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Animalia +
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Chordata +
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Actinopterygii +
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Siluriformes
- Akysidae +
- Amblycipitidae +
- Amphiliidae +
- Anchariidae +
- Ariidae +
- Aspredinidae +
- Astroblepidae +
- Auchenipteridae +
- Austroglanididae +
- Bagridae +
- Callichthyidae +
- Cetopsidae +
- Chacidae +
- Clariidae +
- Claroteidae +
- Cranoglanididae +
- Diplomystidae +
- Doradidae +
- Erethistidae +
- Heptapteridae +
- Heteropneustidae +
- Ictaluridae +
- Lacantuniidae +
- Loricariidae +
- Malapteruridae +
- Mochokidae +
- Nematogenyidae +
- Olyridae +
- Pangasiidae +
- Pimelodidae +
- Plotosidae +
- Pseudopimelodidae +
- Schilbeidae +
- Scoloplacidae +
- Siluridae +
- Sisoridae +
- Trichomycteridae +
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Siluriformes
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Actinopterygii +
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Chordata +
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Archaea +
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Bacteria +
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Chromista +
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Fungi +
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Plantae +
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Protozoa +
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Viruses +
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Introduction
Source and Additional Information
Catfishes are a species rich and exceptionally diverse group of fishes ranking second or third among orders of vertebrates. The Catalog of Fishes (Eschmeyer, 1998 et seq.) database treats 2,855 species of catfishes as valid. About 1 in 4 valid species of freshwater fishes, 1 in 10 fishes, and 1 in 20 vertebrates, is a catfish.
"Siluriformes". Encyclopedia of Life, available from "http://www.eol.org/pages/5083". Accessed
18 Mar 2010.


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