Batrachocephalus Bleeker, 1846

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 : 454

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11282659

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Batrachocephalus Bleeker, 1846
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( Figs 1–3 View Figure 1 View Figure 2 View Figure 3 , 26 View Figure 26 )

Type species: Batrachocephalus ageneiosus Bleeker, 1846 .

Diagnosis

Mesethmoid median portion very wide (2, 0> 2); nasal fan shaped (19, 0> 2); posterior cranial fontanel absent (26, 1> 0); epiphyseal bar indistinct (28, 0> 1); sphenotic long and narrow (35, 1> 0); posterior portion of anterior ceratohyal columnar and very thick (151, 0> 1); posterior ceratohyal long (153, 0> 1); anterior margin of urohyal not notched (154, 0> 1); second dorsal cleithral process posteriorly directed and parallel to posterior process (226, 1> 0); maxillary barbel absent (234, 0> 1).

Ambiguous optimization: Anteroventral portion of opercle subtriangular (127, 2> 3).

Included species

Batrachocephalus mino Hamilton, 1822 .

Habitat and distribution: Brackish and marine waters, South and Southeast Asia ( Fig. 24 View Figure 24 ).

Remarks

The MP analysis of the data matrix corroborates previous morphological studies ( Marceniuk and Menezes 2007, Marceniuk et al. 2012), both in terms of species composition and the relationship of Batrachocephalus with Ketengus plus Osteogeneiosus , which contrasts with the hypothesis of Kailola (2004),

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Siluriformes

Family

Ariidae

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