Chrysichthys

Chrysichthys
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Claroteidae
Subfamily: Claroteinae
Genus: Chrysichthys
Bleeker, 1858
Type species
Pimelodus auratus
É. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1809
Species

See text.

Chrysichthys is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to Africa. Two fossil species are known. Chrysichthys macrotis, Van Neer, 1994, is known from the Miocene-Pliocene of the Albertine Rift in Uganda and Chrysichthys mahengeensis, Murray & Budney, 2003, is known from the Eocene of Mahenge, Tanzania.[1]

Species

There are currently 42 recognized species in this genus:[2]

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.
  2. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Chrysichthys in FishBase. December 2011 version.


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