Family Bagridae Bleeker 1852 (naked catfish)

Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Bagridae

Parent taxon: Siluroidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013

See also Casier 1966, Frizzell and Dante 1965, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016 and Sahni and Mishra 1975

Sister taxa: Ailiidae, Akysidae, Amblycipitidae, Amphiliidae, Anchariidae, Ariidae, Arioidea, Auchenipteridae, Austroglanididae, Cetopsidae, Chacidae, Clariidae, Clarioidea, Claroteidae, Cranoglanididae, Doradoidea, Heptapteridae, Heteropneustidae, Horabagridae, Hypsidoroidea, Ictaluridae, Malapteruridae, Mochokidae, Pangasiidae, Pimelodidae, Plotosidae, Pseudopimelodidae, Ritidae, Schilbeidae, Siluridae, Siluriodae, Sisoridae, Sisoroidea

Subtaxa: Auchenoglanis Bagrus Bucklandium Claibornichthys Eomacrones Fajumia Socnopaea

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (3 collections), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), Niger (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Uganda (1)

• Pliocene to Holocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)

• Pliocene of Kenya (2), Malawi (1), Uganda (3)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), Uganda (2)

• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (2), the United Arab Emirates (1)

• Eocene of India (3), Libya (3), Pakistan (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Texas)

• Paleocene of Niger (1)

Total: 41 collections including 46 occurrences

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