Mochokus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Siluriformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Siluriformes

Familia: Mochokidae
Subfamilia: Mochokinae
Genus: Mochokus
Species: M. brevis – †M. gigas – M. niloticus

Name

• Mochokus Joannis, 1835
  • Gender: masculine
  • Type species: Mochokus niloticus Joannis, 1835
    • Type by monotypy

References

• Ferraris, C.J., Jr. 2007: Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa, 1418: 1–628. PDF
• Joannis, L. de 1835: Observations sur les poissons du Nil, et description de plusieurs espèces nouvelles. [Also includes: Tableau des poissons du Nil.]. Magasin de Zoologie, 1835 (5 anneé): 53 pp. numbered as Classe IV, Pls. 1-15.
• Pinton, A., Otero, O., Likius, A., Mackaye, H.T., Vignaud, P., & Brunet, M. 2011: Giants in a minute catfish genus: first description of fossil Mochokus (Siluriformes, Mochokidae) in the Late Miocene of Chad, including M. gigas, sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 31 (1): 22–31. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2011.539648
• Vigliotta, T.R. 2008. A phylogenetic study of the African catfish family Mochokidae (Osteichthyes, Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), with a key to genera. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 157: 73–136. DOI: 10.1635/0097-3157(2008)157[73:APSOTA]2.0.CO;2, JSTOR Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Catfish