Catfishes, a Highly Diversified Group

Gloria Arratia is a leading scientist on the origin, diversification and systematics of the largest fish group, Teleostei. She retired from Humboldt University, Berlin and is currently associated with the University of Kansas. She has been awarded numerous professional prizes, with the first in 1994 (Humboldt Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) and most recently in 2022 (Joseph S. Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award in Ichthyology, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists). A book, Origin and Phylogenetic Interrelationships of Teleosts Honoring Gloria Arratia by J. S. Nelson, H.-P. Schultze and M. V. H. Wilson (eds.), was published in 2010. She is Editor of the Mesozoic Fishes books series and Associate Editor of several journals. She is editor of nine books, including Catfishes (2003), and author of many publications concerning high-level teleostean ranks, 13 new families, 51 new genera, and 69 new species. She is a member of the Academia of Sciences of Chile.Roberto E. Reis is Full Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and a leading scientist on South American ichthyology. He is the Regional Chair of the Freshwater Fish Specialist Group of IUCN for South America and a founding member and twice Past-President of the Brazilian Society of Ichthyology. He is Associate Editor of Ichthyology & Herpetology and of other journals and he has edited three other highly cited books. Dr. Reis has extensive experience in the area of ichthyology, mainly the discovery, documentation and description of biodiversity and the study of phylogenetic relationships using phenotypic and molecular evidence. He has discovered and described with coauthors and students 12 new genera and 141 new species of fishes. In 2021 he received the Robert H. Gibbs Award for the outstanding body of published work in systematic ichthyology from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.

• Foreword. Topics and Contributors. Acknowledgements. SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION. 1. An Introduction to Catfish Evolution and Phylogeny. SECTION 2: FOSSIL RECORD. 2 Diversification and Evolution of European Fossil Catfishes. 3. The African Fossil Catfishes. 4. Siluriformes From the Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene of Bolivia. 5. Siluriforms and the South American Fossil Record: Their Significance and the Origin and Evolutionary Radiation of the Group. SECTION 3: PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AND CLASSIFICATION. 6. Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolution of the Major Groups of Siluriformes. 7. The Trichomycteridae: An Overview of the Systematics and Classification of the Family. 8. Phylogeny and Classification of the Family Callichthyidae (Armored Catfishes). 9. Habitats and History of Scoloplacid Catfishes (Loricarioidea). 10. Phylogeny and Classification of the Family Loricariidae. 11. Phylogeny and Classification of Pimelodidae. 12. Diversity and Phylogeny of Pseudopimelodidae: The Neotropical Bumblebee Catfishes. 13. Phylogeny and Classification of Heptapteridae (Pimelodoidea). 14. The State of the Art of the Family Doradidae. 15. Biogeography and Evolution of Auchenipteridae: A Molecular and Morphological Perspective. 16. Phylogeny and Classification of the Loach Catfishes, Amphiliidae. 17. New Insights into the Southern African Sand-Catlets Genus Zaireichthys (Amphiliidae: Leptoglanidinae). 18. Phylogeny and Classification of the Sisoridae. Index.