Auchenipteridae Bleeker, 1862

Birindelli, José L. O., 2014, Phylogenetic relationships of the South American Doradoidea (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes), Neotropical Ichthyology 12 (3), pp. 451-564 : 533

Auchenipteridae Bleeker, 1862

Included taxa. Auchenipterinae and Centromochlinae .

Diagnosis. The Auchenipteridae is diagnosed by the following characters: adipose fin short, thin and teardrop-shaped (#5: 0>2, also present in some non-Auchenipteridae catfishes), maxillary barbel moving vertically (#13: 0>1, exclusive), suborbital groove present (#14: 0>1, exclusive), reproduction by insemination (#43: 0>1, exclusive), posterior testicular lobes modified into hypertrophied storage bags (#44: 0>1, reversed in Asterophysus , Centromochlus , Glanidium , Tatia , and modified in Ageneiosus and Auchenipterus ), urogenital opening at base of first anal-fin rays in males (#46: 0>1, exclusive), urogenital opening wide in females (#50: 0>1, exclusive), posterolateral margin of epiotic participating in the border of cephalic shield (#84: 0>1, reversed in Asterophysus and Liosomadoras , present also in some doradids), infraorbital 1 participating in orbital margin (#97: 0>1, present also in Astrodoradinae , and in the doradids Acanthodoras , Agamyxis , Lithodoras , and Pterodoras ), vertical rows of neuromasts dorsal to lateral line present (#117: 0>1, reversed in Ageneiosus , Auchenipterus , Entomocorus , Epapterus , Gelanoglanis , Pseudepapterus , Spinipterus , and Tetranematichthys ), posterodorsal process of hyomandibula present (#159: 0>1, reversed in Asterophysus , Auchenipterus , Entomocorus , Epapterus , Gelanoglanis , and Pseudepapterus ), suprapreopercle present (#167: 0>1, reversed in Liosomadoras , present also in some non-Auchenipteridae catfishes), first hypobranchial cylindrical (#191: 0>1, reversed in Auchenipterus , Entomocorus , Epapterus , Glanidium, Psedepapterus , present also in some doradids), first free vertebra eighth (#217: 1>3, reversed in Gelanoglanis , Pseudepapterus , modified in Auchenipterichthys , Centromochlus , Tocantinsia , Trachelyopterichthys , Trachelyopterus , and Trachycorystes , present also in some non-Auchenipteridae catfishes), lateral process of basipterygium with well-developed cartilaginous extension (#285: 0>1, reversed in Ageneiosus , Auchenipterus , Entomocorus , Epapterus , Pseudepapterus , Tetranematichthys , present also in some non-Auchenipteridae catfishes), five to eight branched anal-fin rays (#287: 1>0, modified in most auchenipterids, present also in some non-Auchenipteridae catfishes).