Potamosilurus Marceniuk & Menezes, 2007

Marceniuk, Alexandre Pires, Oliveira, Claudio & Ferraris Jr, Carl J., 2024, A new classification of the family Ariidae (Osteichthyes: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes) based on combined analyses of morphological and molecular data, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (2), pp. 426-476 : 473

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad078

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11282746

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F32B77-FFC8-FF8E-0EDF-FED0FC444EE5

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scientific name

Potamosilurus Marceniuk & Menezes, 2007
status

 

Potamosilurus Marceniuk & Menezes, 2007 View in CoL View at ENA

MP 99, BI 1, ML 99

( Figs 1–3 View Figure 1 View Figure 2 View Figure 3 , 38H View Figure 38 and 53 View Figure 53 )

Type species: Hemipimelodus macrorhynchus Weber, 1913 .

Diagnosis

Lateral ethmoid as main component of bony bridge formed by lateral ethmoid and frontal (15, 1> 0); accessory tooth plates absent (58, 1> 0); contact face for articulation of transcapular process with basioccipital large and depressed (85, 0> 1).

Ambiguous optimization: Mesethmoid medial notch indistinct, obscured by bone deposition (1, 1> 2); mesethmoid median portion moderately wide (2, 2> 1); dorsal crest of hyomandibula short and high (141, 0> 1); adipose-fin base moderately long (222, 1> 2).

Included species

Potamosilurus coatesi Kailola, 1990

Potamosilurus macrorhynchus Weber, 1913 View in CoL

Potamosilurus robertsi Kailola, 1990 * sedis mutabilis Potamosilurus velutinus Weber, 1907 .

Habitat and distribution: Freshwater, southern New Guinea ( Fig. 38 View Figure 38 ).

Remarks

Potamosilurus is recognized as a valid genus, as defined by Marceniuk and Menezes (2007) excluding Papuarius latirostris , which is assigned to a new genus based on the results of the total-evidence analysis.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Siluriformes

Family

Ariidae

Loc

Potamosilurus Marceniuk & Menezes, 2007

Marceniuk, Alexandre Pires, Oliveira, Claudio & Ferraris Jr, Carl J. 2024
2024
Loc

Potamosilurus robertsi

Kailola 1990
1990
Loc

Potamosilurus macrorhynchus

Weber 1913
1913
Loc

Potamosilurus velutinus

Weber 1907
1907
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