The family Trichomycteridae is one of the most diverse groups of freshwater catfishes in
South and Central America with eight subfamilies, 41 genera and more than 300 valid …

The family-group names of animals (superfamily, family, subfamily, supertribe, tribe and
subtribe) are regulated by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Family names …

A checklist of Recent and fossil catfishes (Order Siluriformes) is presented, summarizing
taxonomic literature published through 2005. From 4624 nominal species group names and …

A phylogenetic analysis of nearly all genera of the Hypostominae and the Ancistrinae is
provided based on osteology, external anatomy, and digestive tract anatomy. The results …

Higher-level relationships among catfishes were investigated by parsimony, maximum
likelihood and Bayesian analyses of two nuclear genes across 110 catfish species …

The species of the genus Trichomycterus inhabiting the laguna dos Patos system are
reviewed and five species are recognized. Trichomycterus tropeiro Ferrer & Malabarba has …

The genus Otocinclus Cope (1872) of the siluriform family Loricariidae is diagnosed as
monophyletic on the basis of shared derived characters of the cranial and hyobranchial …

The skeletal muscles of the dorsolateral region of the head of the Nematogenyidae and
representatives of the all major clades of the Trichomycteridae are described and illustrated …

Trichomycterus comprises about 170 valid species, but its monophyly has been challenged
in the last decades. Bayesian Inference and Maximum Likelihood analyses comprehending …

The relationships among families of catfishes are poorly understood and have yet to be the
subject of a comprehensive investigation with molecular data. Existing phylogenetic …