I have dissected specimens purchased from fish markets in Sumatra before, and their guts were full of very fine detritus (looks like substrate from large rivers). They probably ingested the substrate for the small invertebrates buried in them. The size of their mouths suggest that they can't eat ...

Lin, C-H, Y-C Tseng, H-C Ho, DP Mediodia, C-H Lee, S-H Yang & C-H Chang, 2025. Taxonomic review of the sea catfish family Ariidae in Taiwan. Marine Research 5:75–140.

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The family Ariidae comprises bottom-dwelling fishes inhabiting tropical and subtropical coasts in marine and brackish ...

Kerniske, FF, RH Dalcin, LM Sousa & RF Artoni, 2025. Geometric morphometrics reveal a potential hybridization zone in endemic species of Hypancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the lower and middle rio Xingu. Neotropical Ichthyology 23: e240107.

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he Volta Grande do Xingu, one of ...

Jawad, L, AM Al-dirawi, SS Güçlü & OF Al-sheikhly, 2025. The first report of non-indigenous catfish, Bagarius bagarius (Family: Sisoridae) in the inland waters of northeastern Iraq. Acta Aquatica Turcica 21: 179–187.

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A single specimen of Bagarius bagarius (Hamilton, 1822), a ...

Ferraz, JD, ACR Casimiro, LR Jarduli, DAZ Garcia, AS Tarkan, JR Britton & ML Orsi, 2025. Why they coexist? Ecomorphology and dietary analyses reveal trophic niche segregation in two sympatric non-native catfishes in a Neotropical river. Hydrobiologia doi:10.1007/s10750-025-05846-w.

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Not sure if I’m seeing it right, but if the fish are swimming side by side and occasionally shuddering, I’ve seen this in a number of bagrids. Not sure if it’s an agonistic display or a prelude to spawning.

da Silva Marques, R, I Ohara, & OA Shibatta, 2025, Cephalic musculature of the Pacman catfish Lophiosilurus alexandri Steindachner, 1876 (Siluriformes, Pseudopimelodidae). Journal of Morphology 286: e70056.

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The cephalic musculature of the Pacman catfish Lophiosilurus alexandri ( L ...

Jungwirth, A, JN Kern, M Siddiqui, A Chiang, N Eisen, E Lac, G Wilkinson & RJ Riley, 2025. Nuanced effects of relative body size on social motivation in a highly gregarious catfish. Behavioural Processes doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2025.105218.

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Many factors affect the social strategies that ...

That said, Inland Water Biology is a hybrid journal, so the name will become available once the print copy comes out.

Mejia. E, GA Ferraro & ICA Souto-Santos, 2025. A new species of whiptail catfish Rineloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Macaé and São João river basins, southeastern Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology 23:e240087.

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A new species of Rineloricaria from the São João and Macaé river ...

Usually takes a while to resolve DOIs. If there is no ZooBank LSID in the paper, then the name is not available anyway.

Would using a VPN solve some of the problems?

Kubicek, KM, R Britz & KW Conway, 2025. Heterochrony leads to evolutionary novelty: the catfish pectoral-fin spine (Teleostei: Siluriformes). Biology Letters 21: 20250038.

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Studies of sequence heterochrony have revealed changes in developmental timing during skeletogenesis, which are ...

Jools wrote: 14 May 2025, 10:59 If anyone can share a copy of the paper, that'd be helpful - cheers,

Jools

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If you look at the photo on page 5 of the book, the species being studied isn't even M. leucophasis, but either M. cavasius or M. bleekeri.

Three strikes. I am moving this out of the Science News forum.

Posting about this book is like posting about the crappy self-published books on corydoradines one finds for sale in Amazon or posting about a paper published in a predatory journal.

Huang, R-R, J-M Chen, H-M Li, H Cheng & R-Y Zhang, 2025. Genetic structure of the cave-dwelling catfish Pterocryptis anomala (Siluriformes: Siluridae) in Southwest China. Animals 15: 1202.

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The mountainous regions of Southwest China are biodiversity hotspots where geographical ...

Singh, P & L Kosygin, 2025. Glyptothorax palakkadiensis , a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Kerala, Western Ghats, India. Journal of Natural History, 59: 1383–1393.

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Glyptothorax palakkadiensis , a new sisorid catfish, is described from the Chalakudy drainage in ...

Silva GH, JO Zeni JO & F Langeani F, 2025. ­Head morphology and diet of whiptail catfishes (Loricariidae: Loricariinae). Neotropical Ichthyology 23:e240113.

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Adaptations in the head structures of fishes can influence food item selection and consumption in aquatic ecosystems. In this ...

Bronson, AW & MLJ Stiassny MLJ, 2025. Novel nasal anatomy suggests enhanced olfactory acuity in auchenoglanidid catfishes (Siluriformes: Auchenoglanididae). Ichthyology & Herpetology 113:233–243.

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We describe the olfactory chamber and histology of the olfactory epithelium in the ...

Bignotto, TS, HB de Souza, RC da Silva Bronzim, TC Maniglia & D Baumgartner, 2025. Integrative morphometric and molecular analyses reveal possible genetic contamination of silver catfish populations of the genus Rhamdia in Neotropical River basins. Journal of Fish Biology DOI:10.1111/jfb.70057 ...

Tencatt, L, WM Ohara, V de Carvalho, S Grant & MR de Britto, 2025. Two exquisite new species of Hoplisoma (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) from the rio Tapajós basin, Brazil, with a discussion on the morphology of the mesethmoid within Corydoradinae, Neotropical Ichthyology, 23(1) DOI:10.1590/1982 ...

GdSdCe Silva, MH Sabaj, KR de Carvalho & C Oliveira. Integrative taxonomy reveals a new species of Imparfinis (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from the upper Xingu River basin. Ichthyology & Herpetology 113: 143-153.

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Imparfinis is a genus of small catfishes with 21 valid species broadly ...

Matoso DA, HCMd Silva, AL Ferreira Júnior, F Porto-Forest, R Utsunomia, FDd Prado & RF Artoni, 2025. Is there hidden genetic variability in the species of Steindachneridion Garavello, 2005 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae)? PeerJ 13:e18193

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Background
The genus Steindachneridion , which ...

Vijayakrishnan, B & GA Shinde, 2025. Gangetic Glyptothorax (Siluriformes: Sisoridae): two new species and revalidation of Glyptothorax dakpathari Tilak & Husain 1976. Zootaxa 5613: 500–518.

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Glyptothorax bhurainu sp. nov. and Glyptothorax himalaicus sp. nov. are described from the ...

Ríos, N, BG Pardo, C Fernández, JA Alvarez-Dios, P Martínez, C Bouza & G García, 2025. Transcriptomic divergence and associated markers between genomic lineages of silver catfish ( Rhamdia quelen ). Ecology and Evolution 15: e71021.

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Rhamdia quelen is a catfish widely distributed ...

Shibatta, OA & HSDS Filho, 2025. Osteology of the long-whiskered catfish Iheringichthys labrosus Lütken, 1874 (Siluriformes, Pimelodidae) from the upper Paraná River basin, southern Brazil. Zootaxa 5601: 429–450.

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Iheringichthys labrosus is a catfish from the Paraná River basin with a ...

Zimmermann, H, KM Sefc, R Blažek, V Bartáková, A Bryjová, C Katongo, S Koblmüller & M Reichard, 2025. Mixed parentage broods indicate group spawning in the brood parasitic cuckoo catfish. Molecular Ecology 34: e17692.

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Obligate brood parasites delegate the workload of costly parental ...

I am referring to creating and maintaining the database. Some fields (e.g., conservation status) are populated by data from existing databases. It would be quite a bit of work to create and maintain a database. There are also very many species with poorly-understood distributions that are likely to ...