BAGRIDAE Bleeker, 1858

Published, First, 2007, Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types, Zootaxa 1418, pp. 1-628 : 81-82

BAGRIDAE Bleeker, 1858

Bagrichthyoidei Bleeker, 1858b: 49, 54. Type genus: Bagrus Bosc, 1816 .

Bagrichthyes Bleeker, 1862 (in Bleeker, 1862–63): 8, 48. Type genus: Bagrichthys Bleeker, 1857 .

Ritae Bleeker, 1862 (in Bleeker, 1862–63): 8. Type genus: Rita Bleeker, 1854 .

Olyrinae Gill, 1893: 132. Type genus: Olyra M’Clelland, 1842 .

Porcinae Fowler, 1915a: 219. Type genus: Porcus Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1809 . Based on a generic name that was placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology, Opinion 1402 (Melville & Smith, 1987) .

Batasinae Tilak, 1967: 431. Type genus: Batasio Blyth, 1860 .

Pelteobagrini Jayaram, 1966b: 1071. Type genus: Pelteobagrus Bleeker, 1865 .

Bagroidinae Jayaram, 1968b: 371. Type genus: Bagroides Bleeker, 1851 .

Taxonomic summaries: Risch (1986, Africa); Chu et al. (1999, China).

Reviews: Jayaram (1955a, genera); Jayaram (1966c, various Asian genera); Jayaram (1966b, African genera); Jayaram (1968b, Japanese, Chinese, Malayan and Indonesian genera); Jayaram (1978a, Chinese species of “ Mystus ”); Risch (1992b, West Africa); Desoutter (1975, Cambodia); Lee & Kim (1990, Korea).

Identification guides: Jayaram (1977d, 1979 South Asia).

Phylogeny: Jayaram (1976); Jayaram & Singh (1982); Mo (1991); Peng et al. (2002, East Asian species); Ng (2003j).

23 genera, 189 species; including 4 fossil genera and 11 fossil species.