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Claroteidae

Claroteidae
Was previously a sub-family of the Bagridae, this group of catfishes has now been elevated to its own family status. All from the African continent.

Sizes vary in this family from the larger Chrysichthys to the smaller Lophiobagrus genera of Lake Tanganika.

SYNONYMS
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Arius acutivelis

Bagrus auratus

Bagrus capito

Bagrus laticeps

Bagrus nigrita

Bathybagrus grandis

Bathybagrus sianenna

Chrysobagrus brevibarbis

Chrysichthys acutirostris

Chrysichthys auratus auratus

Chrysichthys auratus longifilis

Chrysichthys auratus tilhoi

Chrysichthys börressoni

Chrysichthys büttkoferi

Chrysichthys camaronensis

Chrysichthys coriscanus

Chrysichthys cranchii

Chrysichthys cyclurus

Chrysichthys filamentosus

Chrysichthys lagoensis

Chrysichthys longifelis

Chrysichthys longifilis

Chrysichthys longipinnis

Chrysichthys macropogon

Chrysichthys macrops

Chrysichthys macrops

Chrysichthys magnus

Chrysichthys myriodon

Chrysichthy nigrita

Chrysichthys ogowensis

Chrysichthys persimilis

Chrysichthys pictus

Chrysichthy pitmani

Chysichthys auratus

Clarotes heuglinii

Clarotes macrocephalus

Gephyroglanis gigas

Gephyroglanis longipinnis

Gephyroglanis ogooensis

Gephyroglanis tilhoi

Lophiobagrus lestradei

Melanodactylus nigrodigitatus

Octonematichthys nigrita

Phyllonemus typus

Pimelodus auratus

Pimelodus cranchii

Pimelodus laticeps

Pimelodus nigrodigitatus

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