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Siluridae

Sheatfishes

107 species

  1. 1Belodontichthys dinema (Bleeker, 1851)fresh · tropical
  2. 2Belodontichthys truncatus Kottelat & Ng, 1999fresh · tropical
  3. 3Ceratoglanis pachynema Ng, 1999 · Club-barbel sheatfishfresh · tropical
  4. 4Ceratoglanis scleronema (Bleeker, 1863)fresh · tropical
  5. 5Hemisilurus heterorhynchus (Bleeker, 1854)fresh · tropical
  6. 6Hemisilurus mekongensis Bornbusch & Lundberg, 1989fresh · tropical
  7. 7Hemisilurus moolenburghi Weber & de Beaufort, 1913fresh · tropical
  8. 8Kryptopterus baramensis Ng, 2002fresh · tropical
  9. 9Kryptopterus bicirrhis (Valenciennes, 1840) · Glass catfishfresh · tropical
  10. 10Kryptopterus cheveyi Durand, 1940fresh · tropical
  11. 11Kryptopterus cryptopterus (Bleeker, 1851)fresh · tropical
  12. 12Kryptopterus dissitus Ng, 2001 · Indochinese sheatfishfresh · tropical
  13. 13Kryptopterus geminus Ng, 2003fresh · brackish · tropical
  14. 14Kryptopterus hesperius Ng, 2002 · Maeklong sheatfishfresh · tropical
  15. 15Kryptopterus lais (Bleeker, 1851)fresh · tropical
  16. 16Kryptopterus limpok (Bleeker, 1852) · Long-barbel sheatfishfresh · tropical
  17. 17Kryptopterus lumholtzi Rendahl, 1922fresh · tropical
  18. 18Kryptopterus macrocephalus (Bleeker, 1858) · Striped glass catfishfresh · tropical
  19. 19Kryptopterus minor Roberts, 1989 · Ghost Catfishfresh · tropical
  20. 20Kryptopterus mononema (Bleeker, 1846)fresh · tropical
  21. 21Kryptopterus palembangensis (Bleeker, 1852)fresh · tropical
  22. 22Kryptopterus paraschilbeides Ng, 2003fresh · tropical
  23. 23Kryptopterus piperatus Ng, Wirjoatmodjo & Hadiaty, 2004fresh · tropical
  24. 24Kryptopterus sabanus (Inger & Chin, 1959)fresh · tropical
  25. 25Kryptopterus schilbeides (Bleeker, 1858)fresh · tropical
  26. 26Kryptopterus vitreolus Ng & Kottelat, 2013fresh · tropical
  27. 27Micronema hexapterus (Bleeker, 1851)fresh · tropical
  28. 28Micronema moorei (Smith, 1945)fresh · tropical
  29. 29Micronema platypogon (Ng, 2004)fresh · tropical
  30. 30Ompok argestes Sudasinghe & Meegaskumbura, 2016 · Wetzone butter catfishfresh · tropical
  31. 31Ompok bimaculatus (Bloch, 1794) · Butter catfishfresh · brackish · tropical
  32. 32Ompok binotatus Ng, 2002fresh · tropical
  33. 33Ompok borneensis (Steindachner, 1901)fresh · tropical
  34. 34Ompok brevirictus Ng & Hadiaty, 2009fresh · tropical
  35. 35Ompok canio (Hamilton, 1822)fresh · subtropical
  36. 36Ompok ceylonensis (Günther, 1864) · Dryzone butter catfishfresh · tropical
  37. 37Ompok eugeneiatus (Vaillant, 1893) · Malay glass catfishfresh · tropical
  38. 38Ompok fumidus Tan & Ng, 1996fresh · brackish · tropical
  39. 39Ompok goae (Haig, 1952)fresh · tropical
  40. 40Ompok hypophthalmus (Bleeker, 1846)fresh · tropical
  41. 41Ompok javanensis (Hardenberg, 1938)fresh · tropical
  42. 42Ompok jaynei Fowler, 1905fresh · brackish · tropical
  43. 43Ompok karunkodu Ng, 2013fresh · tropical
  44. 44Ompok leiacanthus (Bleeker, 1853)fresh · tropical
  45. 45Ompok malabaricus (Valenciennes, 1840) · Goan catfishfresh · tropical
  46. 46Ompok miostoma (Vaillant, 1902)fresh · tropical
  47. 47Ompok pabda (Hamilton, 1822) · Pabdah catfishfresh · tropical
  48. 48Ompok pabo (Hamilton, 1822) · Pabo catfishfresh · tropical
  49. 49Ompok pinnatus Ng, 2003 · Long-fin glass catfishfresh · brackish · tropical
  50. 50Ompok platyrhynchus Ng & Tan, 2004fresh · tropical
  51. 51Ompok pluriradiatus Ng, 2002fresh · tropical
  52. 52Ompok rhadinurus Ng, 2003fresh · tropical
  53. 53Ompok siluroides Lacepède, 1803fresh · tropical
  54. 54Ompok sindensis (Day, 1877)fresh · tropical
  55. 55Ompok supernus Ng, 2008fresh · tropical
  56. 56Ompok urbaini (Fang & Chaux, 1949)fresh · tropical
  57. 57Ompok weberi (Hardenberg, 1936)fresh · tropical
  58. 58Phalacronotus apogon (Bleeker, 1851)fresh · tropical
  59. 59Phalacronotus bleekeri (Günther, 1864)fresh · tropical
  60. 60Phalacronotus micronemus (Bleeker, 1846)fresh · tropical
  61. 61Phalacronotus parvanalis (Inger & Chin, 1959)fresh · tropical
  62. 62Pinniwallago kanpurensis Gupta, Jayaram & Hajela, 1981fresh · tropical
  63. 63Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1934)fresh · subtropical
  64. 64Pterocryptis barakensis Vishwanath & Nebeshwar Sharma, 2006fresh · tropical
  65. 65Pterocryptis berdmorei (Blyth, 1860)fresh · tropical
  66. 66Pterocryptis bokorensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1937)fresh · tropical
  67. 67Pterocryptis buccata Ng & Kottelat, 1998 · Cave sheatfishfresh · tropical
  68. 68Pterocryptis burmanensis (Thant, 1966)fresh · subtropical
  69. 69Pterocryptis cochinchinensis (Valenciennes, 1840)fresh · tropical
  70. 70Pterocryptis crenula Ng & Freyhof, 2001fresh · tropical
  71. 71Pterocryptis cucphuongensis (Mai, 1978)fresh · tropical
  72. 72Pterocryptis furnessi (Fowler, 1905)fresh · tropical
  73. 73Pterocryptis gangelica Peters, 1861fresh · subtropical
  74. 74Pterocryptis indica (Datta, Barman & Jayaram, 1987)fresh · tropical
  75. 75Pterocryptis inusitata Ng, 1999fresh · tropical
  76. 76Pterocryptis taytayensis (Herre, 1924)fresh · tropical
  77. 77Pterocryptis torrentis (Kobayakawa, 1989)fresh · tropical
  78. 78Pterocryptis verecunda Ng & Freyhof, 2001fresh · tropical
  79. 79Pterocryptis wynaadensis (Day, 1873)fresh · tropical
  80. 80Silurichthys citatus Ng & Kottelat, 1997fresh · tropical
  81. 81Silurichthys gibbiceps Ng & Ng, 1998fresh · tropical
  82. 82Silurichthys hasseltii Bleeker, 1858fresh · tropical
  83. 83Silurichthys indragiriensis Volz, 1904fresh · tropical
  84. 84Silurichthys ligneolus Ng & Tan, 2011 · Brown leaf catfishfresh · tropical
  85. 85Silurichthys marmoratus Ng & Ng, 1998fresh · tropical
  86. 86Silurichthys phaiosoma (Bleeker, 1851)fresh · tropical
  87. 87Silurichthys sanguineus Roberts, 1989fresh · tropical
  88. 88Silurichthys schneideri Volz, 1904fresh · tropical
  89. 89Silurus aristotelis Garman, 1890fresh · temperate
  90. 90Silurus asotus Linnaeus, 1758 · Amur catfishfresh · temperate
  91. 91Silurus biwaensis (Tomoda, 1961) · Eurasian catfishfresh · temperate
  92. 92Silurus chantrei Sauvage, 1882fresh · temperate
  93. 93Silurus duanensis Hu, Lan & Zhang, 2004fresh · tropical
  94. 94Silurus glanis Linnaeus, 1758 · Wels catfishfresh · brackish · temperate · full sheet
  95. 95Silurus grahami Regan, 1907fresh · subtropical
  96. 96Silurus lanzhouensis Chen, 1977fresh · temperate
  97. 97Silurus lithophilus (Tomoda, 1961)fresh · temperate
  98. 98Silurus mento Regan, 1904 · Kunming catfishfresh
  99. 99Silurus meridionalis Chen, 1977 · Chinese large-mouth catfishfresh · subtropical
  100. 100Silurus microdorsalis (Mori, 1936)fresh · temperate
  101. 101Silurus soldatovi Nikolskii & Soin, 1948 · Soldatov's catfishfresh · temperate
  102. 102Silurus triostegus Heckel, 1843 · Tigris catfishfresh · subtropical
  103. 103Wallago attu (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) · Wallagofresh · brackish · tropical · full sheet
  104. 104Wallago hexanema (Kner, 1866)fresh · temperate
  105. 105Wallago leerii Bleeker, 1851fresh · tropical
  106. 106Wallago maculatus Inger & Chin, 1959fresh · tropical
  107. 107Wallago micropogon Ng, 2004fresh · tropical

Source: FishBase v25.04 (fishbase.org), via cboettig/fishbase, fetched 2026-10-18.