2003 Publications on Catfishes (Siluriformes)

Akama, A., and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. 2003. Entomocorus melaphareus, a new species of auchenipterid catfish (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes) from the lower and middle reaches of the Amazon River. Neotropical Ichthyology 1:77–82.

Armbruster, J. W. 2003. Peckoltia sabaji, a new species from the Guyana Shield (Siluriformes: Loricariidae). Zootaxa 344:1–12.

Armbruster, J. W. 2003. The species of the Hypostomus cochliodon group (Siluriformes: Loricariidae). Zootaxa 249:1–60.

Arratia, G., B. G. Kapoor, M. Chardon, and R. Diogo. (eds.). 2003. Catfishes. Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA.

Axenrot, T. E., and S. O. Kullander. 2003. Corydoras diphyes (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) and Otocinclus mimulus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), two new species of catfishes from Paraguay, a case of mimetic association. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 14:249–272.

Barbosa, M. A., and W. J. E. M. Costa. 2003. Trichomycterus potschi (Siluriformes: Loricarioidei): a new trichomycterid catfish from coastal streams of southeastern Brazil. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 14:281–288.

Barbosa, M. A., and W. J. E. M. Costa. 2003. Validade, relações filogenéticas e redescrição de Eremophilus candidus Ribeiro, 1949 (Teleostei, Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae). Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 61:179–188.

Betancur-R., R. 2003. Filogenia de los Bagres Marinos (Siluriformes: Ariidae) del Nuevo Mundo. Unpubl. M.Sc.Thesis. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.

Bockmann, F. A., and G. M. Guazzelli. 2003. Heptapteridae, p. 406–431. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Bockmann, F. A., and A. C. Ribeiro. 2003. Description of a new suckermouth armoured catfish of the genus Pareiorhina (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), from southeastern Brazil. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 14:231–242.

Britski, H. A., and J. C. Garavello. 2003. Hisonotus insperatus: new species, from the upper Rio Paraná basin (Pisces: Ostariophysi: Loricariidae). Copeia 2003:588–593.

Britto, M. R. 2003. Phylogeny of the subfamily Cordoradinae Hoedeman, 1952 (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae), with a definition of its genera. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 153:119–154.

Britto, M. R., and F. C. T. Lima. 2003. Corydoras tukano, a new species of corydoradine catfish from the rio Tiquié, upper rio Negro basin, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Callichthyidae). Neotropical Ichthyology 1:83–91.

Britz, R., and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. 2003. A new species of the Asian catfish genus Pseudolaguvia from Myanmar (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Erethistidae). Zootaxa 388:1–8.

Bruwer, E. E., and F. H. van der Bank. 2003. A morphological key for the identification of southern African Synodontis species Cuvier, 1816 (Teleostei: Mochokidae). African Journal of Aquatic Science 28:183–186.

Cardoso, A. R., and P. H. F. Lucinda. 2003. Three new species of Hemiancistrus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Tocantins basin with comments on the genus. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 14:73–84.

de Pinna, M. C. C. 2003. Nematogenyidae, p. 268–269. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

de Pinna, M. C. C., and P. Keith. 2003. A new species of the catfish genus Ituglanis from French Guyana (Osteichthyes; Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116:873–882.

de Pinna, M. C. C., and W. Wosiacki. 2003. Trichomycteridae, p. 270–290. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Ding, R.-H. 2003. [Pareuchiloglanis in western China and neighbouring countries]. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 22:27–28. [In Chinese.]

Diogo, R. 2003. Anatomy, phylogeny, and taxonomy of Amphiliidae., p. 401–438. In: Catfishes.  G. Arratia, B. G. Kapoor, M. Chardon, and R. Diogo (eds.), Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA.

Diogo, R. 2003. Higher-level phylogeny of Siluriformes — an overview., p. 353–384. In: Catfishes.  G. Arratia, B. G. Kapoor, M. Chardon, and R. Diogo (eds.), Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA.

Diogo, R., M. Chardon, and P. Vandewalle. 2003. Osteology and myology of the cephalic region and pectoral girdle of Centromochlus heckelii, comparison with other auchenipterids, and comments on the synapomorphies and phylogenetic relationships of the Auchenipteridae (Teleostei: Siluriformes). Animal Biology 53:397–416.

Diogo, R., M. Chardon, and P. Vandewalle. 2003. Osteology and myology of the cephalic region and pectoral girdle of Erethistes pusillus, comparison with other erethistids, and comments on the synapomorphies and phylogenetic relationships of the Erethistidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes). Journal of Fish Biology 63:1160–1176.

Diogo, R., M. Chardon, and P. Vandewalle. 2003. Osteology and myology of the cephalic region and pectoral girdle of Heteropneustes fossilis (Teleostei: Siluriformes), with comments on the phylogenetic relationships between Heteropneustes and the clariid catfishes. Animal Biology 53:379–396.

Fernández, L. A., and S. A. Schaefer. 2003. Trichomycterus yuska, a new species from high elevations of Argentina (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 14:353–360.

Ferraris, C. J., Jr. 2003. Auchenipteridae, p. 470–482. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Ferraris, C. J., Jr. 2003. Diplomystidae, p. 255–256. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Ferraris, C. J., Jr. 2003. Loricariinae, p. 330–350. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Ferraris, C. J., Jr. 2003. Neoplecostominae, p. 319–320. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Fisch-Muller, S. 2003. Ancistrinae, p. 373–400. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Friel, J. P. 2003. Aspredinidae., p. 261–267. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Garavello, J. C., and H. A. Britski. 2003. Parotocinclus planicauda, a new species of the subfamily Hypoptopomatinae from southeastern Brazil (Ostariophysi: Loricariidae). Brazilian Journal of Biology 63:253–260.

Gayet, M., and F. J. Meunier. 2003. Palaeontology and palaeobiogeography of catfishes., p. 491–522. In: Catfishes.  G. Arratia, B. G. Kapoor, M. Chardon, and R. Diogo (eds.), Science Publishers, Inc., Enfield, NH, USA.

Geerinckx, T., D. Adriaens, G. G. Teugels, and W. Verraes. 2003. Taxonomic evaluation and redescription of Anaspidoglanis akiri (Risch, 1987) (Siluriformes: Claroteidae). Cybium (3^e série) 27:17–25.

Golubtsov, A. S., and K. F. Dzerjinskii. 2003. The African hillstream catfishes (Amphiliidae) of southwestern Ethiopia: the first report of the genus Phractura from the Nile Basin. Journal of Ichthyology 43:151–158.

Gustiano, R., G. G. Teugels, and L. Pouyaud. 2003. Revision of the Pangasius kunyit catfish complex, with description of two new species from South-east Asia (Siluriformes: Pangasiidae). Journal of Natural History 37:357–376.

Hardman, M., and L. M. Page. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships among bullhead catfishes of the genus Ameiurus (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae). Copeia 2003:20–33.

Jayaram, K. C., and S. Anuradha. 2003. A taxonomic revision of the fishes of the genus Mystus Scopoli (Family: Bagridae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper no. 207:1–136, pls. 1–5.

Lasso, C. A., and F. Provenzano. 2003. Dos nuevas especies de bagres del género Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) de la Gran Sabana, Escudo de las Guayanas, Venezuela. Revista de Biología Tropical 50:1139–1149.

Lin, Y.-H. 2003. [A new species of the genus Glyptothorax Blyth from Guangdong, China (Siluriformes, Sisoridae)]. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 28:159–162. [In Chinese, with English abstract]

Lundberg, J. G., and O. Aguilera. 2003. The late Miocene Phractocephalus catfish (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from Urumaco, Venezuela: additional specimens and reinterpretation as a distinct species. Neotropical Ichthyology 1:97–109.

Lundberg, J. G., and M. W. Littmann. 2003. Pimelodidae, p. 432–446. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Marceniuk, A. P. 2003. Relações Filogenéticas e Revisão dos Gêneros da Família Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes). . Unpubl. Ph. D. Dissertation. Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo.

Marceniuk, A. P., and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. 2003. Ariidae, p. 447–455. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Mirza, M. R. 2003. Checklist of freshwater fishes of Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, Supplement Series no. 3:1–30.

Montoya-Burgos, J.-I. 2003. Historical biogeography of the catfish genus Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), with implications on the diversification of Neotropical ichthyofauna. Molecular Ecology 12:1855–1867.

Murray, A. M., and L. A. Budney. 2003. A new species of catfish (Claroteidae, Chrysichthys) from an Eocene crater lake in East Africa. Canadian Journal of Earth Science 40:983–993.

Ng, H. H. 2003. Arius verrucosus, a new species of freshwater ariid catfish (Teleostei: Ariidae) from the Mekong River. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan no. 734:1–14.

Ng, H. H. 2003. Clarias insolitus, a new species of clariid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from southern Borneo. Zootaxa 284:1–8.

Ng, H. H. 2003. Clarias nigricans, a new species of clariid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from eastern Borneo. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51:393–398.

Ng, H. H. 2003. Kryptopterus geminus, a new species of silurid catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from mainland Southeast Asia. Zootaxa 305:1–11.

Ng, H. H. 2003. Kryptopterus paraschilbeides, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from mainland Southeast Asia. The Natural History Journal of the Chulalongkorn University 3:1–8.

Ng, H. H. 2003. Mystus impluviatus: a new species of bagrid catfish (Teleostei: Bagridae) from eastern Borneo. Copeia 2003:373–378.

Ng, H. H. 2003. Ompok pinnatus, a new species of silurid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Siluridae) from mainland Southeast Asia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116:47–51.

Ng, H. H. 2003. Phylogeny and systematics of Bagridae, p. 439–464. In: Catfishes. Vol. 1.  G. Arratia, B. G. Kapoor, M. Chardon, and R. Diogo (eds.), Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA.

Ng, H. H. 2003. A review of the Ompok hypophthalmus group of silurid catfishes with the description of a new species from South-east Asia. Journal of Fish Biology 62:1296–1311.

Ng, H. H. 2003. A revision of the south Asian sisorid catfish genus Sisor (Teleostei: Siluriformes). Journal of Natural History 37:2871–2883.

Ng, H. H., and J. Freyhof. 2003. Akysis clavulus, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Akysidae) from central Vietnam. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 14:311–316.

Ng, H. H., and M. Kottelat. 2003. Parakysis notialis, a new species of akysid catfish from Borneo (Siluriformes: Akysidae). Ichthyological Research 50:48–51.

Ng, H. H., and J. S. Sparks. 2003. The ariid catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Ariidae) of Madagascar, with the description of two new species. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan no. 735:1–21.

Parisi, B. M. 2003. Contribution à l'Étude de la Taxonomie du Groupe de Poissons-chats Néotropicaux Calophysus-Pimelodus (Pimelodidae, Siluriformes) et Hypothèses Phylogénétiques. Unpubl. Doctoral dissertation. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

Pereira, E. H. L., and O. T. Oyakawa. 2003. Isbrueckerichthys epakmos, a new species of loricariid catfish from the rio Ribeira de Iguape basin, Brazil (Teleostei, Siluriformes). Neotropical Ichthyology 1:3–9.

Pereira, E. H. L., R. E. Reis, P. F. M. Souza, and H. Lazzarotto. 2003. A new species of the loricariid catfish genus Hemipsilichthys from southern Rio de Janeiro coastal rivers, southeastern Brazil (Teleostei: Siluriformes). Zootaxa 285:1–10.

Provenzano R., F., S. A. Schaefer, J. N. Baskin, and R. Royero-Leon. 2003. New, possibly extinct lithogenine loricariid (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from northern Venezuela. Copeia 2003:562–575.

Reis, R. E. 2003. Callichthyidae, p. 291–309. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Reis, R. E., S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.). 2003. Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Roberts, T. R. 2003. Systematics and osteology of Leptoglaninae, a new subfamily of the African catfish family Amphiliidae, with descriptions of three new genera and six new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 54:81–132.

Sabaj, M. H., and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. 2003. Doradidae, p. 456–469. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Schaefer, S. A. 2003. Astroblepidae, p. 312–317. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Schaefer, S. A. 2003. Hypoptopomatinae, p. 321–329. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Schaefer, S. A. 2003. Relationships of Lithogenes villosus Eigenmann, 1909 (Siluriformes, Loricariidae): Evidence from high-resolution computed microtomography. American Museum Novitates no. 3402:1–55.

Schaefer, S. A. 2003. Scoloplacidae, p. 310–311. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Seegers, L. 2003. Atopochilus vogti: Ein Afrika-Saugwels aus dem Wami-River, Tansania. Aquarium (Bornheim) no. 405:8–14.

Shibatta, O. A. 2003. Phylogeny and classification of “Pimelodidae”, p. 385–400. In: Catfishes.  G. Arratia, B. G. Kapoor, M. Chardon, and R. Diogo (eds.), Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA.

Shibatta, O. A. 2003. Pseudopimelodidae, p. 401–405. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Sudarto, G. G. Teugel, and L. Pouyaud. 2003. Description of two new Clarias species from Borneo (Siluriformes, Clariidae). Cybium (3^e série) 27 153–161.

Teugels, G. G. 2003. Clarias lamottei (Siluriformes: Clariidae), a natural intergeneric hybrid from West Africa. Cybium (3^e série) 27:11–15.

Teugels, G. G. 2003. State of the art of Recent siluriform systematics, p. 317–352. In: Catfishes.  G. Arratia, B. G. Kapoor, M. Chardon, and R. Diogo (eds.), Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA.

Teugels, G. G., and D. Adriens. 2003. Taxonomy and phylogeny of Clariidae: an overview, p. 465–487. In: Catfishes.  G. Arratia, B. G. Kapoor, M. Chardon, and R. Diogo (eds.), Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA.

Vari, R. P., and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. 2003. Cetopsidae, p. 257–260. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Vari, R. P., C. J. Ferraris, Jr., and P. Keith. 2003. A new Pseudocetopsis species (Siluriformes: Cetopsidae) from Suriname and French Guiana. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116:692–698.

Vidthayanon, C., and H. H. Ng. 2003. Acrochordonichthys gyrinus, a new species of akysid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from Thailand. Zootaxa 183:1–7.

Weber, A., G. Allegrucci, and V. Sbordoni. 2003. Rhamdia laluchensis, a new species of troglobitic catfish (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from Chiapas, Mexico. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 14:273–280.

Weber, C. 2003. Hypostominae, p. 351–372. In: Check list of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America.  R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.), Edipucrs, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Zarske, A. 2003. Wiederbeschreibung von Rhamdia marthae (Sands & Black, 1985) (Teleostei, Siluriformes, Pimelodidae). Redescription of Rhamdia marthae (Sands & Black, 1985) (Teleostei, Siluriformes, Pimelodidae). Zoologische Abhandlungen; Staatliches Museums für Tierkunde in Dresden 53:47–55.