Superregnum : Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Siluriformes
Familia: Amphiliidae
Subfamilia: Amphiliinae
Genus: Amphilius
Species: A. angustifrons – A. atesuensis – A. baudoni – A. brevidorsalis – A. brevis – A. crassus – A. cryptobullatus – A. frieli – A. grammatophorus – A. grandis – A. hargeri – A. jacksoni – A. jacksonii – A. kakrimensis – A. kivuensis – A. kreffti – A. lamani – A. lampei – A. laticaudatus – A. lentiginosus – A. leroyi – A. longirostris – A. lujani – A. maesi – A. maesii – A. natalensis – A. nigricaudatus – A. notatus – A. opisthophthalmus – A. oxyrhinus – A. pagei – A. pedunculus – A. pictus – A. platychir – A. pulcher – A. rheophilus – A. ruziziensis – A. transvaaliensis – A. uranoscopus – A. zairensis
Name
Amphilius Günther, 1864
Type species: Pimelodus platychir Günther, 1864
Synonyms
Anoplopterus Pfeffer, 1889
Chimarrhoglanis Vaillant, 1897
References
Günther, A. 1864. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum 5: i–xxii + 1–455. BHLReference page.
Chakona, A., Kadye, W.T., Bere, T., Mazungula, D.N. & Vreven, E. 2018. Evidence of hidden diversity and taxonomic conflicts in five stream fishes from the Eastern Zimbabwe Highlands freshwater ecoregion. ZooKeys 768: 69–95. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.768.21944 Reference page.
Thomson, A.W., Page, L.M. & Hilber, S.A. 2015: Revision of the Amphilius jacksonii complex (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae), with the descriptions of five new species. Zootaxa 3986(1): 61–87. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.1.3. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Thomson, A.W. & Swartz, E.R. 2018. A new species catfish, Amphilius pagei (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae) from Angola. Zootaxa 4420(2): 292–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.2.10 Paywall Reference page.
Links
Amphilius and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Amphilius species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 08/2021.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Amphilius is a genus of catfishes of the family Amphiliidae.[1]
Amphilius catfish have fairly lengthened bodies, with short, depressed, and broad heads. They have three pairs of fringed barbels. The eyes, small and located dorsally, are very distant from each other, and are without a free edge. The caudal fin is forked or emarginated.[2] Unlike species of Paramphilius, the snout is greater than half of the snout length, the adipose fin is not confluent with the caudal fin in adult specimens, and the anal fin has seven or fewer branched rays.[2]
Species
There are currently 34 recognized species in this genus:
Amphilius atesuensis Boulenger, 1904
Amphilius athiensis A. W. Thomson & Page, 2010
Amphilius brevis Boulenger, 1902
Amphilius caudosignatus P. H. Skelton, 2007
Amphilius chalei Seegers, 2008
Amphilius crassus A. W. Thomson & Hilber, 2015 [3]
Amphilius cryptobullatus P. H. Skelton, 1986
Amphilius dimonikensis P. H. Skelton, 2007
Amphilius frieli A. W. Thomson & Page, 2015 [3]
Amphilius grammatophorus Pellegrin, 1913 [3]
Amphilius grandis Boulenger, 1905
Amphilius jacksonii Boulenger, 1912 (Marbled mountain catfish)
Amphilius kakrimensis Teugels, P. H. Skelton & Lévêque, 1987
Amphilius kivuensis Pellegrin, 1933
Amphilius korupi P. H. Skelton, 2007
Amphilius krefftii Boulenger, 1911
Amphilius lamani Lönnberg & Rendahl (de), 1920
Amphilius lampei Pietschmann, 1913
Amphilius laticaudatus P. H. Skelton, 1984 (Broadtail mountain catfish)
Amphilius lentiginosus Trewavas, 1936
Amphilius longirostris (Boulenger, 1901)
Amphilius lujani A. W. Thomson & Page, 2015 [3]
Amphilius maesii Boulenger, 1919
Amphilius mamonekenensis P. H. Skelton, 2007
Amphilius natalensis Boulenger, 1917 (Natal mountain catfish)
Amphilius nigricaudatus Pellegrin, 1909
Amphilius opisthophthalmus Boulenger, 1919
Amphilius pedunculus A. W. Thomson & Page, 2015 [3]
Amphilius platychir (Günther, 1864) (Mountain barbel)
Amphilius pulcher Pellegrin, 1929
Amphilius rheophilus Daget, 1959
Amphilius ruziziensis A. W. Thomson & Page, 2015 [3]
Amphilius uranoscopus (Pfeffer, 1889) (Stargazer mountain catfish)
Amphilius zairensis P. H. Skelton, 1986
References
Ferraris, C.J.Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418.1.1.
Skelton, P.H. (1992). "Amphiliidae" (PDF). Faune des poissons d'eaux douces et saumâtres d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Vol. Tome 2. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique and O.R.S.T.O.M., Paris, France, 902. pp. 450–467.
Thomson A.W.; Page L.M.; Hilber S.A. (2015). "Revision of the Amphilius jacksonii complex (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae), with the descriptions of five new species". Zootaxa. 3986 (1): 61–87. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3986.1.3. PMID 26250171.
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