Synodontis

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: Mochokidae
Subfamilia: Mochokinae
Genus: Synodontis
Species (132): S. acanthomias – S. acanthoperca – S. afrofischeri – S. alberti – S. albolineatus – S. angelicus – S. annectens – S. ansorgii – S. arnoulti – S. aterrimus – S. bastiani – S. batensoda – S. batesii – S. brichardi – S. budgetti – S. camelopardalis – S. carineus – S. caudalis – S. caudovittatus – S. centralis – S. clarias – S. comoensis – S. congicus – S. contractus – S. courteti – S. cuangoanus – S. decorus – S. dekimpei – S. depauwi – S. dhonti – S. dorsomaculatus – S. eupterus – S. fascipinna – S. filamentosus – S. flavitaeniatus – S. frontosus – S. fuelleborni – S. geledensis – S. gobroni – S. grandiops – S. granulosus – S. greshoffi – S. guttatus – S. haugi – S. ilebrevis – S. irsacae – S. iturii – S. katangae – S. khartoumensis – S. koensis – S. kogonensis – S. laessoei – S. leopardus – S. leopardinus – S. levequei – S. longirostris – S. longispinis – S. lucipinnis – S. lufirae – S. macrophthalmus – S. macrops – S. macropunctatus – S. macrostigma – S. macrostoma – S. manni – S. marmoratus – S. matthesi – S. melanopterus – S. melanostictus – S. membranaceus – S. multimaculatus – S. multipunctatus – S. nebulosus – S. ngouniensis – S. nigrita – S. nigriventris – S. nigromaculatus – S. njassae – S. notatus – S. nummifer – S. obesus – S. ocellifer – S. omias – S. orientalis – S. ornatipinnis – S. ornatissimus – S. ouemeensis – S. pardalis – S. petricola – S. pleurops – S. polli – S. polyodon – S. polystigma – S. pulcher – S. punctifer – S. punctulatus – S. punu – S. rebeli – S. resupinatus – S. ricardoae – S. robbianus – S. robertsi – S. ruandae – S. rufigiensis – S. rukwaensis – S. schall – S. schoutedeni – S. serpentis – S. serratus – S. smiti – S. soloni – S. sorex – S. steindachneri – S. tanganyicae – S. tessmanni – S. thamalakanensis – S. thysi – S. tourei – S. unicolor – S. vaillanti – S. vanderwaali – S. velifer – S. vermiculatus – S. victoriae – S. violaceus – S. voltae – S. waterloti – S. woleuensis – S. woosnami – S. xiphias – S. zambezensis – S. zanzibaricus

Name

Synodontis Cuvier, 1816: 203

Type species: Silurus clarias Linnaeus, 1758 [Type by subsequent designation of Bleeker, 1862: 6]

Etymology: Synodontis is not – as often assumed - a composite word derived directly from the Greek words syn (= together) and odous (= tooth) but a word in its own right. Cuvier (1816) himself provides an etymology - “nom ancien d'un poisson du Nil, indéterminé” (= ancient name for an undetermined fish from the Nile). The oldest finding of it is in inter alia the Naturalis historia, one of the very first works on natural history, written by Gaius Plinius Secundus Maior, better known as Pliny the Elder, a learned Roman who lived from 23 to 79 AD. In an English translation (Vol. VI, Chapter 67, p. 457) can be found: “Synodontitis is a stone found in the brain of the fish known as synodus”. The genitive of the masculine Latin noun synodus is given in Latin dictionaries as synodontis (= “of synodus”).

Synonyms

Brachysynodontis Bleeker, 1862
Hemisynodontis Bleeker, 1862
Leiosynodontis Bleeker, 1862
Pseudosynodontis Bleeker, 1862

References

Cuvier G.L. 1816–1817. Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Avec Figures, dessinées d'après nature. Tome II. Contenant Les reptiles, les poissons, les mollusques et les annélides. Edition 1, Deterville, Paris. pp. i–xviii + 1–532. [Pls. 9–10, in v. 4] DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.41460 BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 203]
Bostock, J. & Riley, H. T.; 1857: The Natural History of Pliny. Vol. VI. London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden.
Day, J. J., Peart, C. R., Brown, K. J., Friel, J. P., Bills, R. & Moritz, T.; (in press): Continental Diversification of an African Catfish Radiation (Mochokidae: Synodontis). Systematic Biology, First published online: January 9, 2013 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syt001
De Chambrier, A. et al. 2011: Tapeworms (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea) of Synodontis spp. (Siluriformes) in Africa: survey of species and their redescriptions. Zootaxa, 2976: 1–14. Preview
Musschoot, T. and P. Lalèyè 2008: Designation of a neotype for Synodontis schall (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) and description of two new species of Synodontis (Siluriformes: Mochokidae). Journal of Natural History, 42 (17-18): 1303–1331.
Pinton, A., Agnèse, J.-F., Paugy, D. & Otero, O.; (in press): A large-scale phylogeny of Synodontis (Mochokidae, Siluriformes) reveals the influence of geological events on continental diversity during the Cenozoic. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Available online 28 December 2012 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.12.009
Poll, M. (1971): Révision des Synodontis Africains (Famille Mochocidae). Annales du Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Serie 8 Zoologie, 191: 1–497.
Schraml, E., 2011: Das grammatikalische Geschlecht von Synodontis - aber gibt es diese Gattung überhaupt noch? Teil 1: Ist Synodontis männlich oder weiblich? BSSW-Report, 23 (1): 18–24.
Schraml, E., 2011: Das grammatikalische Geschlecht von Synodontis - aber gibt es diese Gattung überhaupt noch? Teil 2: Aber gibt es Synodontis überhaupt noch? BSSW-Report, 23 (2): 27–30.
Schraml, E., 2012: Das grammatikalische Geschlecht von Synodontis - aber gibt es diese Gattung überhaupt noch? Teil 3: Aber gibt es Synodontis überhaupt noch? BSSW-Report, 23 (4): 20–28.
Vigliotta, T.R. 2008. A phylogenetic study of the African catfish family Mochokidae (Osteichthyes, Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a key to genera. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 157: 73–136. DOI: 10.1635/0097-3157(2008)157[73:APSOTA]2.0.CO;2, JSTOR Reference page.
Vreven, E. & Zamba, A.I. 2010: Synodontis carineae, a new species of mochokid catfish from the Kouilou-Niari River basin, Africa (Siluriformes: Mochokidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 21 (4): 359–367. Abstract & excerpt
Synodontis 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.