Family Clariidae Bonaparte 1845

Heterobranchia Latreille 1825:125 [ref. 31889] (tribe)? Macropteronotus [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Clariadini Bonaparte 1845:387 [ref. 32998] (subfamily) Clarias [ Clarias inferable from the stem?; stem corrected to Clari- by Bonaparte 1846:5 [ref. 519], confirmed by Günther 1864:13 [ref. 1974] and by Gill 1872:19 [ref. 26254]; changed to Chlariidae by Fowler 1904:499 [ref. 1367] based on Chlarias, confirmed by Jordan 1905:184 [ref. 31955]; not Clariidae in Rotifera = Clariaidae]

Heterobranchoidei Bleeker 1858a:40 [ref. 32230] (family) Heterobranchus [also Bleeker 1858b:33, 37, 41, 333 [ref. 365]; also as phalanx Heterobranchini Bleeker 1858a:40 [ref. 32230] and Bleeker 1858b:335 [ref. 365]]

Uegitglanididae Chardon 1968:223, 232 [ref. 33056] (family) Uegitglanis

Horaglanidinae Jayaram 2006:309 [ref. 28762] (subfamily) Horaglanis