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Ictaluroidea

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Ictaluroidea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Suborder: Siluroidei
Superfamily: Ictaluroidea
T. N. Gill, 1861[1]

The Ictaluroidea is a superfamily of catfish.[2][3] As of 2000, the position of the Ictaluroidea within the Siluriformes order is not certain.[4]

Taxonomy

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This superfamily consists of the following families:[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Superfamily Ictaluroidea - Nomenclature & Taxonomy - the Taxonomicon".
  2. ^ Joseph S. Nelson, [1], John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006
  3. ^ Lundberg, John G.; Luckenbill, Kyle R.; Babu, K.K. Subhash; Ng, Heok Hee (2014). "A tomographic osteology of the taxonomically puzzling catfish Kryptoglanis shajii(Siluriformes, Siluroidei,incertae sedis): Description and a first phylogenetic interpretation". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 163: 1–41. doi:10.1635/053.163.0101.
  4. ^ Joseph S. Nelson, Hans-Peter Schultze, Mark V. H. Wilson, [2], 2010]
  5. ^ Sullivan, John P.; Lundberg, John G.; Hardman, Michael (December 2006). "A phylogenetic analysis of the major groups of catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes) using rag1 and rag2 nuclear gene sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 41 (3): 636–662. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.044. PMID 16876440.