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Family
Mochokidae
Regan, 1912
- squeakers and upside-down catfishes
(fish)
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Entity:
Siluroidei (Suborder)
..Ailiidae (Family) - Asian schilbeids
..Amphiliidae (Family) - loach catfishes
..Arioidea (Superfamily)
..Auchenoglanididae (Family) - flatnose catfishes
..Austroglanididae (Family) - rock catlets
..Bagridae (Family) - bagrid catfishes
..Chacidae (Family) - squarehead catfishes
..Clarioidea (Superfamily)
..Claroteidae (Family) - grunter catfishes
..Doradoidea (Superfamily)
..Horabagridae (Family) - imperial catfishes
..Ictaluroidea (Superfamily)
..Kryptoglanidae (Family) - Indian cave catfishes
..Lacantuniidae (Family) - Lacantún catfishes
..Malapteruridae (Family) - electric catfishes
..Pangasiidae (Family) - pangasid catfishes
..Pimelodoidea (Superfamily)
..Plotosidae (Family) - eeltail catfishes
..Ritidae (Family) - velvet catfishes
..Schilbeidae (Family) - schilbeid catfishes
..Siluridae (Family) - sheatfishes
..Sisoroidea (Superfamily)
..Mochokidae (Family) - squeakers and upside-down catfishes
....Chiloglanidinae (Subfamily) - African suckermouths
....Mochokinae (Subfamily) - squeakers
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
Regan, 1912, orth. corr.
Original name & rank
:
Regan, 1912: 36. ["
Mochocidae
"].
Subsequent spelling
:
Jordan, 1923: 150 ("Mochokidæ").
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Attributes
Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2]
Ref:
R. van der Laan et al. 2014.
Zootaxa
3882
(2)
: 52 ("corrected").
Types
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Mochokinae
(Subfamily)
Regan, 1912
Ref:
R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021
: (4 Feb 2025).
[inferred]
Type
:
Mochokus
(Genus)
Joannis, 1835
Ref:
R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021
: 20 May 2025; [<10 Jun 2025].
[inferred]
Synonyms
Synonymous name
:
Synodidae
(Family)
Ref:
R.A. Fritzsche, 1982
: 880.
Invalid senior subjective synonym
:
Synodontidae
(Family)
Bleeker, 1862, nom. illeg.
Ref:
R.L. Carroll, 1988
: 606.
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
rugzwemmende meervallen
Ref:
B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
squeakers and upside-down catfishes
Ref:
W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998
: 2461 ("squeakers and unside-down catfishes"); ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
:
squeakers
Ref:
J.S. Nelson et al., 2016
: 227.
:
upside-down catfishes
Ref:
J.S. Nelson et al., 2016
: 227.
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21 Sep 2025