After Nelson, 1994, with Recent species from Froese & Pauly, 2001 [“The Fishbase”]
<==o Cetopsidae sensu Nelson, 1994 (valasmonnit; Whalelike catfishes) [N: 12 species] [FB: 6/19] |-- Bathycetopsis oliveirai Lundberg & Rapp-Py-Daniel, 1994 |-- Cetopsis coecutiens (Lichtenstein, 1819) |--o Denticetopsis [2] | |-- D. royeroi Ferraris, 1996 | `-- D. sauli Ferraris, 1996 |-- Hemicetopsis candiru (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) |-- Paracetopsis bleekeri Bleeker, 1862 `--o Pseudocetopsis [13] |-- P. amphiloxa (Eigenmann, 1914) |-- P. baudoensis Dahl, 1960 |-- P. gobioides (Kner, 1858) |-- P. jurubidae Fowler, 1944 |-- P. macilenta (Eigenmann, 1912) |-- P. macroteronema (Boulenger, 1898) |-- P. minuta (Eigenmann, 1912) |-- P. morenoi (Fernández-Yépez, 1972) |-- P. motatanensis Schultz, 1944 |-- P. orinoco Schultz, 1944 |-- P. othonops (Eigenmann, 1912) |-- P. plumbea (Steindachner, 1882) `-- P. praecox Ferraris & Brown, 1991
Note:
Nelson (1994) gives count of species in this family as 12. Froese & Pauly (“The Fishbase”; 2001) maintains that this family contains 23 species, but they include genus Helogenes within the family, which has elsewhere given a monotypic family of Helogeneidae (Nelson, 1994).
Reference(s):
- Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds), 2001: FishBase.
–iNet: www.fishbase.org - Lahti, S., Malmström, K. K., Koli, L., Leikola, A., Syrjämäki, J. & Lahti, J., 1980: Zoo, Suuri Eläinkirja 5: Kalat, sammakkoeläimet, matelijat.
–Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö, Porvoo-Helsinki-Juva, 1980.
Original work [in French]: Beauté Du Monde Animal: IX Reptiles/Amphibiens & X Poissons.
–Rizzoli Editore, Milano, 1968 - Nelson, J. S., 1994: Fishes of the world.
–John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1994, xx-600