Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei

Siluriformes

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Ariidae Bleeker, 1858
Callichthyidae Bonaparte, 1835
Ictaluridae Gill, 1861
Mochokidae Regan, 1912
Plotosidae Bleeker, 1858
Siluridae Rafinesque, 1815

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: meervalachtigen
 Japanese: ナマズ目 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.
 Swedish: malartade fiskar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Ukrainian: Сомоподібні

Literature

basis of record

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.

taxonomy source

Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230.

Genbank

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Siluriformes. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154157

Dr. Jorg Freyhof. Siluriformes. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/cb989424-2b7d-4abb-9c94-a6fdb5a5ac4b

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

no data

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Last modified

2021-06-30 by Dr. Jorg Freyhof & by Nicolas Bailly

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