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Taxon: Family Siluridae Rafinesque, 1815 - sheatfishes (fish)

Entity:

Authorship

SN2000 author citation	:			(C.S. Rafinesque, 1815)
Unavailable original name & rank	:			Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 35 ("Ordine. I Siluridi."). [family, nom. vernac.]. ≡
Original name	:			Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 89 ("S. F. Siluridia."). ≡
Subsequent rank	:
Source for the authorship	:			van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 50 ("Rafinesque 1815").

Types

Type

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Silurus (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021: 20 May 2025; [<4 Jun 2025]. [inferred]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name	:	meervallen	Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
	:	gewone meervallen

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name	:	sheatfishes	Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 218; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
	:	sheatfishes	Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2460.

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