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 Pangasiidae (Iridescent Sharks)

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Domestication of the indigenous Mekong catfish Pangasius krempfi : overview of the fishery in Cambodia and Laos and preliminary study of the artificial reproduction above the Khone waterfalls   Link here  
Helicophagus leptorhynchus, a new species of Molluscivorous Catfish from Indochina (Telostei: Pangasiidae)   Link here  
Osteology and Myology of the Cephalic Region and Pectoral Girdle of Pangasius macronema, With a Discussion on the Synapomorphies and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Pangasiidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes)   Link here  
Systematic revision of Pangasius polyuranodon (Siluriformes, Pangasiidae) with description of two new species   Link here  
       

 Phreatobiidae (Cistern catfishes)

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New data on Cistern Catfish, Phreatobius cisternarum, from subterranean waters at the mouth of the Amazon river (Siluriformes, Icertae Sedis)   Link here  
       

 Pimelodidae (Pim cats, Shovelnoses)

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A new species of Pimelodus La Cépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from rio Ribeira de Iguape basin, Brazil   Link here  
A new species of Pimelodus LaCépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from the rio São Francisco drainage, Brazil   Link here  
A new species of Propimelodus Lundberg & Parisi, 2002 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from rio Araguaia, Mato Grosso, Brazil   Link here  
A new species of the genus Pimelodus La Cépède, 1803 from the rio Iguaçu basin and a reappraisal of Pimelodus ortmanni Haseman, 1911 from the rio Paraná system, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Pimelodidae)   Link here  
A Synthesis of the Ecology and Conservation of Pseudoplatystoma Catfishes in the Neotropics   Link here  
Age validation and contrasted growth performances of Pseudoplatystoma punctifer (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) in two river systems of the Western Amazon   Link here  
Brachyplatystoma promagdalena, new species, a fossil goliath catfish (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from the Miocene of Colombia, South America   Link here  
Cytogenetic study of two species of the family Pimelodidae (Siluriformes) collected in lago Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil   Link here  
Cytogenetical analyses in three fish species of the genus Pimelodus (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from rio São Francisco: considerations about the karyotypical evolution in the genus   Link here  
Embryonic development and larval stages of Steindachneridion parahybae (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) - implications for the conservation and rearing of this endangered Neotropical species   Link here  
First record of Pimelodus britskii Garvello & Schibatta, 2007 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) in freshwaters of Argentina   Link here  
Iheringichthys labrosus (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) in the Piquiri River, Paraná, Brazil: population structure and some aspects of its reproductive biology   Link here  
Iheringichthys syi (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae), a new pimelodid species from upper Paraná basin, Brazil   Link here  
Induced spawning of the endangered Neotropical species Steindachneridion parahybae (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae)   Link here  
Life history trait variations and population dynamics of Calophysus macropterus (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) in two river systems of the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon.   link here  
Phylogenetic position and notes on the natural history of Pimelabditus moli Parisi & Lundberg, 2009 (Teleostei: Siluriformes), a recently discovered pimelodid catfish from the Maroni River basin   Link here  
Phylogenetics of the South American catfish family Pimelodidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes) using nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences   Link here  
Phylogeography of Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii (Siluriformes - Pimelodidae) in the Amazon Basin offers preliminary evidence for the first case of “homing” for an Amazonian migratory catfish   Link here  
Phylogeography of the Neotropical catfish Pimelodus albicans (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from río de la Plata basin, South America, and conservation remarks   Link here  
Pimelodus microstoma Steindachner, 1877, a valid species of pimelodid catfish (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from the upper rio Paraná drainage   Link here  
Pimelodus pintado (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae), a new species of catfish from affluent rivers of Laguna Merín, Uruguay, South America   Link here  
Pimelodus speciosus (Teleostei: Pimelodidae), a new catfish species from the rio Tocantins drainage, Brazil   Link here  
Reproduction of the catfish Iheringichthys labrosus (Lütken) (Pisces, Siluriformes) in Furnas reservoir, Minas Gerais, Brazil   Link here  
Revision of Cheirocerus (Pisces: Pimelodidae) from Tropical Freshwaters of South America   Link here  
Revision of genus Steindachneridion (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae)   Link here  
Revision of the catfish family Pimelodidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes) of Bolivia   Link here  
Some remarks on the South American Pimelodid Catfish usually known by the name of Phractocephalus hemilopterus (Bloch & Schneider) (Pimelodidae, Siluriformes)   Link here  
Species list and distribution of catfishes of the family Pimelodidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes) in Bolivia   Link here  
Systematic review of the neotropical shovelnose catfish genus Sorubim Cuvier (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae)   Link here  
Taxonomy of Pimelodus brevis Marini, Nichols & La Monte, 1933 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae), an uncertain species from the rio Paraná basin   Link here  
Taxonomy of the catfish genus Pseudoplatystoma Bleeker (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) with recognition of eight species   Link here  
The late Miocene Phractocephalus catfish (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from Urumaco, Venezuela: additional specimens and reinterpretation as a distinct species   Link here  
Three new Pimelodus species (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from the rio Tocantins drainage, Brazil   Link here  
Two new cis-Andean species of the South American catfish genus Megalonema allied to trans-Andean Megalonema xanthum, with description of a new subgenus (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae)   Link here  
       

 Plotosidae (Australian & New Guinea, Eel-tailed cats)

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A review of the Marine Catfish genus Paraplotosus (Plotosidae) with the description of a new species from Noth-Western Australia   Link here  
Plotonus nkunga, a new species of catfish from South Africa, with a redescription of Plotosus limbatus Valenciennes and key to the species of Plotosus (Siluriformes: Plotosidae)   Link here  
       

 Pseudopimelodidae (South American Bumblebee Catfishes)

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A new genus of Neotropical rheophilic catfishes, with four new species (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae)   Link here  
A new species of Microglanis (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the rio Uruguay drainage, Brazil   Link here  
A new species of Microglanis (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from upper rio Paraná basin, Brazil   Link here  
Cruciglanis, a new genus of Pseudopimelodid catfish (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes) with description of a new species from the Colombian Pacific coast   Link here  
Description and phylogenetic position of a new species of Rhyacoglanis (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the Jamanxim River basin (Rhyacoglanis beninei).   Link here  
Description of a new species of Microglanis(Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the Amazon basin, Amazonas State, Brazil   Link here  
Microglanis carlae, a new species of bumblebee catfish (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the río Paraguay basin in Paraguay   Link here  
Microglanis nigrolineatus, a new species from northwestern Argentina (Ostariophysi: Pseudopimelodidae)   Link here  
Microglanis pataxo, a new catfish from southern Bahia coastal rivers, northeastern Brazil (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae)   Link here  
New species of Batrochoglanis Gill (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the Capim River basin, State of Pará, Brazil (Batrochoglanis labrosus)   Link here  
New species of Rhyacoglanis (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the upper rio Tocantins basin (Rhyacoglanis varii)   Link here  
Phylogeny of the Neotropical Pacman catfish genus Lophiosilurus (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae)
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Rediscovery of Rhyacoglanis pulcher (Boulenger, 1887) (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae), a rare rheophilic bumblebee catfish from Ecuadorian Amazon   Link here  
The barcode trap—Description of a new species of Microglanis, with a review of the status of Microglanis cibelae (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae), (Microglanis lucenai)   Link here  
Two new species of Microglanis (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the upper-middle rio Araguaia basin, Central Brazil   Link here  
       

 Schilbeidae (Glass catfishes, Debawi cats)

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The reproductive and feeding biology of Schilbe intermedius Riippell in the Okavango Delta, Botswana   Link here  
       

 Scoloplacidae (Spiny dwarf catfishes)

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Scoloplax baskini: a new spiny dwarf catfish from rio Aripuanã, Amazonas, Brazil (Loricarioidei: Scoloplacidae)   Link here  
       

 Siluridae (Glass catfishes, Wels catfish)

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A review of the Ompok hypophthalmus group of silurid catfishes with the description of a new species from South-East Asia   Link here  
After eighty years of misidentification, a name for the glass catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae)   Link here  
Colossal Aggregations of Giant Alien Freshwater Fish as a Potential Biogeochemical Hotspot (Silurus glanis)   Link here  
Kryptopterus geminus, a new species of silurid catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from mainland Southeast Asia   Link here  
Ompok supernus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Borneo   Link here  
Redescription of Silurus burmanensis Thant 1967: a Silurus not a Pterocryptis (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Siluridae)   Link here  
Silurichthys exortivus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from eastern Borneo, Indonesia   Link here  
Two new species of blackwater catfishes (Siluriformes: Siluridae and Clariidae) from the Natuna Archipelago, Indonesia (Clarias rennyae & Silurichthys insulanus)   Link here  
Wallago Bleeker, 1851 and Wallagonia Myers, 1938 (Ostariophysi, Siluridae), Distinct Genera of Tropical Asian Catfishes, with Description of †Wallago maemohensis from the Miocene of Thailand   Link here  
       

 Sisoridae (Asian Hill Stream Catfishes)

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A new catfish, Hara koladynensis from northeastern India (Siluriformes: Erethistidae)   Link here  
A New Species of Euchiloglanis Regan, 1907 (Actinopterygii: Sisoridae) from Vietnam, Euchiloglanis nami. (Direct PDF)   Link here  
A new species of the genus Parachiloglanis (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India (Parachiloglanis paliziensis)   Link here  
A reviewof the Catfish genus Pseudexostoma (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) with description of a new species from the upper Salween (Nujiang) basin of China   Link here  
Catfishes of the Genus Glyptothorax (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) in the Mae Klong River Basin, Thailand, with Taxonomic Implications for Several Southeast Asian Species   Link here  
Descriptions of three new species of catfishes (Teleostei: Akysidae and Sisoridae) from Laos and Vietnam   Link here  
Discovery of a New Glyptosternine Catfish Creteuchiloglanis nuthemuensis (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) from the Duphlokho River, Arunachal Pradesh, India   Link here  
Erethistoides sicula, a new catfish (Teleostei: Erethistidae) from India   Link here  
Exostoma dhritiae, a new sisorid catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Brahmaputra River drainage, Arunachal Pradesh, India   Link here  
Fishes of the genus Glypthorax Blyth (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Manipur, India, with description of three new species   Link here  
Five new species of the sisorid catfish genus Glyptothorax from Iran (Teleostei: Sisoridae)   Link here  
Genera of the Asian Catfish Families Sisoridae and Erethistidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes)   Link here  
Glyptothorax chimtuipuiensis, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Koladyne basin, India   Link here  
Glyptothorax clavatus, a new species of sisorid catfish from Manipur, northeastern India (Teleostei: Sisoridae)   Link here  
Glyptothorax exodon, a new species of rehophilic catfish from Borneo (Teleostei: Sisoridae)   Link here  
Glyptothorax irroratus, a new species of rheophilic catfish from the Mekong River drainage (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes: Sisoridae)   Link here  
Glyptothorax rugimentum, a new species of catfish from Myanmar and Western Thailand (Teleostei: Sisoridae)   Link here  
Glyptothorax sardashtensis, a new species of torrent catfish from the upper Lesser Zab drainage in Iran (Teleostei: Sisoridae)   Link here  
Glyptothorax silviae, a New Species of Sisorid Catfish from Southwestern Iran   Link here  
Glyptothorax (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Middle East: An Integrated Molecular and Morphological Insight into Its Taxonomic Diversity   Link here  
Glyptothorax vatandousti, a new species of torrent catfish from the upper Karkheh drainage in Iran (Teleostei: Sisoridae)   Link here  
Monophyly and phylogenetic relationships of the catfish genus Glyptothorax (Teleostei: Sisoridae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences   Link here  
On the new catfish, Pseudolaguvia virgulata, from Mizoram, India   Link here  
Pseudolaguvia austrina, a new species of sisorid catfish (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes) from Peninsular India   Link here  
Pseudolaguvia permaris, a new catfish from the Eastern Ghats of India (Teleostei: Sisoridae)   Link here  
Pseudolaguvia virgulata, a new sisorid catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Mizoram, northeastern India   Link here  
Taxanomic revision of the Sisoridae (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes) Fishes of the Lower Yarlung Tsangpo River, With descriptions of three new species and one new record in China. (Glyptosternon maculatum; Glyptothorax cavia, G. cf. gracilis, G. medogensis Chen & He sp. nov., G. rara Chen & He sp. nov.; Pseudecheneis sirenica, Creteuchiloglanis kamengensis; Exostoma tibetanum, E. tenuicaudatum, and Parachiloglanis immaculata Chen & He sp. nov.)   Link here  
The identity of Pseudecheneis sulcata (M’Clelland, 1842), with descriptions of two new species of rheophilic catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Nepal and China      
Two new glyptosternine catfishes (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Vietnam and China   Link here  
Two new species of Glyptothorax from the Koladyne basin, Mizoram, India (Teleostei: Sisoridae)   Link here  
Two new species of Pseudolaguvia, sisorid catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from northeastern India   Link here  
Two new species of the Glyptosternine catfish genus Euchiloglanis (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from southwest China with redescriptions of E. davidi and E. kishinouyei   Link here  
       

 Trichomycteridae (Parasitic Catfishes, Candiru)

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A natural triploid in Trichomycterus davisi (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae): mitotic and meiotic characterization by chromosome banding and synaptonemal complex analyses   Link here  
A new catfish species of the genus Silvinichthys (Teleostei: Trichomycteridae) from Leoncito National Park, Argentina   Link here  
A new genus and species of miniature tridentine catfish from the Amazon basin (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae), (Rhinotridens chromocaudatus)   Link here  
A new miniature species of Ammoglanis (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the Brazilian Amazon   Link here  
A new species of Cambeva (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from an area of high anthropogenic impacts in the headwaters of Rio Iguaçu, Southern Brazil (Cambeva piraquara)   Link here  
A new species of Glaphyropoma: the first subterranean copionodontine catfish and the first occurrence of opercular odontodes in the subfamily (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)   Link here  
A new species of the catfish genus Cambeva from the Paranapanema river drainage, southeastern Brazil (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)   Link here  
A new species of Ituglanis Costa & Bockmann, 1993 (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) endemic to the Tramandaí–Mampituba ecoregion, southern Brazil (Ituglanis boitata)   Link here  
A new species of the catfish genus Trichomycterus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the Paranaíba basin, Central Brazil   Link here  
A new species of Trichogenes from the rio Itapemirim drainage, southeastern Brazil, with comments on the monophyly of the genus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)   Link here  
A new species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from lagoa Feia drainage, southeastern Brazil   Link here  
A new Trichomycterus lacking pelvic fins and pelvic girdle with a very restricted range in Southern Brazil (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)   Link here  
An endangered new catfish species of the genus Cambeva (Cambeva gamabelardense n. sp.) (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) from the Rio Chapecó drainage, southern Brazil   Link here  
A Revised Diagnosis of the Blood-Feeding Candiru Genus Paravandellia (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae: Vandelliinae) with Descriptions of Three New Species (P. oscarleoni, P. brooksi, and P. luna)   Link here  
Candirú: Amazonian parasitic catfish   Link here  
Color pattern variation in Trichomycterus iheringi (Eigenmann, 1917) (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from rio Itatinga and rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil   Link here  
Cytogenetics of Trichomycterus brasiliensis (Siluriformes:Trichomycteridae) from the Upper São Francisco River Basin (MG)   Link here  
Cytotaxonomic diagnosis of Trichomycterus diabolus (Teleostei: Trichomycteridae) with comments about its evolutionary relationships with co-generic species   Link here  
Description of a new species of miniature catfish of the genus Ammoglanis (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from rio Tapajós basin, Brazil (A. nheengatu)   Link here  
Description of a new species of the catfish genus Trichomycterus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the rio de Contas basin, northeastern Brazil   Link here  
Description of Silvinichthys pedernalensis n. sp. (Teleostei, Siluriformes) from the Andean Cordillera of southern South America   Link here  
Expanding the distribution of Trichomycterus barbouri (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) for Argentina   Link here  
Filling distribution gaps: Two new species of the catfish genus Cambeva from southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae), Cambeva barbosae and Cambeva botuvera   Link here  
Filling in a biogeographic gap: the first Trichomycteridae from the Parnaíba River basin (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae). Ituglanis crispim   Link here  
Ituglanis boticario, a new troglomorphic catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from Mambaí karst area, central Brazil   Link here  
Ituglanis cahyensis, a new catfish from Bahia, Brazil (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)   Link here  
Ituglanis macunaima, a new catfish from the rio Araguaia basin, Brazil (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)   Link here  
Ituglanis mambai, a new subterranean catfish from a karst area of Central Brazil, rio Tocantins basin (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)   Link here  
Living in the waterfalls: A new species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from Tabay stream, Misiones, Argentina   Link here  
Multigene analysis of the catfish genus Trichomycterus and description of a new South American trichomycterine genus (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae)   Link here  
New Species of Trichomycterus from Midelevation Localities of Northwestern Argentina (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)   Link here  
Perils of Underestimating Species Diversity: Revisiting Systematics of Psammocambeva Catfishes (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the Rio Paraíba do Sul Basin, South-Eastern Brazil (Trichomycterus saquarema and Trichomycterus altipombensis).   Link here  
Phylogenetic relationships of a new catfish of the genus Trichomycterus (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) from the Brazilian Cerrado, and the role of Cenozoic events in the diversification of mountain catfishes (Trichomycterus araxa)   Link here  
Seven new species of the catfish genus Trichomycterus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from Southeastern Brazil and redescription of T. brasiliensis   Link here  
The contribution of local people to species conservation: the case of the catfish Trichogenes claviger in south-east Brazil   Link here  
The type specimens of Trichomycterus alternatus (Eigenmann, 1917) and Trichomycterus zonatus (Eigenmann, 1918), with elements for future revisionary work (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)   Link here  
Top mountain areas of subtropical southern Brazil sheltering four new small-ranged catfishes (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae): relationships and taxonomy   Link here  
Trichomycterus dali: a new highly troglomorphic catfish (Silurifomes: Trichomycteridae) from Serra da Bodoquena, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Central Brazil   Link here  
Trichomycterus maracaya, a new catfish from the upper rio Paraná, southeastern Brazil (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae), with notes on the T. brasiliensis species-complex   Link here  
Trichomycterus uisae: a new species of hypogean catfish (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the northeastern Andean Cordillera of Colombia   Link here  
Two new remarkable and endangered catfish species of the genus Cambeva (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) from southern Brazil, C. alphabelardense & C. betabelardense   Link here  
Two new species of the catfish genus Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the rio Ribeira de Iguape Basin, Southeastern Brazil   Link here  
Uncertainties and risks in delimiting species of Cambeva (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) with single-locus methods and geographically restricted data   Link here  
Vampire catfishes seek the aorta not the jugular: candirus of the genus Vandellia (Trichomycteridae) feed on major gill arteries of host fishes   Link here  
       

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