Phractura

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Phractura
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Siluriformes
Family: Amphiliidae
Subfamily: Doumeinae
Genus: Phractura
Boulenger, 1900
Type species
Peltura bovei
Perugia, 1892
Species

See text.
Synonyms
  • Peltura Perugia, 1892
  • Paraphractura Boulenger, 1902

Phractura is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Amphiliidae.

Phractura species are elongated fish with a long caudal peduncle and bony scutes on the sides, back, and belly.[1] Phractura species are often associated with vegetation.[1] Phractura species, like other genera in Doumeinae, have a mouth modified into a suckermouth that allows it to clean to the objects and scrape the surface of the substrate.[2]

[edit] Species

Species list according to Ferraris, 2007.[3]

  • Phractura ansorgii Boulenger, 1902
  • Phractura bovei (Perugia, 1892)
  • Phractura brevicauda Boulenger, 1911
  • Phractura clauseni Daget & Stauch, 1963
  • Phractura fasciata Boulenger, 1920
  • Phractura gladysae Pellegrin, 1931
  • Phractura intermedia Boulenger, 1911
  • Phractura lindica Boulenger, 1902
  • Phractura longicauda Boulenger, 1903
  • Phractura macrura Poll, 1967
  • Phractura scaphyrhynchura (Vaillant, 1886)
  • Phractura stiassny Skelton, 2007[4]
  • Phractura tenuicauda (Boulenger, 1902)

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Skelton, Paul H. (1992). "Amphiliidae (French)". Faune des poissons d'eaux douces et saumâtres d'Afrique de l'Ouest Tome 2. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique and O.R.S.T.O.M., Paris, France, 902. 450-467. 
  2. ^ Diogo, Rui; Oliveira, Claudia; Chardon, Michel (January 2000). "On the anatomy and function of the cephalic structures in Phractura (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae), with comments on some striking homoplasies occurring between the Doumeinae and some loricaroid catfishes" (PDF). Belg. J. Zool. 130 (1): 117–130. 
  3. ^ Ferraris, Carl J., Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa 1418: 1–628. 
  4. ^ Skelton, Paul H. (2007). "New species of the amphiliid catfish genera Amphilius, Doumea and Phractura and the taxonomy of Paramphilius from West Central Africa (Siluriformes, Amphiliidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa 1578: 41–68. 
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