Catfishes, a Highly Diversified Group Volume 1: Their Outstanding Biology

Foreword

Topics and Contributors

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

An Introduction to Catfishes: A Tale of Evolutionary Success

Gloria Arratia and Roberto E. Reis

ANATOMY OF CATFISHES

An Overview of Some of the Main Features of the External Anatomy of Catfishes

Pedro P. Rizzato and Malu A. Almeida

An Overview of the Anatomy of Catfishes and its Diversity

Timo Moritz

Siluriform Weberian Apparatus: Modularity and Integration

Kevin K. Duclos and Terry C. Grande

Diversity and Evolution of the Pelvic Girdle and Fin in Catfishes

Timo Moritz, Ann-Katrin Koch and Philipp Thieme

The Caudal Fin Musculature of Catfishes and the Homology of the Posterior Myomeres

Nicolás Cumplido

Siluriform Venom Systems

Jacob Egge

X-Ray Computed Tomography and the Study of Catfish Morphology

Mariangeles Arce H. and Adam P. Summers

BIOLOGY OF CATFISHES

Miniature Catfishes: Diversity, Ecology and Evolution

Elisabeth Henschel, Axel M. Katz and Pedro H. N. Bragança

Parasitic Catfishes

Carlos DoNascimiento and Mário de Pinna

Whiskers Ahead — Catfish Migrations in Freshwater and Marine Environments

Jansen Zuanon and Gislene Torrente-Vilara

Diversity and Life Cycles of Subterranean Catfishes

Eleonora Trajano and Sandro Secutti

Sound Production and Communication in Catfishes

Ingrid M. Kaatz, Phillip S. Lobel and Aaron N. Rice

Insights Into Catfish Respiratory Mechanisms

Giacomo Zaccone, José Manuel Icardo and Alessio Alesci

Index

Biography

Gloria Arratia is a leading scientist on the origin, diversification and systematics of the largest fish group, Teleostei. She retired from Humboldt University, Berlin and is currently associated with the University of Kansas. She has been awarded numerous professional prizes, with the first in 1994 (Humboldt Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) and most recently in 2022 (Joseph S. Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award in Ichthyology, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists). A book, Origin and Phylogenetic Interrelationships of Teleosts Honoring Gloria Arratia by J. S. Nelson, H.-P. Schultze and M. V. H. Wilson (eds.), was published in 2010. She is Editor of the Mesozoic Fishes books series and Associate Editor of several journals. She is editor of nine books, including Catfishes (2003), and author of many publications concerning high-level teleostean ranks, 13 new families, 51 new genera, and 69 new species. She is a member of the Academia of Sciences of Chile.

Roberto E. Reis is Full Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and a leading scientist on South American ichthyology. He is the Regional Chair of the Freshwater Fish Specialist Group of IUCN for South America and a founding member and twice Past-President of the Brazilian Society of Ichthyology. He is Associate Editor of Ichthyology & Herpetology and of other journals and he has edited three other highly cited books. Dr. Reis has extensive experience in the area of ichthyology, mainly the discovery, documentation and description of biodiversity and the study of phylogenetic relationships using phenotypic and molecular evidence. He has discovered and described with coauthors and students 12 new genera and 141 new species of fishes. In 2021 he received the Robert H. Gibbs Award for the outstanding body of published work in systematic ichthyology from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.