Genus of fishes
Silurus genus of catfishes native to Europe and Asia.
Species
There are currently 20 recognized species in this genus:[ 1]
Silurus aristotelis Garman , 1890Silurus asotus Linnaeus , 1758 Silurus biwaensis Tomoda , 1961Lake Biwa giant catfish)Silurus burmanensis Thant , 1967[ 2] Silurus caobangensis V. H. Nguyễn , T. H. N. Vũ & T. D. P. Nguyễn , 2015[ 3] Silurus chantrei Sauvage , 1882Silurus dakrongensis V. H. Nguyễn , T. H. N. Vũ & T. D. P. Nguyễn , 2015[ 3] Silurus duanensis X. Y. Hu , J. H. Lan & C. G. Zhang , 2004Silurus glanis Linnaeus , 1758 Silurus grahami Regan , 1907Silurus langsonensis V. H. Nguyễn , T. H. N. Vũ & T. D. P. Nguyễn , 2015[ 3] Silurus lanzhouensis H. L. Chen , 1977Silurus lithophilus Tomoda , 1961Silurus longibarbatus Li, J , Li, X. H. , Zhang, G , He, Y. J. , 2019Silurus mento Regan , 1904Silurus meridionalis H. L. Chen , 1977Silurus microdorsalis (Mori , 1936) (slender catfish)Silurus soldatovi Nikolskii & Soin , 1948Silurus tomodai Y. Hibino & Tabata , 2018[ 4] Silurus triostegus Heckel , 1843Fossil species
References
^ "World Register of Marine Species" . Retrieved 2021-10-20 .^ Britz R., Win T. (2010). "Redescription of Silurus burmanensis Thant 1967: a Silurus not a Pterocryptis (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Siluridae)". Zootaxa . 2647 : 61– 68. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.2647.1.5 . ^ a b c Nguyễn Văn Hảo; Vũ Thị Hồng Nguyên; Nguyễn Thị Diệu Phương (2015). "Three Fish Species of The Genus Silurus Linnaeus, 1758, (Siluridae, Siluriformes) Newly Discovered in Northern Vietnam" (PDF) . Journal of Science and Development . 13 (1): 65– 74. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2015-05-07 . ^ Hibino, Yusuke; Tabata, Ryoichi (2018-08-15). "Description of a new catfish, Silurus tomodai (Siluriformes: Siluridae) from central Japan" Zootaxa . 4459 (3): 507– 524. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.5 . ISSN 1175-5334 . ^ Gaudant, Jean (11 April 2015). "Re-examination of the upper Miocene freshwater fish fauna from Höwenegg (Hegau, Germany)" Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 134 (1): 117– 127. doi :10.1007/s13358-015-0073-2 . ISSN 1664-2376 . Retrieved 21 March 2025 – via Springer Open. ^ Kovalchuk, Oleksandr; Ferraris, Carl J. (2016). "Late Cenozoic catfishes of Southeastern Europe with inference to their taxonomy and palaeogeography" . Palaeontologia Electronica . 19 (3). doi :10.26879/616
