Arius Valenciennes, 1840

Marceniuk, Alexandre Pires, Oliveira, Claudio & Ferraris Jr, Carl J., 2024, A new classification of the family Ariidae (Osteichthyes: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes) based on combined analyses of morphological and molecular data, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (2), pp. 426-476 : 452-454

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https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad078

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11282655

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Arius Valenciennes, 1840
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Arius Valenciennes, 1840 View in CoL View at ENA

( Figs 1–2 View Figure 1 View Figure 2 , 24A View Figure 24 – 25 View Figure 25 )

Type species: Pimelodus arius Hamilton, 1822 .

Diagnosis

Bony bridge formed by lateral ethmoid and frontal cylindrical and thin (16, 0> 1); frontal mesial laminar projection absent (23, 1> 0); accessory tooth plates ventral to orbitosphenoid and metapterygoid (62, 0> 1); orbitosphenoid and pterosphenoid lateral expansions slight projections with sinuous lateral face (65, 0> 2); autopalatine very compressed at articulation with lateral ethmoid (108, 0> 1); dorsal crest of premaxilla beginning between lateral one-third or one-half of anterior margin (124, 0> 1); lateral margin of third pharyngobranchial well developed and acute (193, 0> 1).

Ambiguous optimization: Müllerian ramus bone blade evident only in basal third (206, 2> 1).

Included species

Arius acutirostris Day, 1877 * sedis mutabilis

Arius africanus Günther, 1867 * sedis mutabilis

Arius arenarius Müller & Troschel, 1849 * sedis mutabilis Arius arius Hamilton, 1822

Arius brunellii Zollezi, 1939 * sedis mutabilis

Arius burmanicus Day, 1870 * sedis mutabilis

Arius dispar Herre, 1926 View in CoL

454 • Marceniuk et al.

Arius gagora Hamilton, 1822

Arius jatius Hamilton, 1822 * sedis mutabilis

Arius jella Day, 1877 * sedis mutabilis

Arius leptonotacanthus Bleeker, 1849 sedis mutabilis

Arius macronotacanthus Bleeker, 1846 * sedis mutabilis

Arius maculatus Thunberg, 1792

Arius malabaricus Day, 1877 * sedis mutabilis

Arius manillensis Valenciennes, 1840

Arius microcephalus Bleeker, 1855 * sedis mutabilis

Arius nenga Hamilton, 1822 sedis mutabilis

Arius aff. nenga sedis mutabilis

Arius oetik Bleeker, 1846

Arius subrostratus Valenciennes, 1840 * sedis mutabilis

Arius venosus Valenciennes, 1840 * sedis mutabilis.

Habitat and distribution: Fresh and brackish waters, eastern Africa and South to Southeast Asia ( Fig. 24 View Figure 24 ).

Remarks

The genus Arius undoubtedly has the most complex taxonomy of the Ariidae , serving to accommodate taxa without clear affinities elsewhere ( Marceniuk and Menezes2007). Recent morphological studies have recognized the monophyly of Arius with the inclusion of Betancurichthys madagascariensis ( Marceniuk and Menezes 2007, Marceniuk et al. 2012), an arrangement not supported by Betancur-R. (2009), a molecular study that does not recognize the monophyly of Arius . The MP and ML analysis supports the monophyly of Arius without Betancurichthys madagascariensis .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Siluriformes

Family

Ariidae

Loc

Arius Valenciennes, 1840

Marceniuk, Alexandre Pires, Oliveira, Claudio & Ferraris Jr, Carl J. 2024
2024
Loc

Arius dispar

Herre 1926
1926
Loc

Ariina

Bleeker 1858
1858
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