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Helicophagus Bleeker, 1857

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
Bleeker, P. (1857). Zesde bijdrage tot de kennis der vischfauna van Sumatra. Visschen van Padang, Troessan, Priaman, Sibogha en Palembang. <em>Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae.</em> v. 3 (art. 9): 1-50.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Siluriformes
family
Pangasiidae
genus
Helicophagus

Name

Synonyms
Helicophagys Weber & Beaufort, 1911
Homonyms
Helicophagus Bleeker, 1857
Common names
Peces gato tiburón in Spanish
Геликофаги in Russian
ปลาสวายหนู ฯลฯ in Thai

Bibliographic References

  1. Acta Soc. Indo-Neêrl., 3, no. 9, 8
  2. Bleeker, P. (1857). Zesde bijdrage tot de kennis der vischfauna van Sumatra. Visschen van Padang, Troessan, Priaman, Sibogha en Palembang. <em>Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae.</em> v. 3 (art. 9): 1-50.
  3. Bleeker, P., 1857: Zesde bijdrage tot de kennis der vischfauna van Sumatra. Visschen van Padang, Troessan, Priaman, Sibogha en Palembang. Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neerlandicae, vol. 3, art. 9. 1-50.
  4. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
  5. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
  6. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  7. FishBase
  8. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.
  9. Gustiano, Rudhy, and Laurent Pouyaud, 2008: Systematic revision of the genera of Pangasiidae (Siluriformes, Ostariophysi). Indonesian Aquaculture Journal, vol. 3, no. 1. 13-22.
  10. Kottelat, Maurice, 2013: The fishes of the inland waters of southeast Asia: a catalogue and core bibliography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, supplement no. 27. 1-663.
  11. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  12. Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
  13. Nomenclator Zoologicus (auth. adjusted as per Eschmeyer)
  14. SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
  15. SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
  16. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
  17. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
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