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Claroteidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Superfamily: Bagroidea
Family: Claroteidae
Bleeker, 1862
Genera

Subfamily Auchenoglanidinae
 Anaspidoglanis
 Auchenoglanis
 Liauchenoglanis
 Notoglanidium
 Parauchenoglanis
 Platyglanis
Subfamily Claroteinae
 Amarginops
 Bathybagrus
 Chrysichthys
 Clarotes
 Gephyroglanis
 Lophiobagrus
 Pardiglanis
 Phyllonemus
incertae sedis  Eaglesomia †

The Claroteidae are a family of catfish (Order Siluriformes) found in Africa.1 This family was separated from Bagridae.2 However, the monophyly of the family is sometimes contested.3

There are 13 genera and 86 known species of Claroteids in two subfamilies, Claroteinae and Auchenoglanidinae.12 The subfamily Auchenoglanidinae is sometimes classified as a separate family Auchenoglanididae. This group was also often formerly placed in Bagridae.1 The monophyly of Auchenoglanidinae is uncontested; it contains the six genera Anaspidoglanis, Auchenoglanis, Parauchenoglanis, Notoglanidium, Liauchenoglanis, and Platyglanis.3

Two commonly known species are the giraffe catfish, Auchenoglanis occidentalis, and the African big eye catfish, Chrysichthys longipinnis.

Claroteids have a moderately elongate body, usually four pairs of barbels, an adipose fin, and strong pectoral and dorsal fin spines.2

References

  1. ^ a b c Nelson, Joseph, S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. ISBN 0471250317. 
  2. ^ a b c Geerinckx, T.; Adriaens, D.; Teugels, G. G.; Verraes, W. (2004). "A systematic revision of the African catfish genus Parauchenoglanis (Siluriformes: Claroteidae)". Journal of Natural History 38 (6): 775-803. 
  3. ^ a b Otero, Olga; Likius, Andossa; Vignaud, Patrick; Brunet, Michel (2007). "A New Claroteid Catfish (Siluriformes) From the Upper Miocene of Toros-Menalla, Chad: Auchenoglanis soye, sp. nov.". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (2): 285-294. 
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