooth, referring to naked, soft-skinned (e.g., scaleless) body and absence of fin spines, therefore “smooth around the body” (Paul […]