Catfishes, a Highly Diversified Group Volume 2: Evolution and Phylogeny

Foreword

Topics and Contributors

Acknowledgements

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION.

1. An Introduction to Catfish Evolution and Phylogeny

Roberto E. Reis and Gloria Arriata

SECTION 2: FOSSIL RECORD.

2. Diversification and Evolution of European Fossil Catfishes

Oleksandr Kovalchuk

3. The African Fossil Catfishes

Olga Otero

4. Siluriformes From the Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene of Bolivia

Olga Otero, Lionel Cavin and Ricardo Céspedes

5. Siluriforms and the South American Fossil Record: Their Significance and the Origin and Evolutionary Radiation of the Group

Gloria Arriata

SECTION 3: PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AND CLASSIFICATION.

6. Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolution of the Major Groups of Siluriformes

Mário de Pinna, Luiz Peixoto, Victor Tagliacollo and Marcelo Britto

7. The Trichomycteridae: An Overview of the Systematics and Classification of the Family

Vinícius Reis, Guillaume Lecointre and Mário de Pinna

8. Phylogeny and Classification of the Family Callichthyidae (Armored Catfishes)

Marcelo R. Britto, Luiz F. C. Tencatt, Manuela Dopazo, Sergio A. dos Santos, Karina C. F. Ferreira (in memoriam) and Roberto E. Reis

9.Habitats and History of Scoloplacid Catfishes (Loricarioidea)

Marcelo Rocha and Jonathan Baskin

10. Phylogeny and Classification of the Family Loricariidae

Jonathan W. Armbruster, Roberto E. Reis and Alejandro Londoño-Burbano

11. Phylogeny and Classification of Pimelodidae

Marcelo Rocha and Michael Littmann

12. Diversity and Phylogeny of Pseudopimelodidae: The Neotropical Bumblebee Catfishes

Oscar Akio Shibatta and Lenice Souza-Shibatta

13. Phylogeny and Classification of Heptapteridae (Pimelodoidea).

Veronica Slobodian and Flávio Alicino Bockmann

14. The State of the Art of the Family Doradidae.

Mariangeles Arce H. and José Luis O. Birindelli

15. Biogeography and Evolution of Auchenipteridae: A Molecular and Morphological Perspective.

Bárbara B. Calegari, Tiago P. Carvalho and Roberto E. Reis

16. Phylogeny and Classification of the Loach Catfishes, Amphiliidae.

Paul H. Skelton and Lawrence M. Page

17. New Insights into the Southern African Sand-Catlets Genus Zaireichthys (Amphiliidae: Leptoglanidinae).

Pedro H. N. Bragança, Elisabeth Henschel, Roger Bills, Denis Tweddle, Wilbert T. Kadye and Albert Chakona

18. Phylogeny and Classification of the Sisoridae.

Liandong Yang, Chuanjiang Zhou, Xiuhui Ma, Jingliang Kang and Shunping He

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.