Austroglanididae

<i>Austroglanis</i>

Austroglanis

Genus of fishes

Austroglanis is the only genus in the catfish family Austroglanididae. This family was split off from the Bagridae catfish family.[1] All three species of catfishes in the family Austroglanididae are endemic to southern Africa (South Africa and Namibia), and two species are threatened.[2]

Quick Facts Austroglanis, Scientific classification ...

These fish have three pairs of barbels (they lack nasal barbels). They have strong dorsal and pectoral fin spines. The adipose fin is small.[1]

Species

There are currently three described species in this genus:[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Nelson, Joseph, S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25031-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. [2]
    Bruton, Michael N. (1996). "Threatened fishes of the world: Austroglanis barnardi (Skelton, 1981) (Austroglanididae)". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 45 (4): 382. doi:10.1007/BF00002530.
  3. [3]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Austroglanis in FishBase. December 2011 version.


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