Mochokinae
Appearance
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Siluriformes |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Mochokidae
Subfamilia: Mochokinae
Genera:
Acanthocleithron –
Microsynodontis –
Mochokiella –
Mochokus –
Synodontis
Name
[edit]- Mochokinae Jordan, 1923: 150
- Type genus: Mochokus de Joannis, 1835
- Etymology: Mochok is a name used for this kind of fishes by native people in some of their distribution areas.
References
[edit]- de Joannis, L. (1835): Observations sur les poissons du Nil, et description de plusieurs espèces nouvelles. Magasin de Zoologie, 1835 (5 anneé): 53 pp.
- Jordan, D. S. (1923): A classification of fishes including families and genera as far as known. Stanford University Publications, University Series, Biological Sciences, 3 (2): 77–243 + i-x.
- 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.
- Ferraris, C.J., Jr. 2007: Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa, 1418: 1–628. (pdf)