Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Clariidae
Parent taxon: Siluroidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016 and Sereno et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Ailiidae, Akysidae, Amblycipitidae, Amphiliidae, Anchariidae, Ariidae, Arioidea, Auchenipteridae, Austroglanididae, Bagridae, Cetopsidae, Chacidae, Clarioidea, Claroteidae, Cranoglanididae, Doradoidea, Heptapteridae, Heteropneustidae, Horabagridae, Hypsidoroidea, Ictaluridae, Malapteruridae, Mochokidae, Pangasiidae, Pimelodidae, Plotosidae, Pseudopimelodidae, Ritidae, Schilbeidae, Siluridae, Siluriodae, Sisoridae, Sisoroidea
Subtaxa: Clarias Heterobranchus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (7 collections), Djibouti (1), Egypt (38), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (34), Niger (3), Sudan (2), Tanzania (16), Zambia (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Djibouti (1), Kenya (1), Uganda (3)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Ethiopia (2), Kenya (3), Malawi (1), Tanzania (6), Uganda (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Tanzania (5), Uganda (7)
• Miocene of Kenya (7), Saudi Arabia (2), Tunisia (3), Turkey (1), Uganda (3), the United Arab Emirates (1)
• Eocene of Algeria (1), Pakistan (1)
Total: 158 collections including 166 occurrences