Neosilurus

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Neosilurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Plotosidae
Genus: Neosilurus
Steindachner, 1867
Type species
Neosilurus hyrtlii
Steindachner, 1867
Species

See text.
Synonyms
  • Neosilurus Castelnau, 1878
  • Eumeda Castelnau, 1878
  • Cainosilurus Macleay, 1881
  • Lambertia Perugia, 1894
  • Anyperistius Ogilby, 1908
  • Lambertichthys Whitley, 1938

Neosilurus is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Plotosidae. It includes eleven species.[1]

[edit] Species

  • Neosilurus ater (Perugia, 1894)
  • Neosilurus brevidorsalis (Günther, 1867)
  • Neosilurus coatesi (Allen, 1985)
  • Neosilurus equinus (Weber, 1913)
  • Neosilurus gjellerupi (Weber, 1913)
  • Neosilurus gloveri Allen & Feinberg, 1998
  • Neosilurus hyrtlii Steindachner, 1867
  • Neosilurus idenburgi (Nichols, 1940)
  • Neosilurus mollespiculum Allen & Feinberg, 1998
  • Neosilurus novaeguineae (Weber, 1907)
  • Neosilurus pseudospinosus Allen & Feinberg, 1998

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa 1418: 1–628. 
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