FAMILY: family Ictaluridae.

Ictaluridae Gill 1861 (Actinopteri: Siluriformes)

  • Gill, Theodore Nicholas. 1861. "Catalogue of the fishes of the eastern coast of North America, from Greenland to Georgia". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 13:1-63 - (ffm00391)

Original description as: Ictaluri (group).

Type: Ictalurus Rafinesque, 1820.

Common names: North American catfishes.

Ameiurus, Ictalurus, Prietella, Pylodictis.

References (1):

van der Laan, Richard & W.N. Eschmeyer, R. Fricke. 2014. "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882(1):230. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 - [abstract] · (ffm00662)