Long-whiskered Catfish
Pimelodidae, commonly known as the long-whiskered catfishes, is a family of catfishes (order Siluriformes). Pimelodidae has undergone much revision. Currently, the family contains about 30 genera and about 90 recognized and known but unnamed species. The low-eye catfish (previously family Hypophthalmidae), and thus the genus Hypophthalmus which contains four species, was reclassified with the Pimelodids. This family previously included fish that are now classified under Pseudopimelodidae (previously subfamily Pseudopimelodinae) and Heptapteridae (previously subfamily Rhamdiinae). This family also previously included Conorhynchos conirostris, currently incertae sedis. However, a molecular analysis has shown unequivocal support for monophyly of the individual families and the genus Conorhynchos into a clade called Pimelodoidea, including Pimelodidae + Pseudopimelodidae and Heptapteridae + Conorhynchos
Long-whiskered Catfish
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