Cathorops

Cathorops

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Siluriformes

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: Cathorops
Species: C. agassizi – C. aguadulce – C. arenatus – C. belizensis – C. dasycephalus – C. festae – C. fuerthii – †C. goeldii – C. higuchii – C. hypophthalmus – C. kailolae – C. mapale – C. melanopus
C. multiradiatus – C. spixii – C. steindachneri – C. tuyra – C. wayuu

Name

Cathorops Jordan & Gilbert, 1882

Type species: Arius hypophthalmus ♂ Steindachner, 1876, by monotypy.

References

• Jordan, D. S. & C. H. Gilbert (1883) A review of the siluroid fishes found on the Pacific coast of tropical America, with descriptions of three new species. Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission. 2: 34–54.
• 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., Marchena, J. & Betancur-R, R. 2016. Cathorops festae (Boulenger 1898) (Siluriformes; Ariidae), a valid species from Ecuador and Peru. Zootaxa 4170(1): 137–148. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4170.1.7. Reference page. 
• 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
• Marceniuk, A.P. & Betancur-R., R. (2008) Revision of the species of the genus Cathorops (Siluriformes: Ariidae) from Mesoamerica and the Central American Caribbean, with description of three new species. Neotropical Ichthyology. 6(1): 25–44 Full text.

Links

• Cathorops and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Cathorops species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.