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Monophyletic taxon: Order Siluriformes Bleeker, 1858 - catfishes (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  P. Bleeker, 1858, nom. emend.
Original name & rank:  Bleeker, P. 1858: [13] ("Ordo Siluri."). ≡
Subsequent spelling (diff. rank):  Hay, O.P. 1929. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. (No. 390) 1: 725 ("Suborder ..., new name."). ≡
Subsequent spelling: 
Incorrect (rank-group) authorship:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 35 ("Ordine. I Siluridi."). [family, nom. vernac.].

Attributes

Emendation of suffix/termination (: nom. emend.) Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 23 Jun 2024.

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Siluroidei (Suborder) Bleeker, 1858 Ref: R. Betancur-R et al., 2017: 17; 6 May 2025. [inferred]
Type: Silurus (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Variants

Alternative clade-based name: Siluriformes (Clade) Hay 1929 [Lundberg 2020] Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 66; 5 Jun 2024. [inferred]
Different rank: Siluroidei (Suborder) Bleeker, 1858 Ref: R.A. Fritzsche, 1982: 877.
Former rank: Siluroidea (Suborder) Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 162. [indirect]

Synonyms

Synonymous name: Nematognathi (Order) Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 606.
Synonymous name: Nematognathi (Order) Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 207.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: meervalachtigen Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: catfishes Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 207.
: catfishes Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2460.
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