CRANOGLANIDIDAE Myers, 1931

Published, First, 2007, Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types, Zootaxa 1418, pp. 1-628 : 164-165

CRANOGLANIDIDAE Myers, 1931

Cranoglanidae Myers, 1931: 261. Type genus: Cranoglanis Peters, 1881 .

Taxonomic overview: Jayaram (1956b); Ng & Kottelat (2000d).

1 genus, 3 species; no named fossil taxa.

CRANOGLANIS Peters, 1881 Cranoglanis Peters, 1881b: 1030 . Type species: Cranoglanis sinensis Peters, 1881 . Type by monotypy. Gender: Masculine.

Anopleutropius Vaillant, 1893b: 198 . Type species: Anopleutropius henrici Vaillant, 1893 . Type by monotypy. Gen- der: Masculine.

Pseudeutropichthys Koller, 1926: 74 . Type species: Pseudeutropichthys multiradiatus Koller, 1926 . Type by original designation. Gender: Masculine. Also appeared in Koller (1927: 28).

Remarks: Considered to be a monotypic genus by Liu et al. (2005), with only Cranoglanis bouderius as valid.

Cranoglanis bouderius (Richardson, 1846)

Bagrus bouderius Richardson, 1846: 283 . Type locality: Lian Jiang, Lianzhou, Guangdong Prov., China. Neotype: ZMB 11325, designated by Ng & Kottelat (2000d: 851). Originally as? Bagrus (an Pimelodus ?) bouderius . Based solely on an illustration by Reeves; which was reproduced in Jayaram (1956b: pl. 18) and Whitehead (1970: pl. 19b).

Macrones sinensis Bleeker, 1872: 153 . Type locality: Lian Jiang , Guangdon Prov., Lianzhou, China. Neotype: ZMB 11325 designated by Ng & Kottelat (2000d: 851). Based originally on a painting, which was reproduced in Jayaram & Boeseman (1976: pl. 1).

Cranoglanis sinensis Peters, 1881b: 1030 , [pl. 1] (fig. 1). Type locality: Lian Jiang, Lianzhou, Guangdong Prov., China. Holotype: ZMB 11325. Preoccupied in Cranoglanis by Macrones sinensis Bleeker, 1872 .

Distribution: Southern China.

Cranoglanis henrici (Vaillant, 1893)

Anopleutropius henrici Vaillant, 1893b: 199 . Type locality: Rivière Noir , Tonkin [ Vietnam]. Syntypes: MNHN 1892-0259 (1), MNHN 1892-0260 (1).

Distribution: Red River basin, northern Vietnam and southern China (Ng & Kottelat, 2000d).

Cranoglanis multiradiatus (Koller, 1926)

Pseudeutropichthys multiradiatus Koller, 1926: 74 . Type locality: Kan-Kongfluss auf Hainan [ China]. Syntypes: NMW 5059–5061 (3). Also appeared as new in Koller (1927: 29, pl. 1, fig. 2).

Distribution: Hainan Island, China.